Nurse Jackie
Slow Growing Monsters
TV Flash files “Slow Growing Monsters” as hour 40 of 80 in the TV Flash guide — Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) on Showtime, season 4, episode 4, aired 2012-04-29, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E04: listed hour 40 of 80 in the Nurse Jackie guide, hour 4 of 10 in season 4. It aired 2012-04-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Wall” (S04E03). Next is “One-Armed Jacks” (S04E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jackie catches Grace with a boy at a carnival and takes her, not before deleting the number from the boys phone. While at the carnival, Grace announces to Fiona and Zoey that Jackie went to rehab. Jackie goes to an AA meeting with Charlie only to find out that he is using again. Kevin forced Eddie to tell him what Jackie took, when they were having the affair, before telling Eddie to tell Jackie to "Kiss her kids goodbye". Jackie almost relapses when a patient gives her their medications. She throws them in a dumpster and then tries to retrieve them and falls in. She then gets out and walks away pill free. Charlie is revealed to be Dr.Cruz"s son.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Slow Growing Monsters sit in the Nurse Jackie guide?
S04E04 is listed hour 40 of 80 — hour 4 of 10 in season 4, season 4 episode 4.
When did Nurse Jackie S04E04 air?
Slow Growing Monsters aired 2012-04-29 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
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- Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow
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- Paul Schulze as Eddie Walzer
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- Peter Facinelli as Fitch Cooper
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- Dominic Fumusa as Kevin Peyton
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