Nurse Jackie

The series was first conceived by executive producer Caryn Mandabach after being told various stories from an ER nurse about her experience on the job. Using the nurse's stories as an inspiration, Evan Dunsky developed a script for Showtime.{{cite news|title=She's giving it a shot|first=Matea|last=Gold|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-07-ca-nurse-jackie7-story.html|date=June 7, 2009|work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601214345/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-07-ca-nurse-jackie7-story.html|url-status=live}} By this time, the series had been under the title Nurse Mona and was a considerably darker version of the show with vague supernatural elements.{{cite news|title=TV Tonight: Edie Falco's Nurse Jackie returns to Showtime|first=David|last=Bauder|url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/local/2010/03/22/tv-tonight-edie-falcos-nurse-jackie-returns-showtime/15951960007/|date=March 22, 2010|work=The Florida Times-Union |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601220738/https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/local/2010/03/22/tv-tonight-edie-falcos-nurse-jackie-returns-showtime/15951960007/|url-status=live}} Edie Falco initially passed on the project, but was very intrigued by the main character. Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem had written a pilot about addiction for Showtime titled Insatiable; the two were asked to rework Nurse Mona and infuse it with more comedy.{{cite news|title= Blood and Guts: Out of the Mob, Into the E.R. |first=Kathryn|last=Shattuck|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/television/31shat.html|date=May 28, 2009|work=The New York Times |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430045728/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/television/31shat.html|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|title=Edie Falco: The Nurse Jackie Exit Interview|first=Jason|last=Clark|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/06/26/edie-falco-says-goodbye-nurse-jackie-ew-feature/|date=June 26, 2015|magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528170307/https://ew.com/article/2015/06/26/edie-falco-says-goodbye-nurse-jackie-ew-feature/|url-status=live}} Nurse Jackie was officially ordered by Showtime in June 2008, with Falco attached to star and the season to begin filming later that year. Co-creators Brixius and Wallem served as showrunners.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS19931+19-Jul-2008+PRN20080719|title=Showtime Puts Nurse Jackie On Call|date=July 18, 2008|work=Reuters|access-date=March 8, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809194755/https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS19931+19-Jul-2008+PRN20080719|archive-date=August 9, 2009|df=mdy-all}}

The story of Jackie's addiction was personal for Falco, Wallem, and Brixius, as all three were recovering alcoholics. According to Brixius, "There are massive consequences to addiction, that in order to keep using, you have to keep rationalizing and tell yourself a different story and underplay the damage that you're doing, and that is the interesting part of Jackie... And it's also where a lot of our comedy comes from. It's not that it's funny, it's that it's absurd." Producer Liz Flahive recalled the writing staff of Nurse Jackie was majority female and half-consisted of individuals from the LGBTQ community.{{cite magazine|title=Why Are TV Writers So Miserable?|first=Michael|last=Schulman|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/why-are-tv-writers-so-miserable|date=April 29, 2023|magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=May 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525112626/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/why-are-tv-writers-so-miserable|url-status=live}}

For the show's fourth season, which saw Jackie enter rehab and attempt sobriety, Falco said "the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it's all fun and games, and isn't it funny what she gets away with. It's important that we are accurate as far as showing the ramifications of this kind of behavior."{{cite news|title=A Conversation with Edie Falco|first=June|last=Thomas|url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/edie-falco-interview-nurse-jackie-carmela-soprano-and-her-family.html|date=April 6, 2012|work=Slate |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530065736/https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/edie-falco-interview-nurse-jackie-carmela-soprano-and-her-family.html|url-status=live}} Wallem claims that she and Flahive were long opposed to the idea of Jackie entering rehab until it just seemed right for them: "It just hit me and it was like our own experiences of sobriety...during the break in between [seasons] three and four we had this long talk. We started to talk about what that would look like. I had to divorce myself from my own experience of rehab."{{cite news|title=Interview: Nurse Jackie Co-Creator Linda Wallem|first=Jim|last=Halterman|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/interviews/2012/04/06/interview-nurse-jackie-co-creator-linda-wallem-301214/20120406_nursejackie/|date=April 6, 2012|work=The Futon Critic |access-date=June 1, 2023}}

