Goodnight Nurse

Nurse Jackie, that meshuggah medic who darkened the doorstep one dilemma at a time every Sunday evening on Showtime  while all the while leaving you in stitches with her sitches for seven full seasons has finally received her marching and do not resuscitate orders- with the latter suggesting a decidedly more subjective statement. Is she is, or is she ain't?  In one of the boldest climaxes the network has ever achieved, since the Masters of Sex series that is, and an ending that lingered for many of us and little doubt that it was  the talk of water cooler town come Monday morning. Call it the curious case of the sweetest hangover, that you willingly may never get over. The antidote - I'll give you an A for ambiguous and is there a grade worthy of Edie Falco who for quite some time has been channeling the Cassavetes Age of Gena Rowlands and believe you me - I doesn't bandy such adulation about for just anyone.

The thespian herself has quantified that like Nurse Jackie, Falco both suffered and recovered from a narcotics addiction and while there is nothing quite like the real thing to facilitate a role, there's far more hidden up her proverbial blue sleeve and even if Falco were her whole existence as teetotal as a Bronte sister,  portraying a druggie with a soul would have created a very nominal amount of sweat off her back. Back-peddle if you will to Falco's award-ensuing role of Carmella Soprano in that series that needs no introduction and you will note the tremendous testament to her talent there and all the while never having been a mob wife herself (I think) - just look what she did there and I will tell you this - acting of that caliber doesn't grow on trees.

Now how do I get his coke stain off my scrubs>

Oh Nurse Jackie you need not fret - you can take heart in knowing that you are out there somewhere  in a medicine cabinet far away a' rummaging through and never missing a beat on your eighteen hour shifts and you were indeed a master creation though Showtime may just never have that recipe again.