Edie Falco is good for what ails Showtime’s ‘Nurse Jackie’

Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” is cable television’s latest program about the fraught relationship between a person and a drug. “Nurse Jackie” debuts at 10:30 p.m. tonight, after the season premiere of “Weeds,” which casts Mary Louise Parker as a suburban mom turned marijuana dealer. AMC’s “Breaking Bad” features a high school chemistry teacher and cancer patient turned cooker of crystal meth. On “Nurse Jackie,” Edie Falco plays a big-city nurse who doesn’t just dispense pain medication, but abuses it. The pilot episode (see below) features medicine capsules separating and the grains tumbling dreamily through the air, in slow motion and extreme close-up, like those old commericals. (Or those.) Then Jackie snorts them.