After the fourth season, Wallem and Brixius departed as showrunners. The two, who had been in a relationship prior to the start of the series, were said to be having major disagreements that were affecting production.{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackie Showrunners' Personal Friction Leads to Departures|first1=Lesley|last1=Goldberg|first2=Lacey|last2=Rose|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nurse-jackie-linda-wallem-liz-brixius-depart-313065/|date=April 6, 2012|work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=April 17, 2012 |archive-date=August 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809191431/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nurse-jackie-linda-wallem-liz-brixius-depart-313065/|url-status=live}} Nurse Jackie was renewed for a fifth season on May 31, 2012, and Clyde Phillips was announced to be taking over as showrunner.{{cite news|title=Showtime Renews Nurse Jackie For Fifth Season With Clyde Phillips As Showrunner|first=Lesley|last=Goldberg|url=https://deadline.com/2012/05/showtime-renewes-nurse-jackie-for-fifth-season-with-clyde-phillips-as-showrunner-279794/|date=May 31, 2012|work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=May 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531211535/https://deadline.com/2012/05/showtime-renewes-nurse-jackie-for-fifth-season-with-clyde-phillips-as-showrunner-279794/|url-status=live}} In discussing his hiring, Phillips recalled that Showtime "wanted [the show] darker and funnier and with a greater sense of consequence. Jackie's been a drug addict trying to live a triple life and basically threw a hand grenade into everybody's lives. They wanted to see the effect of what happens when the shrapnel goes flying around."{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackies New Showrunner Clyde Phillips on the Big Changes Ahead in Season Five|first=Denise|last=Martin|url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/04/nurse-jackie-new-boss-clyde-phillips-on-season-5-changes.html|date=April 12, 2013|work=Vulture |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=April 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422104311/http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/nurse-jackie-new-boss-clyde-phillips-on-season-5-changes.html|url-status=live}}

On March 31, 2014, Showtime renewed Nurse Jackie for a seventh season, which was announced in September as the show's final season.[http://www.inquisitr.com/1467519/nurse-jackie-ending-after-season-7-final-episodes-to-air-in-2015/ 'Nurse Jackie' Ending After Season 7, Final Episodes To Air In 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101035300/http://www.inquisitr.com/1467519/nurse-jackie-ending-after-season-7-final-episodes-to-air-in-2015/ |date=January 1, 2015 }} inquisitr.com, 10. September 2014 The series finale saw Jackie overdose on street-grade heroin, though her fate was left ambiguous. According to Phillips, "It is left to the viewers to figure out... We had a long conversation with the network about it, and one of the things we wanted to do was to keep the conversation going after the show ends with a good and healthy debate because this is really a show about the effects of a ferocious disease—drug addiction—on an otherwise healthy person."{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackie Series Finale: Clyde Phillips Shares the Story Behind Jackie's Ultimate Fate|first=Lesley|last=Goldberg|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nurse-jackie-series-finale-clyde-805408/|date=June 28, 2015|work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601231155/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nurse-jackie-series-finale-clyde-805408/|url-status=live}}

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Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) is an emergency department nurse at the fictional All Saints Hospital in New York City. She has two daughters and is married to her husband Kevin (Dominic Fumusa), although she is having an affair with the hospital pharmacist Eddie (Paul Schulze) in exchange for pills. Her allies at the hospital include Dr. Eleanor O'Hara (Eve Best), new nurse Zoey Barkow (Merritt Wever), and hard-lined administrator Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith). Over the course of the first season, she spars with Dr. Fitch Cooper (Peter Facinelli), whom Jackie finds obnoxious, and tries to help her anxious daughter Grace (Ruby Jerins). Other All Saints staff members include Momo (Haaz Sleiman), Thor (Stephen Wallem), Sam (Arjun Gupta), Dr. Ike Prentiss (Morris Chestnut), Dr. Carrie Roman (Betty Gilpin), and Dr. Bernard Prince (Tony Shalhoub).

Jackie's affair with Eddie comes to an abrupt end when Eddie is fired and subsequently discovers that she's married. Despite this, he continues to try to ingrain himself into her life by becoming friends with Kevin. Eddie eventually returns to the hospital and he and Jackie remain friends, although she needs a new source for drugs. She begins faking back pain and asks that O'Hara provide her with medication. Meanwhile, O'Hara is left with a windfall of cash after her mother dies and insists on financing Jackie's daughter's education. Although Kevin refuses, Jackie secretly takes the money and uses it to pay off debts she's accrued from her drug habit. After inquiring about a fake MRI, O'Hara discovers that Jackie lied about her back pain and Kevin discovers she took the money without consulting him. Furious, he discovers Jackie's debt and comes to the conclusion that she's a drug addict. Kevin and O'Hara stage an intervention on Jackie but she insists that these expenses were for their daughters. Although she's able to repair her relationship with O'Hara, the Peyton marriage remains on the rocks.

