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Originally Posted by gwsat 
There is certainly no doubt that Edie Falco, as Nurse Jackie, is the star of the show. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed Eve Best as the gourmet fashion plate, Dr. O'hara, and Paul Schulze as the libidinous pharmacist, Eddie Walzer. I also like Merritt Wever as the naive nursing student, Zoey. I think all of them are off to an interesting start and that a lot more can be done with them.
There is certainly no doubt that Edie Falco, as Nurse Jackie, is the star of the show. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed Eve Best as the gourmet fashion plate, Dr. O'hara, and Paul Schulze as the libidinous pharmacist, Eddie Walzer. I also like Merritt Wever as the naive nursing student, Zoey. I think all of them are off to an interesting start and that a lot more can be done with them.
Yes, but they don't have any story arcs of their own. While each of them has their own merits, the only time we see them (and learn about their characters) is whenever they are interacting with the central-focus Jackie character. Now that I think about it, I'm trying to recall a single scene anywhere in any of the first three shows where there is no Jackie but instead the support characters getting a story of their own. Other than the Zoey calling her mom on the cellphone in the bathroom (when she found the ear in the toilet), there hasn't been any.
Yes, Jackie is the star of the show, the same way that Nancy Botwin is the star of Weeds. But when I compare the two, I realize they could do an entire show without ever showing Nancy and the stories from the secondary characters could cover without a problem.
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