The same goes for the season two promotional photo. This time, though, the syringes (along with pills, pill bottles, and thermometers) outline Jackie's head in a halo. The tagline is "Holy shift." Get it?

Nurse Jackie will return to Showtime on March 22 to begin its second season. Here's the poster for your reading pleasure:

Missing The Tudors?  Want to know when the new show Nurse Jackie will return for its second season?

Showtime has posted the release dates for five of its shows that will be returning in the late winter and early spring of 2010:

Secret Diary of a Call Girl - January 25

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union – January 25

Nurse Jackie – March 22

United States of Tara – March 22

The Tudors - April 11

Source: THR Feed

The episode begins with Jackie and Kevin at the bar. Jackie is complaining about Jenny Flynn, the woman at the dance class who caused the scene with Jackie. Jackie reveals that she knows that Jenny and Kevin used to date, but Kevin insists it was only for two weeks when they were sixteen. Jackie worries about Grace's reaction to the entire Jenny Flynn situation, but Kevin reassures her that Grace will soon see that Jackie was just trying to help.

Kevin then tells Jackie that he's got a surprise for her when she gets off work, and so she'll have to come to the bar at midnight to recieve it. Jackie is delighted, musing "Who is luckier than me?"

As Jackie leaves, she is looked on from afar by Eddie, who saw her with Kevin and her daughters the previous night. As Eddie enters the bar, Jackie turns around. She doesn't see Eddie, however, and continues on her way, a troubled look on her face. Eddie, meanwhile, sits down at the bar, and Kevin invites him to have a drink, even though the bar isn't supposed to open for another hour. Eddie decides he wants a beer.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Akalitus talks to the comatose Nutterman, eventually grasping his hand. Zoey notices this but says nothing. Jackie, meanwhile, goes to the hospital, and stops by the pill-o-matix to get some pain medication, but is only able to score Tylenol. "Blow me," she deadpans disappointedly.

As she's leaving the room, she is stopped by Akalitus outside the elevator. Akalitus informs her that she is opening up the Nutterman case for investigation, and she'll need to question Jackie and Zoey in her office in five minutes. However, as soon as Akalitus gets in the elevator, it gets stuck, stranding her alone. Jackie continues on to the nurse's station, which is swamped with phone calls. Zoey is talking to Nutterman, telling him her name and apologizing for her mistake which put him into the coma.

Jackie finally calls Zoey over for some help. Akalitus calls the nurse's station from her cell phone in the elevator, but is put on hold by Zoey. She calls again, loudly telling Zoey her name. Zoey hangs up anyway, unfazed. Jackie notices that Zoey is wearing grey scrubs, and Zoey informs her that they are because she's in "mourning" for her mistake. Jackie doesn't like the scrubs. Zoey ignores another call from Akalitus, and asks Jackie if there's going to be an investigation into the Nutterman coma. Jackie says yes, but advises her not to call the elevator repairman just yet.

Coop then comes up to Jackie, telling her that he knows that she broke her own finger. Though she is shocked that he knows this, Jackie feigns ignorance and follows him to discuss it in privacy. He tells her that she broke her finger just to get some alone time with him, because of their "chemistry." Jackie calls him a moron, but kisses him once more. He's confused by this — very confused.

Meanwhile, Zoey talks to Thor and Mo-Mo about her scrubs. Neither of them like the scrubs. In the middle of their discussion, a tall, skinny girl (heralded by Mo-Mo as "America's next top model") walks into the clinic. Taking off her hoodie, she reveals a large piece of hair missing from her scalp. Mo-Mo and Thor are unsympathetic, but Zoey suggests a hair stylist that she knows who will fix the girl's hair. The girl wants Zoey as a nurse, but since Zoey cannot treat patients, she is stuck with Mo-Mo and Thor.

Meanwhile, at the bar, Eddie asks Kevin about Jackie, pretending that he doesn't know her. He tells Kevin that he himself is in a relationship with a marrried woman who has two children. Kevin sympathizes, but Eddie tells him that he has "no idea."

Akalitus remains stuck in the elevator, and slowly begins to grow stir-crazy.She begins talking to herself, pretending as though she is at a meeting, and talks about herself and Nutterman. "It's been a great year for healthcare…and cinema," she crows to an invisible audience.

