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Created by Liz Brixius, Evan Dunsky, and Linda Wallem — and notable as one of the best Showtime original series – "Nurse Jackie" is a defining show of the "antihero wave" that took over prestige television at the turn of the 2010s. Starring Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, a capable nurse at New York City's fictional All Saints Hospital who manages to get by functionally despite a drug habit, "Nurse Jackie" became a critical and audience success with its darkly comical tale of dysfunction and skirted accountability.

Although the subversive medical storytelling on "Nurse Jackie" is deeply emblematic of a particular period in TV history, it has proven to be a show with enormous staying power, as evidenced by the sequel series reported t

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