6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Comedy | 100% |
Drama | 42% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
English, English SDH, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
UV digital copy
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
She’s baaaaack. Was there ever any question that Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) would ultimately fall off whatever precarious wagon
she
had managed to hoist herself onto in her sometimes desperate attempts to wean herself off of various substances? Jackie hasn’t exactly
been
a virtuous battler for sobriety over the several seasons that Nurse Jackie has occupied its Showtime slot, and in fact the series has
come under fire from real life nurses who object to the show’s depiction of a medical professional gulping down rather large quantities of
various prescription drugs and then more or less going about her business, often without that many (professional) side effects. As the sixth
season of Nurse Jackie kicks off, it seems for a moment that maybe Jackie has managed to wrest the monkey off of her back. She’s
at a
gym, obviously relishing an early morning swim where she has the Olympic sized pool all to herself. Jackie seems calm, refreshed and—
happy. Soon enough, though, at least one reason for that calm and happiness is revealed. She’s getting a regular supply of pills
from
the gym’s towel attendant, in a little gambit that sees the worker folding the drugs into a towel and Jackie reciprocating with several bills
stashed inside the folds of the towel when Jackie brings it back to the attendant’s desk. Obviously all those meetings Jackie’s been
attending
in the so-called “program” haven’t made that much of a difference, and in a way Nurse Jackie is more or less right back where it
started,
with Jackie attempting to balance her personal and professional lives all within the context of a debilitating drug addiction.
For those wanting to catch up with the Nurse Jackie story thus far, or at least have a little refresher course, our reviews of previous
seasons can be found here:
Nurse Jackie: Season One Blu-ray review
Nurse Jackie: Season Two Blu-ray review
Nurse Jackie: Season Three Blu-ray
review
Nurse Jackie: Season Four Blu-ray review
Nurse Jackie: Season Five Blu-ray review
Nurse Jackie: Season Six is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Lionsgate Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. This season continues the series' generally excellent video presentation, with one notable exception. For the first time since I've been reviewing the series, a light dusting of noise creeps into several of the more dimly lit or downright dark scenes. It's never overly problematic, but some may find it at least momentarily distracting. Otherwise, this continues Nurse Jackie's nicely sharp and well detailed presentation, one that emphasizes naturalistic lighting sources like the glaring fluorescence of All Saints Hospital or the effulgent sunlight peeking through the Peyton family home on the weekends. Close-ups offer great detail and fine detail, especially in more brightly lit scenes. The color space is sometimes marginally toyed with, as with an emphasis on blue in the pool scenes.
As with previous seasons, Nurse Jackie: Season Six features a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 mix that some may feel is a bit of overkill, given the fact that so much of the series tends to play out in smaller scale, more intimate, dialogue scenes. The 7.1 rendering does offer nice spatial differentiation and ambience in some of the more chaotic hospital scenes, especially when several things are unfolding simultaneously and discrete channelization can help to establish where characters and events are positioned. Fidelity remains top notch and dynamic range is quite wide for this kind of generally unshowy soundtrack.
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It's probably a good thing that Nurse Jackie has announced that its upcoming seventh season will be its last. The series struggles at times this year to say something new with its now repetitive displays of Jackie's self-destructive tendencies. Still, the beautifully nuanced performances and generally smart writing help the show to rise above some if its more patently soap operatic elements. Jackie is a mess again, and that weirdly means Nurse Jackie still manages to be compelling in a "train wreck" sort of way. Video quality took a slight downturn this year, but overall Nurse Jackie comes Recommended.
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