Running low on pills, Jackie steals several thousand dollars worth of drugs off an epileptic man having a seizure. He survives and meets with Jackie: he's an AA sponsor who begins supplying Jackie with pills in exchange for cash. He also gives Jackie AA coins that she's able to present to Kevin, falsely claiming to be seeking treatment for her addiction. After her dealer is hit by a bus in a freak accident, Jackie begins going through withdrawal and resorts to taking medication prescribed to her anxious daughter. This devastates O'Hara. Jackie also steals several fentanyl patches from the hospital and blames a temp nurse. This results in an investigation and Jackie's urine is collected, although Akalitus disposes of the specimen because she knows what the result will be. Meanwhile, Kevin reveals to Jackie that he had a brief affair. Although he's willing to work things out, she demands that he move out. Her addiction continues to worsen until she brings a junkie into her home who dies after they smoke crack together. After calling O'Hara for help, Jackie breaks down and agrees to go to rehab.

All Saints is bought by a conglomerate called Quantum Bay with the new hospital administrator being Dr. Mike Cruz (Bobby Cannavale). Meanwhile, Jackie goes to rehab and connects with a young addict named Charlie. Although she leaves halfway through and returns to work, she remains committed to staying sober. Her personal life begins to fall apart as Kevin, upon learning she had an affair with Eddie and he supplied her drug habit, serves her with divorce papers and wants primary custody of their daughters. Jackie also spars with Dr. Cruz and his abrasive management style. After Charlie relapses, Jackie learns that he's the son of Dr. Cruz, and Cruz learns that she's his friend from rehab. Incensed, Cruz fires Akalitus and Eddie for covering up Jackie's addiction. As the All Saints staff begins to revolt against his increasingly rigid management, Jackie snaps and Cruz fires her. Charlie overdoses and is admitted to the ER; he dies as Jackie attends the birth of O'Hara's child.

Several months later, Jackie is still committed to her sobriety and has her job back at All Saints, along with Eddie and Akalitus, with Dr. Cruz having left after Charlie's death. Jackie is also going through divorce proceedings with Kevin. They're able to come to an agreement regarding the custody of their daughters as they finalize their divorce. Meanwhile, O'Hara moves back to England and Jackie begins dating a police officer named Frank (Adam Ferrara). Jackie learns that her increasingly rebellious daughter Grace is using drugs. Her relationship with Frank continues to develop. As she approaches one year of sobriety, everything in Jackie's life appears to be on the mend – however, on the day of her anniversary, she takes a pill.

Jackie reverts back to her old ways but has everyone in her life fooled into thinking she's still sober. To keep up the facade, she regularly attends AA meetings and even takes on a sponsor named Antoinette (Julie White). Frank catches her using and, naive to what addiction entails, Jackie's able to convince him it was a one-time thing. However, when Antoinette discovers this, she becomes increasingly worried about Jackie. After a failed attempt at detox, Antoinette continues insisting Jackie go to rehab. Ultimately, Jackie convinces Antoinette, an alcoholic, to fall off the wagon so they can both enter rehab together. As they both enter the rehab clinic intoxicated, Jackie abandons Antoinette there. She also breaks up with Frank and ramps up her drug use. Zoey, who has become Jackie's increasingly-astute protege over the seasons, suspects she's using after almost killing a patient. Akalitus demands that Jackie comply with a urine test or enter the hospital's diversion program, which includes the temporary suspension of her nursing license. Instead, Jackie attempts to leave town with a carful of meds to help hurricane relief victims in Miami. On the way to the airport, Jackie crashes her car into an ambulance and is arrested for drug trafficking.

After her arrest, Jackie is fired but, through the efforts of a cunning lawyer (Mark Feuerstein), she's able to enter the hospital's diversion program until the board can convene to discuss the reinstatement of her nursing license. Until then, she mops floors, wears beige scrubs, has her urine tested daily, but cannot touch patients. Zoey in particular is devastated by this arrangement as she's forced to supervise her former mentor. Akalitus also fires Eddie for supplying Jackie with the drugs she got arrested with. Eddie and Jackie rekindle their romantic relationship and begin selling drugs to pay for Jackie's expensive lawyer. After purging their stash at a pill mill, the two get engaged. Meanwhile, All Saints is bought by Norwegian developers set to convert the building into luxury condos. Jackie and Zoey briefly stage a revolt to protest the hospital closing but these efforts are ultimately futile.

