Jackie falls off the wagon with a resounding thud and manages to alienate her children, her boyfriend, her coworkers and her new sponsor in the process. Jackie realizes sobriety is the ultimate cover for getting high, and now she's saving lives at work, taking care of her kids, and her boyfriend is loving the new her. She's got everyone fooled, but what goes up must come down.
Watching Jackie go back on the drugs, lying to her support group as well as her current better-than-she-deserves cop boyfriend Frank (Adam Ferrara), you can't help but get a dispiriting feeling of been-there, snorted-that.
Nurse Jackie is a bracing, fascinating character study that, so far, has rejected denial about addiction with as much vigor as Jackie has held onto it.