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Television review

Compelling portrait develops over season

Withheld emotion is the key to Edie Falco’s performance. Withheld emotion is the key to Edie Falco’s performance. (Ken Regan/ Showtime)
By Matthew Gilbert
Globe Staff / August 24, 2009

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As the first season of Edie Falco’s “Nurse Jackie’’ developed across the summer, the title gained a lovely double meaning. The phrase nurse Jackie took on an imploring tone - for people to nurse Jackie, to seek help for a person so stubbornly bent on self-destruction. What sounded like a label of power back in June - Nurse Jackie almost ... (Full article: 570 words)

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