The board convenes and, after a tumultuous hearing, reinstates Jackie's nursing license. Jackie immediately reverts to her drug use. Meanwhile, Eddie is busted from the pill mill operation and prepares for a one-year prison sentence. In the hospital's final days, O'Hara returns and confronts Jackie over her drug use. Jackie receives a job offer from Bellevue Hospital and wants Zoey to come with her; Zoey ultimately declines the offer and states that she needs to move on from Jackie. As the hospital throws a going away party, Jackie snorts several lines of street-grade heroin and overdoses in the middle of their shindig; her fate is left ambiguous.

Showtime called Jackie Peyton a "strong-willed, iconoclastic New York City nurse juggling the frenzied grind of an urban hospital and an equally challenging personal life," noting that she had "an occasional weakness for Vicodin, Percocet, and Xanax to get her through the days." The main characters include Dr. Eleanor O'Hara (Eve Best), a British doctor and Jackie's best friend at work; Zoey Barkow (Merritt Wever), a spunky, inexperienced nursing student from a community college, "the perfect foil for Jackie's sharp angles";{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/06302008/tv/nurse_edie_117899.htm|title=Nurse Edie: First Look at Sopranos Star's Dark, New Hospital Comedy|last=Starr|first=Michael|date=June 30, 2008|work=New York Post|access-date=March 8, 2009|archive-date=April 23, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423012920/http://www.nypost.com/seven/06302008/tv/nurse_edie_117899.htm|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Edie-Nurse-Jackie-1006715.aspx|title=Snap Judgment: Nurse Jackie|first=Mickey|last=O'Connor|publisher=TVGuide.com|date=June 8, 2009|access-date=June 9, 2009|archive-date=June 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612053613/http://www.tvguide.com/News/Edie-Nurse-Jackie-1006715.aspx|url-status=live}} Dr. Fitch Cooper (Peter Facinelli), "a likable 'golden boy' whose calm façade hides a nervous disposition"; and Eddie Walzer (Paul Schulze), a pharmacist with whom Jackie is having an affair at the beginning of the series.{{cite web|url=http://www.afterelton.com/taxonomy/term/3633|title=Meet the gays of The United States of Tara and Nurse Jackie|last=Juergens|first=Brian|date=December 23, 2008|publisher=AfterElton.com|access-date=March 8, 2009|archive-date=March 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310194242/http://www.afterelton.com/taxonomy/term/3633|url-status=live}}

Other characters include the officious hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), Jackie's bar owner husband Kevin (Dominic Fumusa), their daughters Grace (Ruby Jerins) and Fiona (Daisy Tahan in season 1 and Mackenzie Aladjem in seasons 2 through 7), and Thor (Stephen Wallem), Jackie's kindhearted confidant and the real-life brother of show creator/executive producer Linda Wallem.{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2010/03/23/nurse-jackies-hammer-thor|title=Stephen Wallem: Nurse Jackie's Hammer of Thor|last=Voss|first=Brandon|date=March 23, 2010|publisher=Advocate.com|access-date=October 10, 2015|archive-date=May 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512210627/http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2010/03/23/nurse-jackies-hammer-thor|url-status=live}}

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| Merritt Wever

| scope="row"| Zoey Barkow

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| Haaz Sleiman

| scope="row"| Mohammed de la Cruz

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| Paul Schulze

| scope="row"| Eddie Walzer

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| Peter Facinelli

| scope="row"| Fitch "Coop" Cooper

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| Dominic Fumusa

| scope="row"| Kevin Peyton

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| Anna Deavere Smith

| scope="row"| Gloria Akalitus

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| Ruby Jerins

| scope="row"| Grace Peyton

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| Daisy Tahan / Mackenzie Aladjem

| scope="row"| Fiona Peyton

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| Bobby Cannavale

| scope="row"| Miguel Cruz

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| colspan="2" {{CMain}}Cannavale is credited alongside the main cast in the opening credits, though he is billed as a "special guest star".

