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So far, on Nurse Jackie, viewers have fallen in love with Edie Falco as Jackie and Merritt Wever as Zoey.

However, over the next handful of episodes, the Showtime hit will shine a spotlight on another staff member of of All-Saints Hospital: Eve Best's Dr. O'Hara.

According to E! Online, the icy doctor's life isn't as carefree as her nonchalant manner would have fans believe. Why is she seemingly so uncaring toward, well, everyone? Look for a personal crisis to be revealed, one that provides Best with incredible material.

Nurse Jackie viewers will soon see a side to Dr. O'Hara that involves more than just eating at expensive restaurants.

On the latest episode of Nurse Jackie...

• ... Coop and Eddie grow closer as friends.
• ... Mrs. Akalitus tasers herself.
• ... Jackie bonds with a 10-year old girl.

Read our detailed recap of "Daffodil" right now.

Among our favorite Nurse Jackie quotes from the episode...

Jackie: (voice-over) Look at that. It's supposed to be Florida. Who draws Florida with no sun? It's the goddamn Sunshine State! | permalink

Jackie: Okay, it's very simple. Everything they tell you, you type in their file, whatever they don't tell you, but you know to be true, type in their file. | permalink

Zoey: Nights are different.
Jackie: Yes. More stab wounds, more drunks, less nutjobs, less children. Okay, you prioritize by condition. Gunshots, stabbings, cardiac arrest followed by bleeders and shallow breathers.
Zoey: Shallow breathers. Got it. What about someone who can't breath at all.
Jackie: They are already dead. They go to the waiting room. | permalink

A series of lessons were learned this week on Nurse Jackie.

• Zoey learned that patients sometimes die;
• Dr. O'Hara learned that you can't escape gratitude when saving someone's life;
• Jackie learned that her daughter might have an anxiety disorder, and it's a bad idea to carry around one cell phone number for both your husband and your lover.

Read more about the episode titled "School Nurse" with our detailed recap.

On Nurse Jackie, Peter Facinelli's character, Dr. Cooper, has a unique trait: sexual Tourette's syndrome.

When nervous, he grabs his co-worker's breasts.

According to E! Online, this is a real condition. The show won't overdo its use, however, as the entertainment site reports that Coop won't fondle Jackie again until episode five.

We'll also learn more about Dr. Cooper's famlly. For example, he was raised by two lesbian mothers (portrayed by Blythe Danner and Swoosie Kurtz) that show up in episode six.

It's official: Nurse Jackie is a hit.

After just one episode, the Showtime series has been picked up for a second season.

As for the rest of season one? TV Guide reports that, yes, Jackie will get "caught" cheating on her husband. This ought to land her in double trouble, as pharmacist Eddie (pictured) doesn't appear to know Jackie is married.

Meanwhile, in guest-starring news: Swoozie Kurtz and Blythe Danner will appear in a future episode.

That was fast.

After just one episode, Showtime has green lighted a second season order of Nurse Jackie, following last night's series premiere of the Edie Falco drama. It became Showtime's most-watched series premiere in history.

Nurse Jackie was seen by one million viewers; it then earned another 350,000 during its same-night repeat for a total of 1.35 million viewers.

Weeds, which also premiered last night, saw approximately 1.7 million viewers for its debut, and rerun, episodes combined.

Edie Falco deserves a ton of credit for this fact alone:

Within 90 seconds of last night's Nurse Jackie premiere, we totally forgot about Carmella Soprano.

It may have been the short hair, but it was also definitely Falco's performance that instantly introduced us to Jackie Peyton, a personally troubled (but professionally successful) nurse at a New York City hospital.

Throughout the first half hour of this series, we learned a great deal about Jackie and those around her.

Get to know everyone for yourself via this Nurse Jackie recap.

Edie Falco makes her return to television tonight on the series premiere of Nurse Jackie.

During a recent interview with Alan Sepinwall of The Newark Star-Ledger, the actress spoke on her new character, as well as the transition from The Sopranos to another (hopeful) cable hit:

Do you feel like you have a comfort level with Jackie yet?
I'm getting there. There's still a great deal with her that I'm discovering. Every time I got a script I said, "Really? Wow. Okay, let's follow this one." Pieces of the storyline that were just fascinating. I loved the opportunity to discover what that would feel like on the inside. Same thing as "Sopranos" -- the more you go along, the more you're going to feel comfortable in that skin. But I'm certainly not there yet. If we're lucky, we'll get a chance to learn more, but who knows?

What's the ratio is of comedy to drama on the show?
I don't know. I signed on to it when it was a drama. The first version that I read was certainly dark -- too dark, which is one of the reasons I wasn't ready to go with it completely. Then Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius got ahold of it as writers, and it morphed into something Showtime was more interested in grabbing hold of. But it's hard to say, ratio-wise, because it all feels of a piece.

It feels like the people's relationships with each other are pretty funny, the situations are pretty funny. Though it's an emergency room, it is Manhattan, and people come into emergency rooms for funny reasons. I would tend to think it's in a similar ratio to "Sopranos." Although the humor is certainly different on a million levels.

Forget clips and spoilers.

If you want an early look at Edie Falco's upcoming sitcom, Nurse Jackie, it doesn't get much better than this: the complete pilot episode has been posted on YouTube.

Sit back, watch and enjoy:

Edie Falco stars in the new Showtime series Nurse Jackie.

It premieres on June 8, following the season premiere of Weeds.

In the clip below, Jackie (Falco) confronts Dr. Cooper after losing a patient during surgery: