We’ve spent nearly three seasons following around masterful escape artist, drug addict, and wonderful nurse Jackie Peyton, a buzzsaw with a pixie cut with double lives and double-double lives. How she manages to keep everything straight and think on her toes as well as she does, I’ll never know, but what I do know is that the walls are finally starting to close in on our favorite junkie. After a couple of false starts toward getting Jackie clean, her stunt with Kelly and the unaccounted for medicine may come back to bite her in the butt, as this week found suspicion gathering with next week featuring Jackie being suspended.
It’ll be interesting to see how the show handles this development. Season three has been slow-ish in terms of plot development, though progress has been made, and to see Jackie actually have to face serious concrete consequences for her often heinous actions would be worth the near misses. I don’t know if the show will go fully go down the path of having Jackie repent for her ways, mostly because the entire show is hinged on having her be this monster, but I think we may get to see even more chinks in the increasingly rusty armor that Jackie has been lugging around. She's wearing down right now, both physically and mentally, and we see that with her actions (walking down a road filled with traffic, leaving her emergency stash for Kevin to find, etc.).
While some will rightfully decry Jackie Peyton as being a whole lot of things, she's not been as irredeemable as she has been in the past. She recognizes her problem and she's taking steps to correct it, though going cold turkey after constantly popping anything you can get your hands off isn't exactly looking like a successful way to beat drug addiction. I would watch Edie Falco read the dictionary for 30 minutes a week, so letting her delve into the psychology of someone so damaged and desperate should make the final few episodes of this season a sight to behold.
Do you think Jackie will face any consequences this season? How do you think the season will end? Are you excited that it got renewed for a fourth season?
It’ll be interesting to see how the show handles this development. Season three has been slow-ish in terms of plot development, though progress has been made, and to see Jackie actually have to face serious concrete consequences for her often heinous actions would be worth the near misses. I don’t know if the show will go fully go down the path of having Jackie repent for her ways, mostly because the entire show is hinged on having her be this monster, but I think we may get to see even more chinks in the increasingly rusty armor that Jackie has been lugging around. She's wearing down right now, both physically and mentally, and we see that with her actions (walking down a road filled with traffic, leaving her emergency stash for Kevin to find, etc.).
While some will rightfully decry Jackie Peyton as being a whole lot of things, she's not been as irredeemable as she has been in the past. She recognizes her problem and she's taking steps to correct it, though going cold turkey after constantly popping anything you can get your hands off isn't exactly looking like a successful way to beat drug addiction. I would watch Edie Falco read the dictionary for 30 minutes a week, so letting her delve into the psychology of someone so damaged and desperate should make the final few episodes of this season a sight to behold.
Do you think Jackie will face any consequences this season? How do you think the season will end? Are you excited that it got renewed for a fourth season?
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