Mandy Force exactly, nurse Jackie was the most realistic TV series about hidden painkiller addiction among women I have ever seen. High functioning addicts that are not a total mess like how addiction is usually shown on tv
Joseph Hernandez It could have ended on a more positive note, but this is the sad reality for so many. By the time an addictive reaches rock bottom, you have nothing but revulsion for them, all the compassion that you once had is gone.
My dad was a fantastic nurse. Helped thousands of patients in his 30 years but the addiction was stronger. Alcohol was his downfall so this whole show and especially this ending really got to me
Jackies whole world came crashing down in the final episode, She lost her kids,she lost Gloria, she lost Eddie,She lost Zoey,and finally She lost her home AllSaints hospital. She intentionally wanted to overdose.She lost it all and in the end she lost her life.Very sad I love this show because it takes you on a journey through the life and death of a drug addict
For all who speculate the open ended ending... she died. Episode 1 opening, she quotes TS Eliott... "let us go, you and I...". If you read that literary work to completion, that poem ends that once awakened by the voices and realizing the mistakes, he drowns. She hears the voice from everyone how she has let them down... her husband, children, AA, Rehab, law, trust of nursing profession, her faith, her administrator, Zoey, Ohara, and Eddie. She prays Augustine's prayer, "Make me good god but not yet" once, but then it is followed by the prayer of just "make me good." She accepts her fate and is ready to give in. Her earthly pleasures held her back but being bound through only death is all that will remove her addiction. She gives in to it once she drowning and is too far in to fix it. Zoeys voice calls her to awakening, as TS Elliot describes, only to realize she has overdosed. It was like a dream, her hallucinatory walk through previous patients thats shes saved, and with many who are like her she lays down, only to be awakened to a very real reality that she is in final stage of illness and life, and no matter all she saved, she couldnt save herself and neither can anyone else. On the yoga like mats she doesnt just lay down to die, but metaphoricaaly she is the statistical one of many in front of that american flag. There is an open spot for her to fall in the group of many... as good as she is she is no different and addictio doesnt discriminate. Theres a spot for her just like every other addict. Opiate and drug addiction is a major problem in this country and it consumes many more than are ever saved. Every person who runs to her, even Zoey, calls for help, but they all only kneel at her side after asking for resucitation equipment. They are not trying to save her but accept and reassure her they care but "you're good" because the only restraint is death. The attemot to save is a knee jerk reflex... they simply go through the motions to begin saving her but the effort halts. Thor has the IV but doesnt place it, there's a nurse, the doctor brings oxygen but never puts it on. Everything to save her is there but they stop... sending her to Bellevue will end her employment before it starts, and its less cruel to accept that no matter the extent of help to save her they can't, so at least she dies with those most invested in her as a person, despite exhausted efforts to support her sobriety. Jackie gives a look of approval and appears to seize. Her only identity is as a nurse, and she sheds her stethoscope, watch, and badge because she even says in a previous episode "if im not a nurse, im nothing." She dies with her hospital and moving foward she will not establish enablers so deeply, and again she will inevitably find herself losing until its all gone. Its better to lose all that she has while she has the chance, before the hospital closes among those she's hurt, to soothe their worry. She owes it to them to know, instead of ponder and worry how she is... even the audience. It is sad when an addict dies, but many who have lived it will tell you the relief they feel because the worry is gone. I think the intro to episode 1 is the end, she's good, shes pure, and she begins to tell the story and account for how she's gotten in so deep until she can't get out. Edie Falco said she wanted her to die because Jackie wasnt giving her all to sobriety or recovery. The network softened the end down, because just like real life, many people cannot handle the harsh reality of death caused by addiction. Dying is a more common outcome than recovery. Its sad, and she wanted viewers to feel the loss just as it is in real life. That was her message.
Extremely well written, this was an indeed intricate detailing and I felt every iota of reliving watching this series; and what a series it was! One of my favorite shows ever and the last episode left me feeling like what a journey this was!
@@ivyedan7183 Jackie made a awesome heel in this show! Dumping Frank kicking him out putting Antoinette in rehab breaking up with Kevin. Anyone else love how she turned heel on the people she loves? Can't forget about the time Jackie almost pulled a Ken Shamrock on Coop in Season 1 epic stuff! Miss this show.
The same song is used for the first ever scene of the show and the last ever scene. It goes to show that Jackie truly made no progress throughout the show - that she is still afflicted and affected by the disease of addiction.
It hurts so bad, combined with the prior "I've been going to Al-anon. I've learned so much about you.... And no, I don't want to work with you anymore."
I've watched this entire series all the way through twice. About to finish the third time. I will never ever get tired of it and this scene will never ever fail to make me sob
I've watched it through several times, too, and every time I love it just as much and every time the ending (whether or not she dies) is just as devastating every time.
She passed the kid with the green hair whose name I forget and Sister Helen on the way to Times Square. Not sure if there were other dead characters I missed in that scene. She died.
timmyr1000 I think she was just responding to Zoey telling her she was good. Jackie finally accepted that a nurse wasn't only who she was, and Zoey saying she was good confirmed that for her.
+Kurt Boyd And there was the bike messenger weaving in and out. There were at least two bike messenger patients in the series, the one who died and the one Jackie and Coop saved.
+timmyr1000 Jackie prayed in the 1st episode to God, "Please make me good -just not yet." - In the beginning of the final episode, she prays, "Make me good" - The way she opened her eyes in Times Square and fluttered was an indication that she came out of the hallucination to hear Zooey's PROFOUND words, "You're good" and to see Zooey's face. These were the final things she heard and saw as the camera pans out . Also, if there was ANY hope, wouldn't all the doctors be trying to revive her and rushing like mad to get her onto the gurney for transport to Belleview etc...
Terribly sad ending. I loved the character for her compassion and her willingness to bend the rules to do the right thing. On the other hand, her addiction ruined her marriage, strained her relationships almost cost her career and in the end killed her. An example of life imitating art perhaps.
