I followed James Gandolfini and Edie Falco on The Sopranos for six seasons. Despite news about her battle with the bottle and the big C, I am still used to seeing Falco as Carmela Soprano, the all-Catholic, expensively dressed wife of Tony (Gandolfini) who has perfect hair and nails done regularly at a hefty cost.
Who would have thought that two years after the last episode of the mob series, we would see Carmela in nursing scrubs? Nurse Jackie is a comedy on a very hectic New York hospital nurse Jackie Peyton and her worldly day-to-day struggles with life, work and love. It is a diversion for the usual presentation of such an angle in a show with doctors and nurses. Shows would usually have a drama with Jackie’s life but instead, it is written in a light and easily digestible manner.
Seeing Carmela in scrub tops takes a little getting used to but it is easily forgivable after we see Peter Facinelli (yes, Twilight’s Dr. Carlisle Cullen and the husband of Beverly Hills 90210′s Jennie Garth), as a mere mortal medicine man in his uniform white coat, dapper tie and very brown hair. The third season of the show since its premier in 2009 premiered this March, 2011.