Nurse Jackie
Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black
TV Flash files “Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black” as a desk essential hour — Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) on Showtime, season 4, episode 1, aired 2012-04-08, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E01: listed hour 37 of 80 in the Nurse Jackie guide, first listed hour of season 4. It aired 2012-04-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “…Deaf Blind Tumor Pee-Test” (S03E12). Next is “Disneyland Sucks” (S04E02).
Essential hour: “Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black”. Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black is a season-four premiere that stutters a proverb: hypocrisy as house style, the best nurse still the show's hardest case.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After breaking up with Kevin, Jackie has to realize she needs professional help. Meanwhile, a new director at the hospital makes some personnel changes and Kevin finds out about Jackie and Eddie's affair.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black sit in the Nurse Jackie guide?
S04E01 is listed hour 37 of 80 — first listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 1.
When did Nurse Jackie S04E01 air?
Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black aired 2012-04-08 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
Edie Falco's Carmela Soprano is why The Sopranos is literature with better lighting, not a crime blotter with prestige cameras. Family as co-author of harm, New Jersey mundanity beside the cut to black. TV Flash files her as the series'…
- 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
Eve Best plays Rhaenys Targaryen on House of the Dragon — court steel under group-chat surveillance, a dragonrider the Sunday tags treat like a deposition exhibit. TV Flash files her as prequel craft with a stare that does not need the…
- 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…