Joel Rodriguez unfortunately, like you said, the show had to end like this, nurse Jackie has always been a completely realistic portrayal of a secret addiction in a hard-working mum. In real life there are no simple happy ending. Addiction is a complex, multi-layered issue
I just binge watched this entire series in a week and throughout I continued to struggle with how I felt about Jackie. I loved her, then hated her, then loved her, then despised her, and at the end I felt so sorry for her. I love how she continued to say "if I'm not a nurse then I'm nothing," and yet at the very end, she gets her wish, she can still be a nurse, but it's the reality of life alone without her friends, Eddie, Kevin, her girls...that's what pushed her over the edge and made her decide not to live anymore. I know the creators leave it up to interpretation whether she lives or not, but in my mind she died. There are no medications there (Narcan), and if there's one thing we know about Jackie it's that she knew how much to take/not to take. She knew that that much heroin would kill her before she could get help, and Zoe and the rest of them knew she was gonna die. So sad and such a real example of addiction. Bravo.
Exactly, I agree. She knew what she was doing. The man she got the drugs from had Overdosed more than once, through out the show. When I saw her make the third line, I thought "Jackie, No! What are you doing?!?" Then, realized she wanted to die amongst her friends. Perhaps, save Eddie from prison, good example of her being a Saint, one last time.
Not sure if anyone else had this thought, but it's also very reminiscent of the way the nurse with cancer came back to All Saints to be with her fellow nurses and to commit suicide, rather than die alone in her apartment. Jackie knew this was her last moment to be a nurse and to be with those whom she loves and fought with "in the trenches," and just felt it was her time to go on her own terms. Sadly poignant.
@@bubbaXzone Me too. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought I'd have a hard time seeing Edie Falco as anyone but Carmella Soprano. She's an amazing actress.
A very powerful ending. I notice she shed her nursing stuff - the stethoscope, her nurses ID badge, and her watch - before she left in her dream. Dr. O'Hara told her earlier in the episode she was only at her best when she was high, so she shouldn't be a nurse. Jackie replied that a nurse was who she was. Jackie giving up her nursing items was her accepting she wasn't a nurse. Also, when she was walking outside (at 1:45 in the video),did anyone else notice the green hair guy walking by? I think it was a clue she wasn't in reality. It was Charlie.
Thank you for sharing. Nurse Jackie was an example of what happens to the majority of addicts; death. It’s always nice to see folks make it through. I spent a decade of my life using opiates and most other drugs. Everything you think happens in an addicts life, happened. Overdoses, rehabs, jail stays, big legal trouble, losing loved ones, being homeless, degrading myself, death, etc. I am 27 years old and have been clean for 1 year and almost 4 months. I’m also engaged to someone I’ve known since high school and has seen me at my worst and somehow still wants to spend her life with me. I’m one of the lucky ones.
I am myself a nurse and in my 22 years have met every single character in this show. More realistic than any other medical show I have ever watched from ER to Chicago Med.
After catching up on the last season over the last week and reading many comments on the finale, this was truly a great show. Well written with hidden clues, especially at the very end. I would have to agree with many who said she died. Thought it through after watching, too many telltale hints that she did not survive. Six Feet Under had a great last episode and scene, this one beats it. That look on Zoey's face when Jackie leaves the bathroom and the Valley of the Dolls song. Wow! Television at its finest.
That spot where Jackie stands outside the bathroom, as the camera pans around her - that's where she collapses, and her near death experience begins. This ending haunted me for a while. So beautiful.
JoshNortonalias it was meant to be interpreted either way and purposefully and artfully left ambiguous, but the creators of the show disagree with you and said she lived
JoshNortonalias you’re wrong but ok “Clyde Phillips, exec producer and showrunner of “Jackie” for its final three seasons, said the final shot was left open to interpretation on purpose. But in his mind, she is still alive.” Also the alternate ending that they were shooting until halfway through the last season, she also survived.
JoshNortonalias ask all 30 or so writers that worked on the show what their interpretations of it are, and you’ll get 30 different answers. However ask the show runner (their boss) and it’s pretty clear.
In the very first scene of the first episode of Nurse Jackie, she's praying to God to make her good. In the very last scene of the last episode, it was answered thru Zoey. "You're good".
I didn't because I presumed she survived. But after reading all these comments and learning that the serious is not going to be picked up, I realize I was so very wrong. I think she took too much in reaction to Zoey not wanting to work with her anymore. How real is that. Fuck what a great show. I keep re-watching it and moving for scenes that include Zoe it because Merritt Weaver is such a wonderful actress. Don't know what she's done lately.
I'm crying now, again I had hoped for a positive ending, but like a Flannery O'Connor short story, no go. What is sad as well is that all the people in Times Square on the mats doing Tai Chi or whatever represent so many people that have died from opiate abuse, and much of it is "legally" prescribed My counselor (and I don't take pills) said, I think, one person dies in Canada every 4 hours on average from an opiate overdose
I love the development of Zoey's character on so many levels, from being a total scared greenhorn to helping Jackie and her daughters, and becoming a tried and true nurse with fortitude.
This happens so frequently in nursing probably much more then people realize. Some places just slip it under the carpet and many get a discipline from the state ,pass the required rehab and sometimes license back with restrictions on passing narcs. You just have no idea what goes on in nursing care facilities and the stress is unreal. Tough jobs and burn you out jobs.
+Marcia Mazzarella The hospital shut down. She'd have to go to a place where nobody knew her. Getting a second chance from someone who doesn't even know you is unlikely at best.
Jacob Wallace Exactly so even if she survived, she would just be Jackie. She was shitty at being a parent, wife, and a friend, but she was always great at being a nurse, and without that title, she minus well be dead.
my mother is a lot like Jackie, without the nursing profession. this gets me so hard every time. the convo zoey had with her was something i had to have with my mom... and i'm afraid for her and what she'll do in her life. but i can't worry about her anymore. That being said, I can't help but cry at this. I related to both Zoey and Grace and this show really pulled my heart strings.
I'll never forget watching this with my boyfriend and sitting in silence until I said "so ...she died" and I immediately broke down as he comforted me, just heartbreaking is what it is
I have a theory also. If people only saw what goes on in nursing care facilities on the midnight shifts they would be freakin shocked. 50% of RN supervisors are addicts. Not all facilities but quite a few. Maybe it is just a recent thing because thirty years ago it was not that prevalent. Now nursing industry attracts so many loose cannons.
