Jackie Blew

Nurse Jackie's first season is over and it wasn't much. Most of the show is Jackie at the hospital, with drama we've seen done better, comedy that doesn't quite work, and characters who rarely rise above cliche. Meanwhile, the whole Jackie's secret-marriage thing has been a non-starter.

I admit it was interesting to see Jackie and pharmacist Eddie getting it on ten years after the same actors flirted as mob wife and priest. But the only character I thought really worked was newbie nurse Zoey Barkow, played by Merritt Wever. The other parts are just a collection of quirks, while Zoey actually felt alive.

The show's been picked up. Will it get better in its second season? It just about has to.