"Nurse Jackie" does lesbians right

this is a great show with great characters and personalities.

the story and lines are great too!!  one of the few show shows im watching this summer.

LOVE THIS SHOW. 

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So, we finally got to see who raised the stress-induced breast-grabbing doctor! I thought that the lesbians were great, but the son they produced (and that his "vagina mom" wanted
to treat her) remains a horror show. But, in this episode, we finally got to see the goofy sweetness we'd been told he has for ourselves.

That talk with his "other mother" about how he always loved her more was too sweet, especially Swoosie Kurtz's character telling him how it had been his birth mother's plan to give her the fun stuff so that they could form a strong parental bond. At the same time, they didn't let him out of being the same old Coop who makes my skin crawl, what with grabbing the senior doctor's breast while his birth mother was on the table and all.

I thought this was far and away the best episode of the series to date.

I finally bought how Jackie and the doc who throws her designer duds out rather than take them to the dry cleaner's could be real friends. I really loved the scene between the pharmacist and nurse trainee Zoe. And I saw how the pharmacist could be someone Jackie might actually care for (rather than just care about as her "connection") in this episode, even as she was desperate to keep the connection to her little girl going when she got a too quick phone call from home in the midst of the roughest of shifts.

And I am so glad that Pharmacist Feelgood seemingly got through to the mess that is Zoe re. it not all being about her. If he hadn't, I might well have broken a perfectly good flat screen trying to reach in to literally shake some sense into her and/or yank her out of the show for good. Nurse Jackie clearly has more patience than I do!

I haven't even gotten to the primary storyline! Judith Ivey was terrific--just the right blend of nothing-you-can-do-to-me-now sass and vulnerability. I absolutely loved hearing her engage with Anna Daveare Smith's nurse-administrator (Akelitis (sp?) does kind of sound like a disease, doesn't it?), and her comments to and about the cat guy were both hilarious and spot-on. And doing the deed via toast was a smart twist on viewer expectations (though I'm not sure how fast the morphine would work if ingested orally like that).

(Btw, am I the only one who thinks that maybe Akelitis (sp?) wasn't really in the hurry she was pretending to be to get the woman up to the hospice unit? I think I saw the suggestion of a conspiratorial smile as she warned the assembled nurses that there'd better not be anything but saline in the IV.)

The first scene with Jackie's old nursing buddy was arguably the saddest for me. Such a vulnerable position to be in, which Ivey managed to communicate through the woman's pluck and humor without giving in to melodrama or over-acting. Because of how well that scene was done, when Jackie later said that the dying nurse would have done the same for her if the situation had been reversed, you didn't have to believe Jackie to know it was the truth.

"I am not a champion of lost causes but of causes not yet won."
Norman Thomas as quoted by Sonia Satomayor in her Princeton yearbook

lol i wish i had showtime :/

This episode should become a classic. All of the characters are getting more complex and interesting.
Eve Best is extraordinary. Nurse Jackie is brilliant, but Dr. O'Hara is almost her match. Those little scenes in the ladies bathroom: "Do you need my help?" " No, thanks, I can do this myself." were so subtle. And if I'm wrong about sensing subtext between them, then I'll turn in my rainbow flag.

Whenever Dr. O takes either Jackie or Zoe in their hospital jammies to dinner in what appears to be a 4 star restaurant, I just fall down laughing. I don't care if the show gets better; its already one of the best.

i totally love this show as well. despite some of the unrealistic things, like coop's boob grabbing tendencies or jackie's over the top pill popping, the rest of the show has this bealievable quality that i haven't seen anywhere else on tv. they never pull out any ridiculous medical cases like they do on grey's anatomy and there's never any unrelistic twists and turns. i'm actually surprised when watching it because i expect absurd plot twists in these medical dramas now.

anyway, eve best is ridiculously hot and i really hope her character dr. o'hara is a big old lesbo. i loved that scene in the bathroom where jackie says, "it might be better if you leave." and dr o'hara says, "nothing is better if i leave." truer words were never spoken. haha.

Love this show!

The episode before this I fell off the couch laughing when Akalitus tasered herself. Hehe

How would you like your eggs? "Hmm, today? Unfertilized please.."

is totally a lesbi, all the scenes that she shares with jackie are just begging you to think it. ...and what is with jackie's hair? what kind of a statement are we attempting to make here? a busy nurse who doesnt want to deal with her hair every morning? yeh, that must be it.