I had to re watch the first and last episodes. This was beautifully made! On the last episode Dr. O'Hara says something like "This is not moving on, this is moving in a circle" which is exactly what they did with the series finale. It ends the same way that it began...with the same song and Jackie laying on the floor after taking drugs. Plus Zoey telling her that she was good! PERFECT
I was really hoping for a good ending for the character, but I knew it wouldn't happen as soon as I saw her take those pills after she got her nursing license back. If she hadn't hit bottom after everything she had been through, there was really only one place to go. Popular 12 Step fellowships have a mantra, "Jails, institutions, and death." She checked off the first two already. There were so many clues that she was actually dying, which makes for an honest, conclusive ending in my mind.
Loved the endinf...the show shows you that addiction is a real problem here in America.....the show was so real...and im a recovering Heroin addict...thank God for Narcan....
I couldn't stop watching and yet I couldn't stand Nurse Jackie...she was so unfair to everyone except her English friend...He English friend knew like no other..
wow it still hits me.......it is a visual audio poetry of tragedy and the beauty of the character all in all. I think for the first time I felt what it might be like to be consumed by an addiction that lives about you like a shadow of yourself. I miss Jackie and her friends, family and challenges.......and I pray for people out there hurting........
There was a time when I was envious of Jackie in the final scene. I have watched it over 100 times. I think Jackie purposely overdosed because she believes her loved ones are better off without her in their lives. She smiles as she slips away to a blissful death knowing her pain is finally over. Addiction is a very painful life.
+Coderz Jackie was nothing if not extremely intelligent. I think she knew exactly how much to take in order to be a fatal dose. Her ending song "gotta get off this ride" is another key element to guessing what happened. Jackie committed suicide likely as a sick sense of mercy for all the strife she had caused and to not cause anymore. However, Jackie is also a very proud soul and she wasn't going to give up (commit suicide) until she regained her nurse status as it was not only what she did, it was her identity. Zoey's words were the last Jackie heard and it was a very poetic finisher to a profound series. What a ride.
Yep; if you're a druggie long enough it's probably going to catch up to you. That's what they were saying with the ending; it's not always a happy ending to drug abuse.
The day before O'Hara said her addiction was a vicious cycle and right before this scene you saw her standing in a corner not able to join in the fun. She couldn't celebrate the hospital closing because she didn't know what was next and was scared to death. And an addict she answered everything with using drugs, I don't think it was point blank suicide, but just the way an addict wants to take enough to actually be able to forget everything. She was desperate to get rid of all those negative emotions and therefore took more to compensate knowing the risks, but just desperate to get rid of those emotions.
this finale and Mad Men's - and Sopranos - all so good - love how they comment on American culture/the human experience. A lot of despair and disappointment in this country - these shows tap into that and yet make it entertaining. Not sure if that's sick or not, but the shows do make people feel less alone in their struggles. I have never had any drug or alcohol addiction, but I feel tremendous empathy for them. My neighbor just lost her son to heroin overdose. It is everywhere - rich, poor, etc. -and, of course, our govt. is complicit with the cartels, etc. What a great country! And we are supposedly better than most. Yikes.
Exactly Angie! Well said. Addiction doesn't discriminate. Black, white, yellow, purple, rich, poor. Addiction is a disease yes a fucking disease people that 8 million Americans suffer from. And heroin is the #1 drug out there now.
As an addict/alcoholic this show hit home more than I thought it ever would. It takes you through the life of an addict and those around her. I thought "she's not so bad. She's a nurse and was only arrested once" but forgot all the shit she fucked up within herself and others throughout the show. I forget that addiction affects everyone rich or poor, the same, just in different ways as it pertains to their life. It was like watching my own life through someone else's eyes in a different form of a different gender and class. Ughh 😭😭😭😭
Remember they played this very song in the very first opening scene of the season one premiere? I never made the connection first time around of course ( currently on the third rewatch). It was time to get off that merry go round.
I just finished binge-watching the entire 7 seasons. This final scene was moving, but a little confusing. I guess that was the whole point though. I think Zoe stole the scene.
when i first saw this episode i was PISSED. i was like “7 seasons and she cleared her name and she fucked it all up in the last 5 minutes!!!!?” but then afterwards.. it hit me. this is literally the best ending ever. i got into the show because i was going to school for nursing and thought “oh a nursing show. i’ll be able to relate” but after watching everything i realized it wasn’t about nursing. it was about addiction and the constant battles people have. this ending was perfect for me because we don’t know if she made it. or she went to rehab. or whatever. your mind goes to a million thoughts.
This ending was magical and thrilling and heartbreaking and so open ended!! Why Jackie? Got Dayum and on top of it all... She moves on to heroin??? Brilliant of the writers to show how she always reached out to drugs - Dr. Prince - and he is a prince (ya gotz to love Shalub) is fading away... She looses it! But dammit.... Heroin? Brilliant - a junkie is a junkie... And Jackie is a Junkie! I kept hoping All Saints would somehow stay open - and that Jackie would kick this addiction. And wow! Eddie really did love her!! Okay I'm rambling now and it's like 4:00 am - just finished binge watching a final episodes... Epic ending!! And KD Lang singing the Valley of the Dolls song? Huh! Drop da mike!!!!!!🎤
This show was mine and my mother’s comfort show…she died a year ago of a lethal dose of oxy she was prescribed things just aren’t the same anymore..really makes me see things differently.
Again, this is another good show, where I find myself cheering when the main character gets what they deserve. I love the other characters. And I always get mixed feelings.
Are you saying Jackie deserved to die? And if so please elaborate. Because I guarantee you KRISTY someone in your life is an addict. You just don't know it yet. There are 8 million addicts in the US alone. Don't put someone down for something you don't understand!
does anyone know where I can find the song playing in the background while they're all partying in the hospital? I know it's called Wild Life by Jacqui Sandell, but I can't find it anywhere and I Neeeeed it!
I honestly don't know why I keep watching this scene. It breaks my heart and leaves me crying like a baby, but every once in a while I'll pull it up. My mother died similarly three years ago, and we'll never know if it was intentional or not. I really grew to love and hate Jackie over the course of the series, and my feelings for my mom are unresolved in that way too I guess.
