On vacation last week, my husband and I were sitting in a great restaurant with a quartet of septuagenarians at the table across from us. After several drinks their conversation got a little louder and I perked up when I heard one woman say, ''One show I love is Nurse Jackie.''Once you meet Jackie you don't forget her; she is undoubtedly a ...

What's worse: a nurse Jackie who is stoned on painkillers, or withdrawing from them? This seems to be the dichotomy of the Jackie we see in most episodes of Nurse Jackie - the drug-addict who's somehow still managing to keep it all together - and the opiate-craving, agitated and unraveling Jackie we see in the finale. By the finale of ...