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| Morris Chestnut

| scope="row"| Ike Prentiss

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| colspan="2" {{CMain}}Chestnut is credited alongside the main cast in the opening credits, though he is billed as a "special guest star".

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| scope="row"| Thor Lundgren

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| Betty Gilpin

| scope="row"| Carrie Roman

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| Adam Ferrara

| scope="row"| Frank Verelli

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• Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, RN; a senior ER nurse
• Eve Best as Eleanor O'Hara, MD; an ER surgeon, later Chief of Emergency Medicine
• Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow, RN; an ER nurse, later ER charge-nurse
• Haaz Sleiman as Mohammed de la Cruz, RN; an ER nurse
• Paul Schulze as Eddie Walzer, PharmD.; the ER pharmacist
• Peter Facinelli as Fitch "Coop" Cooper, MD; an ER physician
• Dominic Fumusa as Kevin Peyton; Jackie's husband
• Anna Deavere Smith as Gloria Akalitus, RN; the ER administrator
• Ruby Jerins as Grace Peyton; Jackie's elder daughter
• Daisy Tahan (season 1) and Mackenzie Aladjem (season 2–7) as Fiona Peyton; Jackie's younger daughter
• Bobby Cannavale as Miguel Cruz, MD
• Morris Chestnut as Ike Prentiss, MD; a trauma surgeon and the Chief of Emergency Medicine
• Stephen Wallem as Thor Lundgren, RN; an ER nurse
• Betty Gilpin as Carrie Roman, MD; an ER physician
• Adam Ferrara as Frank Verelli; an NYPD Sergeant

• Rene Ifrah as Officer Ryan (seasons 1–3)
• Arjun Gupta as Sam (seasons 1–4)
• Lenny Jacobson as Lenny (seasons 1–4)
• Michael Buscemi as God (seasons 1–4, 7)
• Bill Sage as Bill (season 2–3)
• Jaimie Alexander as Tunie Peyton (season 3)
• Gbenga Akinnagbe as Kelly Slater (seasons 3–4)
• Jake Cannavale as Charlie Cruz (season 4)
• Marcy Harriell as Marta (season 5)
• Laura Benanti as Mia Peyton (season 6)
• Julie White as Antoinette Mills (season 6)
• Michael Esper as Gabe (season 6–7)
• Tony Shalhoub as Bernard Prince, MD (season 7)
• Jeremy Shamos as Johanes Karlsen (season 7)
• Mark Feuerstein as Barry Wolfe (season 7)

{{Television critical response

| rotten_tomatoes1 = 89% (35 reviews)

| metacritic1 = 76 (23 reviews)

| rotten_tomatoes2 = 83% (24 reviews)

| metacritic2 = 75 (16 reviews)

| rotten_tomatoes3 = 76% (17 reviews)

| metacritic3 = 79 (7 reviews)

| rotten_tomatoes4 = 94% (17 reviews)

| metacritic4 = 83 (9 reviews)

| rotten_tomatoes5 = 62% (13 reviews)

| metacritic5 = 66 (10 reviews)

| rotten_tomatoes6 = 69% (13 reviews)

| metacritic6 = 64 (4 reviews)

| rotten_tomatoes7 = 94% (16 reviews)

