Nurse Jackie "School Nurse"

Nurse Jackie has been continually good, but if it doesn't start getting better, I may lose interest. The first episode was definitely the best so far and the other ones have been good, not great. The problem is that there is much less development going on and I would really like to know more about our characters. On with the recap-

We open with another boring Jackie voiceover. Pretentious hospital jokes, blah, blah, blah, I hate being a nurse, but I love it anyway, blah, blah, blah. Suddenly, Jackie is disturbed when she notices a kid has been wheeled in. The kid fell off something in a playground and Momo lifts him onto a bed. Meanwhile, Cooper (Coop, for short) rejoices over the fact that his new case is somebody with a gunshot wound. Cheery.

Zoey is left to reassure the mother and twin that everything is okay. As always it is when O'Hara walks in and tells them that he's stabilized, but he'll have to undergo some testing to make sure. Jackie tells them that it's okay because everything always is. The mother and child are so happy that they begin to cry and Jackie tells Zoey to hug them. So far, it seems as though Zoey's internship at the hospital has been pointless so far because all she has done is find missing ears and comfort a patient's relatives.

Kevin calls Jackie and tells her that Grace's teachers want to meet with them. She says she'll get there as fast she can until Eddie stops her in the hall. She makes a lame excuse as to why she can't have sex with him that nobody would ever believe if they ever knew Jackie.

Momo and Zoey have a conversation about twins. Momo mentions that he once had a twin, but he died when Momo was young. The only reason I'm mentioning this is because it sounds important later on.

Jackie reaches Kevin at the school. The sit down and have a meeting with a teacher, the school nurse, and the district psychologist. They have all concluded that Grace has anxiety disorder based on a picture that she has drawn that is monotone and missing a sun and the fact that she walks around her desk three times to make sure planes don't fall out of the sky. Maybe she forgot to do that ritual the day that Oceanic Flight 815 fell to the "Lost" island. Jackie is offended by this conclusion and confronts the school nurse about it. After she gives her some lies about accepting her daughter's disorder, Jackie curses her out in front of an elementary schooler. Isn't Jackie such a great person? A little while later she gets a text from Eddie reading "Me so horny." What is this? The 40 Year Old Virgin? Remember that line..."She was the nastiest Asian fuck. She would always say 'Awww, me so horny, me wove you wong time." Haha. Ah, Steve Carrell.

This text prompts Jackie to buy another phone--one for Kevin, one for Eddie. This is the setup for a joke in which they both call her at the same time and she says to both of them "Can't talk right now, love you, bye." Pretty funny, actually.

After the little boy is completely recovered, the twin hugs O'Hara and won't let go. As usual, she doesn't know how to react other than to leave him with Zoey. Zoey then becomes preoccupied with a patient after she asks for an interesting case. The woman dies, not because of Zoey, though and as one would expect, Zoey cries. Jackie finds this and says "Everybody has their first. I remember mine. Nursing is hard and when it gets easy, it's time to retire." and then leaves. This would be the clip I would show at the Emmy Award if I could pick one.

Jackie concludes not to give Grace anti-anxiety medicine. She takes a highliter and draws a sun in her picture. Because that will make everything better, right?

"School Nurse" Grade: B+