Battle Of The Nurses

I promised that I would have a blog about the nurses show but which one to choose?
There's 2 new great shows, one stars Edie Falco from The Sopranos in the new Showtime series Nurse Jackie (not Nurse Betty as Dean and I keep calling it, LOL) and the other is over on TNT called Hawthorne starring Jada Smith Pinkett as the head nurse in a hospital.
Both are riveting shows and all, but one of them must win... (Bring me the speakerphone:) The Battle of the Nurses!!!...
So let's start with Nurse Jackie (or is it Becky? Oh, I get so confused!!). So Edie Falco is such a good actress and though I hadn't seen her in The Sopranos where she was very popular for being married to the Mob, especially since she was married to Tony Soprano of all people, but I never cared for that show and so I never saw her in the show, totally missed her there. But here she plays a totally different character, she's a no-holds-bar nurse who must juggle with snubby doctors, crazy patients, an arrogant boss who used to be a nurse but now she's like an inspector, a newbie who just can't stop talking, her drug addiction and the occasional quickies she has around noon inside the supply room with a doctor from whom she gets her prescription. And then she goes home... to her wonderful husband and father of her two beautiful daughters...
The way the show flows is just so quick and unpredictable. You see one side of Nurse Jackie, one side that cares about her patients, that has a heart when attending someone in need even though they slap her in the face, one that has to deliver the good or bad news to family members with tact and a sense of care. However, she can also be very fierce, speaks her mind no matter what the consequences are, and can be a pretty mean nurse if she wants to (on the pilot episode, she flushed a patient's severed ear lobe down the toilet upon realizing he beats up his woman).
Yes, I bet you that she's probably a Gemini.
On the other hand, there's head nurse Hawthorne. Now, I've only seen the pilot episode last night and it looks like a really good show as well. In the pilot episode she's seen talking someone who is apparently listening to her when suddenly she gets a call from the hospital and she rushes out the door while the camera focuses on the jar that holds her husband's ashes. You immediately get drawn to her character and how amazing the story of her daily routine turns out to be.
She encounters this homeless girl right outside her hospital and she insists that the nurse take a look at her shopping cart. Upon agreeing with the poor woman Hawthorne realizes that it's a newborn baby and so she pleads to the homeless woman to bring the baby inside to run some tests on the baby to make sure it's okay but the homeless woman is very persistant and keeps believing they're stealing the baby away from her. Hawthorne manages to grab the baby away from this crazy woman and child services get involve in the matter, probably thinking this woman has stolen the baby from somewhere but it turns out that the homeless woman was actually bleeding since giving birth to that baby that Hawthorne had taken care of. It's a lesson that not everything is as it seems and many stories seem trivial and obvious at a glance but they turn out to be such bigger stories than they appear to be at first.
It also turnes out that Hawthorne still hasn't had time to grief the death of her husband and it's exactly been one year of the anniversary of his death. So there's much more drama to come later on in the show, I just gotta wait and see how the story develops.
Both look like great shows but there must be only one winner of... The Battle of the Nurses; so I'll pick my favorite which is so far Nurse Jackie which is just like watching a nurse with multiple, unpredictable and different personalities that each episode brings the best, and mostly, the worst in her.
The best slogan of the two is hands down Nurse Jackie's which reads:

Life is full of little pricks

There's just so much true to that, don't you agree?