And just when you think that Jackie overdosed, she does wake up. Her eyes open ever so slightly as Zoe tearfully strokes her and says "you're good, Jackie." Fade to black. End series.
So what exactly happened there?! Did Jackie end up dying on the floor of All Saint's? What's next after she wakes up? We have a lot of burning questions from that cliffhanger, and thankfully Nurse Jackie showrunner and the writer of the final episode, Clyde Phillips, talked to us about what we should take away from the final episode of the Showtime drama.
E! Online: Jackie's story really ended on a dark, down note.
Clyde Phillips: We wanted to end the show with authenticity. Basically, Nurse Jackie is a show about a sociopathic drug addict. And you would think that that would be a character that an audience would shy away from, but they welcomed this character in the show into their homes for seven years. And the reason they did is Edie Falco.
One of the words to describe how we want people to feel about this show is compassion. Compassion for storytelling, compassion for the character of Jackie Peyton and compassion for this horrible disease that she has. And indeed it is a disease.
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