The way I look at it is: whether or not Jackie lives or dies, her life is over the moment the finale ends. If she dies, obviously so, but if she survives, she would never work as a nurse again. She'd probably never get to see her kids again. Eddie's going off to jail, so she'd be truly alone. She'd have no reason to ever attempt sobriety again. Eight years later, it's still one of the best finales I've ever seen. It's super risky for a show to end on a note this bleak and this harrowing but it's so appropriate given the subject matter. Truly unlike anything else there ever was on TV.
Actually, if you watch the very end of the clip, nobody was actually trying to help her. They didn't start a line, give her oxygen or put her on a gurney. They just comforted her.
I never liked Jackie, but the ending made me fucking cry. It was the fact that she died with everyone that she hurt in the past and hurt at that moment. What breaks me though is that even after all the pain that happens in that moment, everyone is still there for her.
How did you watch all 7 seasons and come to that conclusion? ADDICTION killed her. That's what this show was about. The life of a high functioning addict and how it eventually kills you.
Was hoping for a happy ending and Jackie stayed clean, but at the same time I had a feeling she'd end up having an overdose and die. The ending made me feel sad and I didn't like it how it ended, but it was a great series overall.
Season 1, episode 1, Jackie (quoting Saint Augustine): "Please, God, make me good..but not yet" Season 7, episode 12 (opening), Jackie: "Please, God, make me good" Season 7, episode 12 (ending), Zoey: "You're good, Jackie...you're good"
How sad, and the K.D. Lang song is beautiful. Her voice is like silk. I'm heartbroken; I thought she would make it and come out clean 112 people in Vermont alone died from opiate abuse in 2016. There is a new treatment center in Franklin County (North, near the CA Border,) and they are treating maybe 500 clients at present
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The ending is supposed to upset/anger/frustrate you.
That's addiction, folks.
Mandy Force exactly, nurse Jackie was the most realistic TV series about hidden painkiller addiction among women I have ever seen. High functioning addicts that are not a total mess like how addiction is usually shown on tv
@@ciarabrown1412 bingo!
I didn't like how Nurse Jackie ended
It really is tho.
Joseph Hernandez It could have ended on a more positive note, but this is the sad reality for so many. By the time an addictive reaches rock bottom, you have nothing but revulsion for them, all the compassion that you once had is gone.
I was devastated. She could save all of those patients but she couldn't save herself.
steve b I know that exact feeing! It’s a horrible disease. We have so much love kindness & empathy towards others yet never give ourselves a break.
My dad was a fantastic nurse. Helped thousands of patients in his 30 years but the addiction was stronger. Alcohol was his downfall so this whole show and especially this ending really got to me
ironic. just like darth plaguis
@@Klayhamn Damnit you stole my thought lol
That's bc she was a drug addict
Jackies whole world came crashing down in the final episode, She lost her kids,she lost Gloria, she lost Eddie,She lost Zoey,and finally She lost her home AllSaints hospital. She intentionally wanted to overdose.She lost it all and in the end she lost her life.Very sad I love this show because it takes you on a journey through the life and death of a drug addict
I don't remember her saying she was losing her home
+Matthew Scholnick your missing the point her home was All Saints hospital I was not talking about her physical home in Queens
I also think she intentionally overdosed
Aragon Buckle Yes, she knew how much would kill her!
Foxy Boop - she's a nurse! She had to!
I just finished watching nurse jackie, now i don't know what to do with my life
Live every day like it's your last
Yep same here, just finished watching it the other night.
I was rooting for Jackie to beat this thing...now she's gone and I'm devastated..I feel like I died.
Watch it again. I did 😄 It's that good.
@@stephaniefarrar3133 its so addicting
For all who speculate the open ended ending... she died. Episode 1 opening, she quotes TS Eliott... "let us go, you and I...". If you read that literary work to completion, that poem ends that once awakened by the voices and realizing the mistakes, he drowns. She hears the voice from everyone how she has let them down... her husband, children, AA, Rehab, law, trust of nursing profession, her faith, her administrator, Zoey, Ohara, and Eddie. She prays Augustine's prayer, "Make me good god but not yet" once, but then it is followed by the prayer of just "make me good." She accepts her fate and is ready to give in. Her earthly pleasures held her back but being bound through only death is all that will remove her addiction. She gives in to it once she drowning and is too far in to fix it. Zoeys voice calls her to awakening, as TS Elliot describes, only to realize she has overdosed. It was like a dream, her hallucinatory walk through previous patients thats shes saved, and with many who are like her she lays down, only to be awakened to a very real reality that she is in final stage of illness and life, and no matter all she saved, she couldnt save herself and neither can anyone else. On the yoga like mats she doesnt just lay down to die, but metaphoricaaly she is the statistical one of many in front of that american flag. There is an open spot for her to fall in the group of many... as good as she is she is no different and addictio doesnt discriminate. Theres a spot for her just like every other addict. Opiate and drug addiction is a major problem in this country and it consumes many more than are ever saved. Every person who runs to her, even Zoey, calls for help, but they all only kneel at her side after asking for resucitation equipment. They are not trying to save her but accept and reassure her they care but "you're good" because the only restraint is death. The attemot to save is a knee jerk reflex... they simply go through the motions to begin saving her but the effort halts. Thor has the IV but doesnt place it, there's a nurse, the doctor brings oxygen but never puts it on. Everything to save her is there but they stop... sending her to Bellevue will end her employment before it starts, and its less cruel to accept that no matter the extent of help to save her they can't, so at least she dies with those most invested in her as a person, despite exhausted efforts to support her sobriety. Jackie gives a look of approval and appears to seize. Her only identity is as a nurse, and she sheds her stethoscope, watch, and badge because she even says in a previous episode "if im not a nurse, im nothing." She dies with her hospital and moving foward she will not establish enablers so deeply, and again she will inevitably find herself losing until its all gone. Its better to lose all that she has while she has the chance, before the hospital closes among those she's hurt, to soothe their worry. She owes it to them to know, instead of ponder and worry how she is... even the audience. It is sad when an addict dies, but many who have lived it will tell you the relief they feel because the worry is gone. I think the intro to episode 1 is the end, she's good, shes pure, and she begins to tell the story and account for how she's gotten in so deep until she can't get out. Edie Falco said she wanted her to die because Jackie wasnt giving her all to sobriety or recovery. The network softened the end down, because just like real life, many people cannot handle the harsh reality of death caused by addiction. Dying is a more common outcome than recovery. Its sad, and she wanted viewers to feel the loss just as it is in real life. That was her message.