| metacritic7 = N/A

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The premiere of Nurse Jackie was met with generally positive reviews from critics, and received a Metacritic rating of 76 out of 100.{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie-Season 1 Reviews|url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/nurse-jackie|website=www.metacritic.com|access-date=24 February 2015|archive-date=September 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929064434/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/nurse-jackie|url-status=live}} Entertainment Weekly gave the first episode a B+, stating "Edie Falco brings a genial forcefulness to Nurse Jackie."{{cite news |title=Nurse Jackie (2009) |first=Ken |last=Tucker |url=https://ew.com/article/2009/05/27/nurse-jackie/ |date=May 26, 2009 |publisher=EntertainmentWeekly.com |access-date=June 14, 2009 |archive-date=June 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627021341/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20281086,00.html |url-status=live }} New York magazine called the Showtime series "smart, acrid, alternately sharp and sentimental" and "the best series yet in the cable channel's ongoing meditation on the nature of addiction ... and the setting for a truly breakthrough female character."{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/tv/reviews/57051/|title=Night Nurse: Edie Falco's ambitious, ambiguous pill-popping healer|last=Nussbaum|first=Emily|date=May 31, 2009|publisher=NYMag.com|access-date=July 19, 2009|archive-date=June 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605112355/http://nymag.com/arts/tv/reviews/57051/|url-status=live}} James Poniewozik from Time magazine ranked Nurse Jackie's episode "Tiny Bubbles" (106) as 5th on his Top 10 Episodes of 2009 list.[https://entertainment.time.com/2009/12/08/top-10-episodes-of-2009-the-best-and-the-rest/ Time Magazine's Top 10 episode list for 2009] . Tunedin.blogs.time.com (December 8, 2009). Variety and Salon struck the primary sour notes, with Variety noting, "The series increasingly feels like all style and limited substance – a star showcase that's less 'triumphant return' than 'Nice to have you back, but...'"{{cite news |title=Nurse Jackie Review |first=Brian |last=Lowry |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940427.html?categoryid=32&cs=1 |date=June 7, 2009 |work=Variety |access-date=June 14, 2009 |archive-date=June 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619125400/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940427.html?categoryid=32&cs=1 |url-status=live }} However, it was criticized by New York State Nurses Association, who claimed that the title character's violations of the nursing Code of Ethics promoted a negative image of nurses.[http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/nurse-jackie-bbc-two Nurse Jackie, BBC Two | TV reviews, news & interviews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416022040/http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/nurse-jackie-bbc-two |date=April 16, 2012 }}. The Arts Desk (January 5, 2010). Retrieved on 2012-10-09.

The second season also received positive reviews, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 83% based on 24 reviews and the critics consensus reading, "While the tone begins to falter slightly in the second season, Nurse Jackie still triumphs due to Edie Falco's outstanding performance."{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie Season 2|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nurse-jackie/s02|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 28, 2023}} Robert Bianco of USA Today gave the season a perfect score, stating: "What's remarkable is the fine balance producer/writers Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius maintain between the comic and tragic. Jackie can be a dark show, and it's going to get darker. But there isn't an episode that doesn't leave you yearning to see the next."{{cite news |title=Critic's diagnosis: Edie Falco is a true star in 'Nurse Jackie'|first=Robert|last=Bianco|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2010-03-22-jackie22_ST_N.htm |date=March 22, 2010 |work=USA Today |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=October 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022134442/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2010-03-22-jackie22_ST_N.htm |url-status=live }} Amelie Gillette of The A.V. Club was more mixed in her review of the season premiere, praising the actors but criticizing some of the dramatic elements: "Despite the rather lame drama swirling around her, Edie Falco's coolly exasperated Jackie still somehow rises above."{{cite news |title=Nurse Jackie: "Comfort Food" |first=Amelie|last=Gillette|url=https://www.avclub.com/nurse-jackie-comfort-food-1798164577|date=March 22, 2010 |work=The A.V. Club |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207032401/https://www.avclub.com/nurse-jackie-comfort-food-1798164577 |url-status=live }}

The third season also received positive reviews from critics, though less positive than the previous two. The season has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 76% based on 17 reviews, with the critics consensus reading: "The upheavals at All Saints Hospital still make for addicting television, but this third season suffers from formula fatigue as Jackie's actions continue to escape meaningful consequences."{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie Season 3|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nurse-jackie/s03|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 28, 2023}} Kathy Sweeney of The Guardian said of the season, "You can't help feeling the show is treading water. True, she is a great nurse, if you overlook the fact she's whacked out of her head as she dispenses her unorthodox brand of healthcare, but it's getting increasingly hard to see Jackie as a sympathetic character."{{cite news|title=Have you been watching... Nurse Jackie?|first=Kathy|last=Sweeney|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/sep/06/have-you-been-watching-nurse-jackie|date=September 6, 2011 |work=The Guardian |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=May 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170520232106/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/sep/06/have-you-been-watching-nurse-jackie |url-status=live }} Verne Gay of Newsday was more positive, giving the season a B: "Comedy or drama? Drama or comedy? Nurse Jackie continues to have it both ways in the third season, which is certainly a smart strategy."{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackie with Edie Falco, season 3|first=Verne|last=Gay|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/nurse-jackie-with-edie-falco-season-3-h21019|date=March 28, 2011|work=Newsday |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815125146/https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/nurse-jackie-with-edie-falco-season-3-h21019|url-status=live}}

