Just finished binge watching ‘Nurse Jackie’.
Edie Falco (who is always terrific) is an emergency room nurse who has an opioid addiction. She is a throughly unlikable character who refuses to stay sober and doesn’t seem to care in the least about the destruction she leaves in her wake. She wrecks her marriage, has an affair with the hospital’s pharmacist to get drugs, alienates her two daughters (to be fair, the older daughter is no prize herself), uses everyone in her life to hide and sustain her addiction. About halfway through the third series, I was actively hoping she’d get hit by a bus.
Why are such awful characters so compelling?
Boru
Edie Falco (who is always terrific) is an emergency room nurse who has an opioid addiction. She is a throughly unlikable character who refuses to stay sober and doesn’t seem to care in the least about the destruction she leaves in her wake. She wrecks her marriage, has an affair with the hospital’s pharmacist to get drugs, alienates her two daughters (to be fair, the older daughter is no prize herself), uses everyone in her life to hide and sustain her addiction. About halfway through the third series, I was actively hoping she’d get hit by a bus.
Why are such awful characters so compelling?
Boru
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