Amanda Baldwin very well written mate
Extremely well written, this was an indeed intricate detailing and I felt every iota of reliving watching this series; and what a series it was! One of my favorite shows ever and the last episode left me feeling like what a journey this was!
You are awesome
Perfectly said
Man that is so sad. But ultimately, it is nice. A softening blow the way you wrotr that for us all to read. Thank you. P.s. Are you god?
Tid bit of information: the last yoga pose she is doing is called "corpse pose."
Enjoy Life with Me wow...
She's a goner! I called it...
Foxy Boop yep, she started to seize at the end
For those in the know...thank you for that☆
@@ivyedan7183 Jackie made a awesome heel in this show! Dumping Frank kicking him out putting Antoinette in rehab breaking up with Kevin. Anyone else love how she turned heel on the people she loves? Can't forget about the time Jackie almost pulled a Ken Shamrock on Coop in Season 1 epic stuff! Miss this show.
Possibly the best final scene of any television series.
The same song is used for the first ever scene of the show and the last ever scene. It goes to show that Jackie truly made no progress throughout the show - that she is still afflicted and affected by the disease of addiction.
Dude, thank you!
Did anyone notice that also the patient in the 1st episode/ pilot, is the same guy in the bicycle that pass in front of her at the end?
That is why i stopped watching nothing really changed from season to season
Yoshi more yeah it usually doesn’t... most addicts never get clean for good. Relapse after relapse. I think maybe that was the point? Idk
@@dr_mantis_toboggan9796 the storyline it self was repetitive. After watching several seasons i gave up
The way Zoey looks at her when she exits the bathroom breaks my heart every time :(
It hurts so bad, combined with the prior "I've been going to Al-anon. I've learned so much about you.... And no, I don't want to work with you anymore."
Cyril Figgis I know 😢 And her final words to Jackie. UGH.
Cause she knew😪
The look just SCREAMS *Your never going to change* 😭
Really because she was on the way down at the time. We were seeing her life flash before her eyes, but Zoey saw her collapse.
I've watched this entire series all the way through twice. About to finish the third time. I will never ever get tired of it and this scene will never ever fail to make me sob
I've watched it through several times, too, and every time I love it just as much and every time the ending (whether or not she dies) is just as devastating every time.
She passed the kid with the green hair whose name I forget and Sister Helen on the way to Times Square. Not sure if there were other dead characters I missed in that scene. She died.
+Kurt Boyd I saw that too. I think they were clues she was dying.
timmyr1000
I think she was just responding to Zoey telling her she was good.
Jackie finally accepted that a nurse wasn't only who she was, and Zoey saying she was good confirmed that for her.
+Kurt Boyd And there was the bike messenger weaving in and out. There were at least two bike messenger patients in the series, the one who died and the one Jackie and Coop saved.
+dmarlow310 - The bike messenger weaving in and out is the same actor who played the messenger Dr Coop killed in the 1st episode. She died.
+timmyr1000 Jackie prayed in the 1st episode to God, "Please make me good -just not yet." - In the beginning of the final episode, she prays, "Make me good" - The way she opened her eyes in Times Square and fluttered was an indication that she came out of the hallucination to hear Zooey's PROFOUND words, "You're good" and to see Zooey's face. These were the final things she heard and saw as the camera pans out . Also, if there was ANY hope, wouldn't all the doctors be trying to revive her and rushing like mad to get her onto the gurney for transport to Belleview etc...
Terribly sad ending. I loved the character for her compassion and her willingness to bend the rules to do the right thing. On the other hand, her addiction ruined her marriage, strained her relationships almost cost her career and in the end killed her. An example of life imitating art perhaps.
she didnt die, but yes very true
@Jewelzzz WDW Actually, it's left ambiguous if she died or not.
MsKira1313 Edie Faldo has said that she died
She died.
This totally ruined my day..I really really wanted a happy ending for her..Love the show though...Addiction is real...
Joel Rodriguez unfortunately, like you said, the show had to end like this, nurse Jackie has always been a completely realistic portrayal of a secret addiction in a hard-working mum. In real life there are no simple happy ending. Addiction is a complex, multi-layered issue
I just binge watched this entire series in a week and throughout I continued to struggle with how I felt about Jackie. I loved her, then hated her, then loved her, then despised her, and at the end I felt so sorry for her.
I love how she continued to say "if I'm not a nurse then I'm nothing," and yet at the very end, she gets her wish, she can still be a nurse, but it's the reality of life alone without her friends, Eddie, Kevin, her girls...that's what pushed her over the edge and made her decide not to live anymore. I know the creators leave it up to interpretation whether she lives or not, but in my mind she died. There are no medications there (Narcan), and if there's one thing we know about Jackie it's that she knew how much to take/not to take. She knew that that much heroin would kill her before she could get help, and Zoe and the rest of them knew she was gonna die. So sad and such a real example of addiction. Bravo.
Hannah Green my hubby is binge watching it now..
That was spot on my interpretation as well.😢
Hannah Green me too. Just finiahed
Exactly, I agree. She knew what she was doing. The man she got the drugs from had Overdosed more than once, through out the show. When I saw her make the third line, I thought "Jackie, No! What are you doing?!?" Then, realized she wanted to die amongst her friends. Perhaps, save Eddie from prison, good example of her being a Saint, one last time.
Kelly Sue I had to rewatch the scene, I had no idea she was intending suicide. Sad ending.
Not sure if anyone else had this thought, but it's also very reminiscent of the way the nurse with cancer came back to All Saints to be with her fellow nurses and to commit suicide, rather than die alone in her apartment. Jackie knew this was her last moment to be a nurse and to be with those whom she loves and fought with "in the trenches," and just felt it was her time to go on her own terms. Sadly poignant.
fiercefunky and Jackie even stated at that time if it was her she'd want someone to do the same for her
Great show!
@@jessiestoss4567 Yea i wasn't sure if i was gonna like it but i watched whole thing and def was into it!
i need another show >:(
@@bubbaXzone Me too. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought I'd have a hard time seeing Edie Falco as anyone but Carmella Soprano. She's an amazing actress.
So sad. I was so attached with this show and all the characters. I feel like I work at All Saints too. Ugh. It's good to see Dr. O'hara.