The fourth season received critical acclaim from critics, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94% based on 17 reviews and a critics consensus reading: "Nurse Jackie stages an intervention on the series' status quo, resulting in an exhilarating fourth season that restores the element of discovery and surprise."{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie Season 4|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nurse-jackie/s04|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 28, 2023}} James Poniewozik of Time wrote: "This season's changes have really invigorated the series... The people around Jackie made me stick with this show even when its main storyline was going nowhere, but now that it's committed to really engaging with its title character, it's become appointment TV for me again.".{{cite magazine|title=TV Weekend: Nurse Jackie's Road to Recovery|first=James|last=Poniewozik |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/08/tv-weekend-nurse-jackies-road-to-recovery/|date=June 8, 2012|magazine=Time |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528114621/https://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/08/tv-weekend-nurse-jackies-road-to-recovery/|url-status=live}} June Thomas of Slate called the season a "triumph", singling out the final minutes of the season as "one of the most beautifully choreographed climaxes I've ever seen".{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackie Has Gotten Surprisingly Good|first=June|last=Thomas|url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/nurse-jackie-season-4-has-been-surprising-and-excellent-watch-the-finale-on-showtime-tonight.html|date=June 17, 2012|work=Slate |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323022533/https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/nurse-jackie-season-4-has-been-surprising-and-excellent-watch-the-finale-on-showtime-tonight.html|url-status=live}}

Season five received mixed-to-positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a 62% based on 13 reviews with a critics consensus reading: "All Saints Hospital remains staffed with some of the most dependably terrific actors on television, but this fifth season feels bereft of new places to go and instead relapses back into the series' worst habits."{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie Season 5|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nurse-jackie/s05|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 28, 2023}} Alan Sepinwall of Uproxx offered mixed opinions on the season, claiming "I don't want to call this a safe version of Nurse Jackie, but it was certainly a comfortable one: a fairly straightforward hospital show that sometimes tilted towards comedy, sometimes towards drama, but pretty meat-and-potatoes overall, albeit with the usual strong performances from Falco, Merritt Wever and company."{{cite news|title=Season finale review: Nurse Jackie – 'Soul'|first=Alan|last=Sepinwall|author-link=Alan Sepinwall|url=https://uproxx.com/sepinwall/season-finale-review-nurse-jackie-soul-one-more-for-the-road/|date=June 17, 2013|work=Uproxx |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=May 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516053214/https://uproxx.com/sepinwall/season-finale-review-nurse-jackie-soul-one-more-for-the-road/}} Brian Lowry of Variety gave a mostly positive review, stating "Jackie remains watchable thanks primarily to Falco, although the best moments are almost invariably dramatic, not humorous."{{cite news|title=TV Reviews: Showtime's The Big C, Nurse Jackie, The Borgias|first=Brian|last=Lowry|url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/tv-reviews-showtimes-the-big-c-nurse-jackie-the-borgias-1200349021/|date=April 12, 2013|work=Variety |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207131142/https://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/tv-reviews-showtimes-the-big-c-nurse-jackie-the-borgias-1200349021/}}

Reception for the sixth season was more positive, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 69% based on 13 reviews and the critics consensus reading: "Nurse Jackie matures into a disturbing chronicle of insurmountable addiction as Edie Falco's tragic protagonist hits rock bottom, but the sixth season's commitment to the repetition of drug abuse may prove too monotonous for some viewers."{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie Season 6|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nurse-jackie/s06|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 28, 2023}} People magazine offered a positive review: "Jackie crosses the line from a show about a woman struggling with a pill addiction to simply a show about an addict. Jackie will either get clean—she's using again—or lose everything... Edie Falco makes the stakes scarily real."{{cite news|title=Picks and Pans Main: Tv|last1=Gliatto|first1=Tom|last2=Gomez|first2=Patrick|url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-main-tv-vol-81-no-16/|date=April 21, 2014|work=People |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528193702/https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-main-tv-vol-81-no-16//}} Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe praised the season's portrayal of addiction: "Nurse Jackie has grown into one of TV's most uncompromising series, a portrait of addiction that refuses, and then refuses all over again, to soften the truth or give viewers a comforting way out."{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackie, uncompromising and underrated|first=Matthew|last=Gilbert|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2014/06/14/nurse-jackie-uncompromising-and-underrated/6daWIab8tLvSgdWjTppuFO/story.html|date=June 14, 2014|work=The Boston Globe |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=December 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203114554/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2014/06/14/nurse-jackie-uncompromising-and-underrated/6daWIab8tLvSgdWjTppuFO/story.html}} Joel Keller of IndieWire criticized the season as derivative of the show's early years.{{cite news|title=Why Does Showtime Run Shows Like Nurse Jackie Into the Ground?|first=Joel|last=Keller|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/why-does-showtime-run-shows-like-nurse-jackie-into-the-ground-25043/|date=June 22, 2014|work=IndieWire |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528195209/https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/why-does-showtime-run-shows-like-nurse-jackie-into-the-ground-25043/}}

