Nurse Jackie
Good Thing
TV Flash files “Good Thing” as hour 51 of 80 in the TV Flash guide — Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) on Showtime, season 5, episode 5, aired 2013-05-12, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E05: listed hour 51 of 80 in the Nurse Jackie guide, hour 5 of 10 in season 5. It aired 2013-05-12 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Lost Girls” (S05E04). Next is “Walk of Shame” (S05E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jackie is nervous about her date with Frank, so Zoey and Thor help her get ready and Eddie offers some friendly pointers. Prentiss misdiagnoses an injured dancer, but Akalitus and Coop catch his mistake before the patient leaves. Mike Cruz calls Jackie in a moment of need.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Good Thing sit in the Nurse Jackie guide?
S05E05 is listed hour 51 of 80 — hour 5 of 10 in season 5, season 5 episode 5.
When did Nurse Jackie S05E05 air?
Good Thing aired 2013-05-12 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
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…