Me toooo
"Make me good, God...but not yet"--
Jackie, Pilot episode
+Daniel Rodriguez Yes I think she finally needs to hear it from zoe that she's good, and it might be too late.
+Daniel Rodriguez Same song opens episode 1 as well.The scene was eerily similar to the last scene, with Jackie lying on the floor.
A very powerful ending. I notice she shed her nursing stuff - the stethoscope, her nurses ID badge, and her watch - before she left in her dream.
Dr. O'Hara told her earlier in the episode she was only at her best when she was high, so she shouldn't be a nurse. Jackie replied that a nurse was who she was. Jackie giving up her nursing items was her accepting she wasn't a nurse.
Also, when she was walking outside (at 1:45 in the video),did anyone else notice the green hair guy walking by? I think it was a clue she wasn't in reality. It was Charlie.
I think it was an allusion to the bike guy
Omgosh!!!! Yes!
@83rdox super late but I'm pretty sure that was the bike messenger that Dr. Coop didn't save.
I've had my own near-red mat experience. 4&1/2 years clean. There are 2 children that exist today because of it.
Thank you for sharing. Nurse Jackie was an example of what happens to the majority of addicts; death. It’s always nice to see folks make it through.
I spent a decade of my life using opiates and most other drugs. Everything you think happens in an addicts life, happened. Overdoses, rehabs, jail stays, big legal trouble, losing loved ones, being homeless, degrading myself, death, etc.
I am 27 years old and have been clean for 1 year and almost 4 months. I’m also engaged to someone I’ve known since high school and has seen me at my worst and somehow still wants to spend her life with me. I’m one of the lucky ones.
I watched this series twice and cried so hard at the end. I am a nurse. Omg, so realistic.
Witch One thank you !!!!!you are a hero,
I'll bet you know some just like her...
My niece is an assistant to nurses and she is a party hound...goes on vacation every chance she gets...forty-something and is still acting 16
I am myself a nurse and in my 22 years have met every single character in this show. More realistic than any other medical show I have ever watched from ER to Chicago Med.
@@brianharrison3676 me too , but that's because every personality is in nursing just like anywhere else ..
After catching up on the last season over the last week and reading many comments on the finale, this was truly a great show. Well written with hidden clues, especially at the very end. I would have to agree with many who said she died. Thought it through after watching, too many telltale hints that she did not survive. Six Feet Under had a great last episode and scene, this one beats it. That look on Zoey's face when Jackie leaves the bathroom and the Valley of the Dolls song. Wow! Television at its finest.
That spot where Jackie stands outside the bathroom, as the camera pans around her - that's where she collapses, and her near death experience begins. This ending haunted me for a while. So beautiful.
JoshNortonalias it was meant to be interpreted either way and purposefully and artfully left ambiguous, but the creators of the show disagree with you and said she lived
JoshNortonalias you’re wrong but ok “Clyde Phillips, exec producer and showrunner of “Jackie” for its final three seasons, said the final shot was left open to interpretation on purpose. But in his mind, she is still alive.” Also the alternate ending that they were shooting until halfway through the last season, she also survived.
JoshNortonalias ask all 30 or so writers that worked on the show what their interpretations of it are, and you’ll get 30 different answers. However ask the show runner (their boss) and it’s pretty clear.
In the very first scene of the first episode of Nurse Jackie, she's praying to God to make her good. In the very last scene of the last episode, it was answered thru Zoey. "You're good".
No she was going to hell lol
....and I cry everytime I hear Zoey say "You're good" .... ;___;
I cried for probably a full hour after watching that finale.
very sad ending ,
+Ethan Hart me too..
I didn't because I presumed she survived. But after reading all these comments and learning that the serious is not going to be picked up, I realize I was so very wrong. I think she took too much in reaction to Zoey not wanting to work with her anymore. How real is that. Fuck what a great show. I keep re-watching it and moving for scenes that include Zoe it because Merritt Weaver is such a wonderful actress. Don't know what she's done lately.
I'm crying now, again
I had hoped for a positive ending, but like a Flannery O'Connor short story, no go.
What is sad as well is that all the people in Times Square on the mats doing Tai Chi or whatever represent so many people that have died from opiate abuse, and much of it is "legally" prescribed
My counselor (and I don't take pills) said, I think, one person dies in Canada every 4 hours on average from an opiate overdose
I love the development of Zoey's character on so many levels, from being a total scared greenhorn to helping Jackie and her daughters, and becoming a tried and true nurse with fortitude.
Either way, it was the end of Nurse Jackie. Even if she survived, there's no way she'd keep her nursing liscence, so she'll just be Jackie.
This happens so frequently in nursing probably much more then people realize. Some places just slip it under the carpet and many get a discipline from the state ,pass the required rehab and sometimes license back with restrictions on passing narcs. You just have no idea what goes on in nursing care facilities and the stress is unreal. Tough jobs and burn you out jobs.
+Marcia Mazzarella The hospital shut down. She'd have to go to a place where nobody knew her. Getting a second chance from someone who doesn't even know you is unlikely at best.
Jacob Wallace Exactly so even if she survived, she would just be Jackie. She was shitty at being a parent, wife, and a friend, but she was always great at being a nurse, and without that title, she minus well be dead.
Thank goodness someone pointed it out
my mother is a lot like Jackie, without the nursing profession. this gets me so hard every time. the convo zoey had with her was something i had to have with my mom... and i'm afraid for her and what she'll do in her life. but i can't worry about her anymore. That being said, I can't help but cry at this. I related to both Zoey and Grace and this show really pulled my heart strings.
Linsaiin have you been to alanon meetings?
I'll never forget watching this with my boyfriend and sitting in silence until I said "so ...she died" and I immediately broke down as he comforted me, just heartbreaking is what it is
The way Zoey looked at her :( and I wonder what will happen to Grace and Fi
I never cried so hard in all my life
Finally, it all caught up with her...I got so sick of her dishonesty but yet expected perfection from everyone else..
I just realized something. the pilot opened up with her on the ground after taking drugs...this ending is kind of is fitting
I have a theory that all the people she saw outside in her dream represent people who've died of addiction
I have a theory also. If people only saw what goes on in nursing care facilities on the midnight shifts they would be freakin shocked. 50% of RN supervisors are addicts. Not all facilities but quite a few. Maybe it is just a recent thing because thirty years ago it was not that prevalent. Now nursing industry attracts so many loose cannons.
