Nurse Jackie
Silly String
TV Flash files “Silly String” as hour 19 of 80 in the TV Flash guide — Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) on Showtime, season 2, episode 7, aired 2010-05-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E07: listed hour 19 of 80 in the Nurse Jackie guide, hour 7 of 12 in season 2. It aired 2010-05-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Bleeding” (S02E06). Next is “Monkey Bits” (S02E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Coop insults the biggest donor of the hospital. Jackie revisits her affair with Eddie.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Silly String sit in the Nurse Jackie guide?
S02E07 is listed hour 19 of 80 — hour 7 of 12 in season 2, season 2 episode 7.
When did Nurse Jackie S02E07 air?
Silly String aired 2010-05-03 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is Nurse Jackie a medical procedural?
The floor is real; the show is Jackie as best nurse and functioning addict in the same scrubs. Clinical dark comedy, not case-of-the-week healing.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Edie Falco's Jackie Peyton is the floor's best nurse and a functioning addict in the same scrubs. Nurse Jackie is half-hour antiheroine work: clinical dark comedy, Merritt Wever's Zoey as the conscience, and a series-ending choice that still starts arguments in the break room.
Jackie Peyton is the best nurse on the floor and a functioning opioid addict in the same scrubs, which is the whole craft argument of the half-hour. Liz Brixius, Linda Wallem, and Evan Dunsky's Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) reinvented Edie Falco post-Sopranos for Showtime's late-2000s wave: clinical dark comedy, not a medical procedural about healing the healer. Merritt Wever's Zoey is the conscience — an Emmy-winning breakout — beside Eve Best, Paul Schulze, Peter Facinelli, Dominic Fumusa. Competence as a cover…
Filed against
- Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton
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- Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow
Merritt Wever’s Zoey Barkow was the conscience in Nurse Jackie’s scrubs — Edie Falco’s best nurse and functioning addict in the same hour, 2000s half-hour antiheroine work, clinical dark comedy. A series-ending choice that still starts…
- Eve Best as Eleanor O'Hara
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- Paul Schulze as Eddie Walzer
Paul Schulze plays Eddie Walzer on Nurse Jackie, Edie Falco’s 2000s half-hour antiheroine work — best nurse and functioning addict in the same scrubs, clinical dark comedy, Merritt Wever’s Zoey as conscience. A series-ending choice that…
- Peter Facinelli as Fitch Cooper
Peter Facinelli plays Fitch Cooper on Nurse Jackie, 2000s half-hour antiheroine work — Edie Falco as the floor’s best nurse and a functioning addict in the same scrubs, clinical dark comedy, a series-ending choice that still starts…
- Dominic Fumusa as Kevin Peyton
Dominic Fumusa’s Kevin Peyton lived Nurse Jackie as the husband who had to share the scrubs’ secret — Edie Falco’s best nurse and functioning addict, half-hour antiheroine work, Merritt Wever’s Zoey as conscience. Clinical dark comedy…