Review of Nurse Jackie

Great cast and premise, and it kept me watching all episodes but i have several issues. I just binge watched it in May 2020 so I'm late in watching this. The show intrigued me because I like Edie Falco and Peter Facinelli. My fave character ended up being Zoey (Merritt). Although she is annoyingly cheery, she reminds me a lot of myself. From what all of my nurse friends say, the all love their job but they do complain about the CATTiness of the women nurses and the snobby doctors. So I think this show did a good job of portraying nurses. The cases did seem far fetched on here but it is a drama made for tv. I think cancer and flu patients being shown in every episode would get boring, lets be real. My problems: Jackie's short hair. I just couldn't stand her with a bob haircut. I'm glad it ended up growing out in later seasons. I also hated her popping those pills like it was nothing. No water or anything. Just chewing them or swallowing whole. It was just annoying and got old in every episode, almost. The only time i liked Jackie's character was when she was clean for that full year. Very frustrating everytime she started using again. Im sure in real life, nurses or doctors can't actually do their job while intoxicated all day. But again, its tv, sooooo.... Then there is the whole doctors and nurses getting it on in random rooms. Im certain that doesn't happen. They made me hate jackie but made me root for her the whole time. Jackie is so selfish. She had such a good life and loved her job so much and they made her choose drugs over her family and friends and its very frustrating. I know a lot of drug addicts who have became clean and stayed clean so i know it is possible. The lies, the stealing, manipulation and selfishness are all things that drug addicts do but its frustrating to watch. The season finale was blah for me and i feel like i didn't get any closure. They should have either had her die from it or become clean for good, but not open ended so we have to wonder this whole time if she survived the OD. It would have been nice for it to conclude with her becoming clean for good. That way it would give watchers hope that people can become clean no matter what f^<#ed up things they have done, but it was very unfulfilling. All in all it was ok but I only continued to watch to see how her life would turn out.