Makes sense. Charlie was there - he was the only one with that shade of toxic green hair. And he died of heroin too.
I thought that too
I had to re watch the first and last episodes. This was beautifully made! On the last episode Dr. O'Hara says something like "This is not moving on, this is moving in a circle" which is exactly what they did with the series finale. It ends the same way that it began...with the same song and Jackie laying on the floor after taking drugs. Plus Zoey telling her that she was good! PERFECT
Edie falco said " I think she died " so I'll take her word for it.
No she didn't. She said the opposite. "personally, I think she's alive" - a direct quote from Edie falco when interviewed by Hollywood reporter.
@@markalexander3659 m.ruclips.net/video/DN7_oBnjBBU/видео.html Stop with the misinformation.
This show was very under appreciated
And yet a brilliant show
Song is "theme from Valley of the Dolls" originally sung by Dionne Warwick whose version is the best..great song, great show, great ending..
+bizallin This version is KD Lang, I think.
yes, I love that movie
I noticed that too
This is addiction.. iv been battling it for 15yrs... I have a feeling that on day it will beat me, and that one day I won't get back up
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😁💚💚. Thank you so much for sharing
i fucking love this show
I was really hoping for a good ending for the character, but I knew it wouldn't happen as soon as I saw her take those pills after she got her nursing license back. If she hadn't hit bottom after everything she had been through, there was really only one place to go. Popular 12 Step fellowships have a mantra, "Jails, institutions, and death." She checked off the first two already. There were so many clues that she was actually dying, which makes for an honest, conclusive ending in my mind.
Loved the endinf...the show shows you that addiction is a real problem here in America.....the show was so real...and im a recovering Heroin addict...thank God for Narcan....
I couldn't stop watching and yet I couldn't stand Nurse Jackie...she was so unfair to everyone except her English friend...He English friend knew like no other..
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😁😁💚💚. Bless you Salma Sayed.
She never left the hospital...all those people she passed on the street were in her mind...they died on her watch..
The best show ever! I've watched it many times. Edie Falco is brilliant.
wow it still hits me.......it is a visual audio poetry of tragedy and the beauty of the character all in all. I think for the first time I felt what it might be like to be consumed by an addiction that lives about you like a shadow of yourself. I miss Jackie and her friends, family and challenges.......and I pray for people out there hurting........
There was a time when I was envious of Jackie in the final scene. I have watched it over 100 times. I think Jackie purposely overdosed because she believes her loved ones are better off without her in their lives. She smiles as she slips away to a blissful death knowing her pain is finally over. Addiction is a very painful life.
I'm so pissed at shows that end like this..... Don't know what happens next. Its like a cliff hanger!
+Coderz Jackie was nothing if not extremely intelligent. I think she knew exactly how much to take in order to be a fatal dose. Her ending song "gotta get off this ride" is another key element to guessing what happened. Jackie committed suicide likely as a sick sense of mercy for all the strife she had caused and to not cause anymore. However, Jackie is also a very proud soul and she wasn't going to give up (commit suicide) until she regained her nurse status as it was not only what she did, it was her identity. Zoey's words were the last Jackie heard and it was a very poetic finisher to a profound series. What a ride.
+Stephan “L0star” Sanderson
Perfectly said. 👏🏻
The most shittiest finale I had ever seen.
She ded. There is no next
Yep; if you're a druggie long enough it's probably going to catch up to you. That's what they were saying with the ending; it's not always a happy ending to drug abuse.
I just finished it on netflix. I'm in my feelings now. Smh. Damn you jackie
The day before O'Hara said her addiction was a vicious cycle and right before this scene you saw her standing in a corner not able to join in the fun. She couldn't celebrate the hospital closing because she didn't know what was next and was scared to death. And an addict she answered everything with using drugs, I don't think it was point blank suicide, but just the way an addict wants to take enough to actually be able to forget everything. She was desperate to get rid of all those negative emotions and therefore took more to compensate knowing the risks, but just desperate to get rid of those emotions.
I’ve never dealt with addiction myself. Yet the ending literally hurt to watch. Well done.
AGREEEEE 👍🏿😁💚
Bravo. This was a classic show!!!!
nastynupe Nupe!
Perfect combination of the right music for a great scene.
You're good, Jackie, you're good.
Perfect line
sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can't do it anymore.
what are some other good shows like this. the way the show catches you and keeps you so hooked. the end is so sad.. dont normally cry but wow😕
House
this finale and Mad Men's - and Sopranos - all so good - love how they comment on American culture/the human experience. A lot of despair and disappointment in this country - these shows tap into that and yet make it entertaining. Not sure if that's sick or not, but the shows do make people feel less alone in their struggles. I have never had any drug or alcohol addiction, but I feel tremendous empathy for them. My neighbor just lost her son to heroin overdose. It is everywhere - rich, poor, etc. -and, of course, our govt. is complicit with the cartels, etc. What a great country! And we are supposedly better than most. Yikes.
Exactly Angie! Well said. Addiction doesn't discriminate. Black, white, yellow, purple, rich, poor. Addiction is a disease yes a fucking disease people that 8 million Americans suffer from. And heroin is the #1 drug out there now.
god im actually in tears rn and I just saw this again last night, why did they have to make me feel things xD
As an addict/alcoholic this show hit home more than I thought it ever would. It takes you through the life of an addict and those around her. I thought "she's not so bad. She's a nurse and was only arrested once" but forgot all the shit she fucked up within herself and others throughout the show. I forget that addiction affects everyone rich or poor, the same, just in different ways as it pertains to their life. It was like watching my own life through someone else's eyes in a different form of a different gender and class. Ughh 😭😭😭😭
Remember they played this very song in the very first opening scene of the season one premiere? I never made the connection first time around of course ( currently on the third rewatch). It was time to get off that merry go round.
First episode was Dionne Warwick's original the finale was covered by KD Lang.
I just finished binge-watching the entire 7 seasons. This final scene was moving, but a little confusing. I guess that was the whole point though. I think Zoe stole the scene.
