I Hate Titles

       I really, seriously hate Jackie. Whenever I watch the show, I just want to reach through my screen and punch her. Grace, her kid, is 11 years old and freaked about turning into a psycopath. She's having constant nightmares, pulling out her own hair, locking herself away, having a meltdown if her pencil breaks. More cringy stuff like that. What's Jackie's solution? Gobble up all the pills prescribed for her kid.
      We're all in pain. I'm in pain, my family's in pain, I can't throw a rock and not hit someone in pain. You suck it up, you deal with it, you don't steal medication. Not from your child, not from your patient, not from a random stranger in the middle of a seizure.

      That was one of two episodes I watched today. Also, Jackie has a boyfriend on the side; not to mention she will kiss an enemy on the lips. She has a double or a triple private life. Her husband admits to an affair and she tells him to pack his bags.

      Thank goodness for the other characters. They are the only reason I've gotten to season 4. I do like Gloria. She's by-the-book, she's a hardass, then she turns off a switch and dances for a baby.

      Gloria's awesome. I like Jackie's kids, I'm starting to feel for Kevin. Never liked Zoey, and I like Thor a little less since he began to sing. But I'm also a little anti-life, turns out. Who saw that coming?

      But more similarities are the episode with both a Carl, and a Walker; and in House MD, there's a kid named Walker. In an episode with a missing baby. The baby Gloria dances for, well, he's not missing, but his parents are.

      I think the worst part about this show is how Jackie can do anything she wants without repercussion. I mean, yeah, she's on probation right now. But her friend realizes that she's been taking her child's meds, shrugs it off, gives Jackie more meds. Everybody bends the rules, everybody tiptoes around her, everybody gives her meds.

      I like House. But the thing is, everybody knows who and what House is. They know about his addiction. He's a jerk, yes. But he owns up to it. He's an addict, yes. But there are actually conse-quences. He actually goes to court, he goes to jail, he goes to rehab, and people actually refuse to give him drugs. Sure, he took med-ication from a dead guy once, but when he saw that mother strangling her baby, his first thought wasn't, "I'm going to steal her meds while no one's looking at me." The guy dropped his cane and fucking ran to the bedside just as fast as a person with two good legs.

      When I first started watching Nurse Jackie, I thought I could do a crossover. But that wouldn't be interesting. The doctors in House have some scruples. Jackie chewed gum she had pushed down the drain trying to rescue a pill, she took pills she had stuffed in her socks for a full shift, and this might be a goof, but when she was washing her hands, she didn't grab the soap. She didn't turn on the water. No way would House let that slide.

      Edit (15th at 4 AM): Wow. Another Mr. Decker, and Zoey was called Chloe. This shit's getting too weird! 😂