The seventh and final season received critical acclaim from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a 94% based on 16 reviews and a critics consensus reading: "Nurse Jackie concludes with a harrowing and ultimately moving final season, granting the ensemble multiple grace notes while never diminishing the difficulty of addiction."{{cite web|title=Nurse Jackie Season 7|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nurse-jackie/s07|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 28, 2023}} Michelle Newman of Entertainment Weekly praised the final episode as "Heartbreaking. Because despite its complications, addiction is sad. And I think that's the only certain thing left to feel."{{cite magazine|title=Nurse Jackie recap: 'I Say a Little Prayer'|first=Michelle|last=Newman|url=https://ew.com/recap/nurse-jackie-series-finale/|date=June 29, 2015|magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=August 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813033833/https://ew.com/recap/nurse-jackie-series-finale/}} Margaret Lyons of Vulture praised the show's portrayal of the main character, claiming: "That refusal to soften Jackie, that resistance to bend towards likability, is the show's most impressive feat."{{cite news|title=Nurse Jackie Refused to Soften Jackie Till the Bitter End|first=Margaret|last=Lyons|url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/06/nurse-jackie-held-on-till-the-bitter-end.html|date=June 29, 2015|work=Vulture |access-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415085125/https://www.vulture.com/2015/06/nurse-jackie-held-on-till-the-bitter-end.html}} Variety ranked the final episode as one of TV's best series finales.{{cite news|title= The Best Series Finales in TV History|first=Danielle|last=Turchiano|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/best-series-finales-the-americans-breaking-bad-30-rock-1203221391/|date=May 21, 2019|work=Variety |access-date=June 9, 2023|archive-date=April 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410180316/https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/best-series-finales-the-americans-breaking-bad-30-rock-1203221391/}}

On August 29, 2010, at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, in her acceptance speech for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Falco exclaimed "I'm not funny!" Later, while speaking to the press, she expanded upon her statement and said that she felt her performance was dramatic. Several articles have since been written addressing this question, with some writers even calling for an overhaul of the Emmy categorization process as well as a "Comedy-Drama/Dramedy" category for the awards.{{cite news | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmys-why-comedy-nominees-arent-196678 | work=The Hollywood Reporter | first=Tim | last=Goodman | title=Emmys: Why Comedy Nominees Aren't Funny Anymore | date=June 9, 2011 | access-date=April 17, 2020 | archive-date=September 29, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929064427/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmys-why-comedy-nominees-arent-196678 | url-status=live }}[https://deadline.com/2011/06/emmys-do-they-need-dramedy-category-136178/ EMMYS: Do We Need A Dramedy Category?] . Deadline.com. Retrieved on 2012-10-09.

The June 8, 2009, series premiere was Showtime's most successful ever, with one million viewers for the premiere and over 350,000 for the repeat broadcast.{{cite web |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/993/993182p1.html |title=Showtime Orders More Nurse Jackie |first=Matt |last=Fowler |publisher=TV.IGN.com |date=June 9, 2009 |access-date=June 10, 2009 |archive-date=November 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105123307/http://tv.ign.com/articles/993/993182p1.html |url-status=live }} Showtime immediately picked up the series for a second season.

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• The Netherlands: Charlie: A Dutch remake of Nurse Jackie began production for Dutch TV Network, Nederland 3. Starring Halina Reijn, Katja Schuurman, and Benja Bruijning, the show began airing on March 13, 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/halina-reijn-krijgt-hoofdrol-in-nieuwe-ziekenhuisserie~bc7f0346/|title=Halina Reijn krijgt hoofdrol in nieuwe ziekenhuisserie|website=Het Parool|date=October 26, 2012|access-date=June 20, 2022|language=nl|url-status=live|archive-date=June 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619235103/https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/halina-reijn-krijgt-hoofdrol-in-nieuwe-ziekenhuisserie~bc7f0346/}}

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