Definitely one of the best show endings!!! Left me in silence!
this scene always makes me fucking cry
Sad she spent all her life saving peoples lives. But the only one she couldn’t seem to save was her own.. loved this show.
when i first saw this episode i was PISSED. i was like “7 seasons and she cleared her name and she fucked it all up in the last 5 minutes!!!!?” but then afterwards.. it hit me.
this is literally the best ending ever. i got into the show because i was going to school for nursing and thought “oh a nursing show. i’ll be able to relate” but after watching everything i realized it wasn’t about nursing. it was about addiction and the constant battles people have. this ending was perfect for me because we don’t know if she made it. or she went to rehab. or whatever. your mind goes to a million thoughts.
This finale broke my heart.
Same :(
I didn't want it to end I was hoping that Jackie and Kevin got back together and work things out. Just sad to see it end.
This ending was magical and thrilling and heartbreaking and so open ended!! Why Jackie? Got Dayum and on top of it all... She moves on to heroin??? Brilliant of the writers to show how she always reached out to drugs - Dr. Prince - and he is a prince (ya gotz to love Shalub) is fading away... She looses it!
But dammit.... Heroin? Brilliant - a junkie is a junkie... And Jackie is a Junkie!
I kept hoping All Saints would somehow stay open - and that Jackie would kick this addiction. And wow! Eddie really did love her!!
Okay I'm rambling now and it's like 4:00 am - just finished binge watching a final episodes... Epic ending!!
And KD Lang singing the Valley of the Dolls song? Huh! Drop da mike!!!!!!🎤
Perfect ending to a perfect series!
This show was mine and my
mother’s comfort show…she died a year ago of a lethal dose of oxy she was prescribed things just aren’t the same anymore..really makes me see things differently.
Again, this is another good show, where I find myself cheering when the main character gets what they deserve. I love the other characters. And I always get mixed feelings.
Are you saying Jackie deserved to die? And if so please elaborate. Because I guarantee you KRISTY someone in your life is an addict. You just don't know it yet. There are 8 million addicts in the US alone. Don't put someone down for something you don't understand!
Does anyone see the Charlie easter egg as Jackie walks out the doors of the hospital???
I'm crying as I write this. Take care people
Very emotional scene. Must have been very hard to act as nurse Jackie in this vid. Kudos to Edie.
does anyone know where I can find the song playing in the background while they're all partying in the hospital? I know it's called Wild Life by Jacqui Sandell, but I can't find it anywhere and I Neeeeed it!
I still can't see this scene with anything but the purest emotion.
I honestly don't know why I keep watching this scene. It breaks my heart and leaves me crying like a baby, but every once in a while I'll pull it up. My mother died similarly three years ago, and we'll never know if it was intentional or not. I really grew to love and hate Jackie over the course of the series, and my feelings for my mom are unresolved in that way too I guess.
Just finished this show before netflix takes it off. Sad powerful ending
Same. Such a sad ending. Cry ever time I watch it.
The way I look at it is: whether or not Jackie lives or dies, her life is over the moment the finale ends. If she dies, obviously so, but if she survives, she would never work as a nurse again. She'd probably never get to see her kids again. Eddie's going off to jail, so she'd be truly alone. She'd have no reason to ever attempt sobriety again.
Eight years later, it's still one of the best finales I've ever seen. It's super risky for a show to end on a note this bleak and this harrowing but it's so appropriate given the subject matter. Truly unlike anything else there ever was on TV.
Akalitus didn't even try to help
I caught that too...
Expired nursing license...
Actually, if you watch the very end of the clip, nobody was actually trying to help her. They didn't start a line, give her oxygen or put her on a gurney. They just comforted her.
All we saw was her walk over to look at what happened. We do not see her reaction once she saw jackie on the floor.
She was done with her. Don’t like or agree but I believe that is the case here.
She died because they didn't even attempt to resuscitate her because they knew she was gone.
They couldn't resuscitate her because they didn't have any meds or equipment left. That's why they were calling Bellevue.
@@veronicababy7959 they were calling Bellevue to expect her arrival. The EMS trucks should've had medicine on them, including narcan.
If normal people could realise how it feels to be an addict. It is the hardest sickness
I never liked Jackie, but the ending made me fucking cry. It was the fact that she died with everyone that she hurt in the past and hurt at that moment. What breaks me though is that even after all the pain that happens in that moment, everyone is still there for her.
Love nurse jackie
Edit: AND this scene
being a nurse defined her, and in the end, killed her.
How did you watch all 7 seasons and come to that conclusion? ADDICTION killed her. That's what this show was about. The life of a high functioning addict and how it eventually kills you.
In the end, who cares? Makes me so sad.
Was hoping for a happy ending and Jackie stayed clean, but at the same time I had a feeling she'd end up having an overdose and die. The ending made me feel sad and I didn't like it how it ended, but it was a great series overall.
The ending your good gets me sometimes just thinking about it
This was the only possible ending. No matter the outcome, she could not be saved.
I wish they had included Cooper and Mo-Mo.😔😌
Season 1, episode 1, Jackie (quoting Saint Augustine): "Please, God, make me good..but not yet"
Season 7, episode 12 (opening), Jackie: "Please, God, make me good"
Season 7, episode 12 (ending), Zoey: "You're good, Jackie...you're good"
some ending.....
It was so sad!
great show
I need to find that damn song!!!! wild life by Jacqui Sandell
+Pancakes kd lang
The song is "theme from valley of the dolls"
+Lydia .inplainsight131 NO, the song during the party scene when she's sniffing coke... not the song while she's walking past previous patients.
+Lydia .inplainsight131 heroin, rather.
They didnt have Narcan at a hospital?
I don't want my life to end this way.
make me good.....but not yet.
I will never not sob at this scene
Fun fact: The song playing is the theme from Valley of the Dolls, a movie about women turning to pills to numb their mental/emotional pain
How sad, and the K.D. Lang song is beautiful. Her voice is like silk.
I'm heartbroken; I thought she would make it and come out clean
112 people in Vermont alone died from opiate abuse in 2016. There is a new treatment center in Franklin County (North, near the CA Border,) and they are treating maybe 500 clients at present
Wait...it didn't click that she died when I finished this last night, I thought she just lost consciousness for a while. HOLY SHIT! THIS IS SO SAD!!!
very truthful