Nurse Jackie
I Say a Little Prayer
TV Flash files “I Say a Little Prayer” as a desk essential hour — Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) on Showtime, season 7, episode 12, aired 2015-06-28, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E12: listed hour 80 of 80 in the Nurse Jackie guide, last listed hour of season 7. It aired 2015-06-28 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Vigilante Jones” (S07E11). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “I Say a Little Prayer”. I Say a Little Prayer is the closer whose title still sparks argument — the series-ending choice people litigate, Merritt Wever's Zoey as the conscience in the room.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The series concludes with an unexpected guest surprising everyone at Fiona's confirmation rehearsal. Meanwhile, on the last day at All Saints Jackie is offered a job at Bellevue and asks Zoey to come with her.
Viewer FAQ
Where does I Say a Little Prayer sit in the Nurse Jackie guide?
S07E12 is listed hour 80 of 80 — last listed hour of season 7, season 7 episode 12.
When did Nurse Jackie S07E12 air?
I Say a Little Prayer aired 2015-06-28 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…