O'Hara informs Jackie that she's going to break the law — she's having her mother shipped in from London, just so she can see her with her own eyes. Because she can't handle the paperwork, she is admitting her mother as a Jane Doe.

Jackie tries to get the pill-o-matix to give her something stronger, but it refuses to cooperate. She calls Eddie for help, but he's still at the bar, and ignoresher call once he sees that it's her. Jackie, frustrated, leaves.

Back at the nurse's station, Jackie continues to beg Zoey to change, but Zoey refuses, hypothetically wondering what Nutterman's reaction would be if he saw her wearing happily decorated scrubs after she'd put him into a coma. Jackie thinks that it won't be a big issue. Zoey thinks it is, however, and wants to apologize to Nutterman, and admit that she made a mistake. Jackie tries to assure Zoey that it would be selfish to tell Nutterman, because it would only make herself feel better.

Coop, meanwhile, talks to Mo-Mo about Jackie while they're treating a man whose intestine has popped out of his stomach. Mo-Mo is unaware that it's Jackie who Coop is talking about, and expresses his own regrets about a man who he likes who is not into him.

Jackie calls Eddie once more, but he ignores her, and instead continues talking to Kevin about Jackie. Kevin shows Eddie the wedding band he's gotten for Jackie. Eddie begins to drink more.

The elevator maintenance men finally get Akalitus out of the elevator. As she walks hurriedly out, she complains that they were "not prompt." Jackie, meanwhile, tries to reset the pill-o-matix, but instead sets off its alarm. She leaves when it doesn't stop blaring.

While O'Hara waits for her mother to arrive, Coop decides to help out Mo-Mo by taking a picture of them kissing in order to make Mo-Mo's crush jealous. Jackie walks by, throwing an offhand comment about Coop, to which Coop tries to save face. Mo-Mo realizes that Coop is talking about Jackie.

Meanwhile, Nutterman wakes up, though he has no memory of any cinema except Showgirls. ("I broke him," Zoey whimpers.) He does, however, remember exactly what Zoey said to him while he was in the coma, and he notices the bright new scrubs that Zoey is wearing, though she tries to tell him that she had previously been wearing grey ones.

Meanwhile, Eddie shows up at the hospital, drunk. He causes a scene, shouting profanities. Jackie tries to calm him down, but can't. Akalitus asks him to leave, and when he is stubborn, she threatens to call security. He agrees to leave, but not before telling Jackie that he's met Kevin. Jackie, astonished, flees to the pill-o-matix machine, taking out three vials of morphene. Sneaking into a private room, Jackie takes all three vials before lying down on the floor.

She blinks, and discovers that she has been dressed in completely new nurse attire, much like the ones pictured left. The room is bathed in a white glow. Looking to her left, she sees an idyllic family — Kevin and her two daughters — waving at her.She begins singing "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" in a drowsy voice inside her head.

However, her hallucination is broken when she sees a rat in the fluorescent light above her. She watches it circle the light twice, and then wonders aloud: "Did anyone else see that."

And that's the end of the season. It's not the most satisfying end, mind you, but as Peter Facinelli so aptly described the finale, "I can say that nothing gets tied up in a neat little bow for the end of this season. It's like life. The end of the day is not wrapped up in a neat little package. You have to wait to tomorrow to see how today really was. That's how it is with this show."

Nurse Jackie will return for a second season in 2010.

The episode opened with Jackie spending time with her family. Kevin and Fiona have  a "secret plan" for Jackie while she takes Grace to her tap class. Fiona almost spills the beans, but is shushed quickly by Kevin. For such a small performance, Daisy Tahan does a wonderful job as Jackie's cute youngest daughter.

While at tap class, Jackie gets into an argument with a fellow mom because her daughter is running into Grace. Jackie tries to tell the girl to back off, despite Grace's pleas, eventually getting into a verbal fight with the girls mother, "saying the f word" to her, and leaving with an embarrassed and angry Grace.

Meanwhile, Kevin and Fiona are looking at rings to replace the wedding band that Jackie had sawed off last week. Kevin opts to get her a diamond ring, which he and Fiona will use to surprise Jackie. I'm surprised that the jeweler didn't tell Kevin that the ring had been sawed off, which he should have been able to tell if he was any kind of jeweler at all.

Meanwhile, Jackie arrives at the hospital for the orientation for the new Pill O-Matix (apparently the Pixus was scrapped in favor of this "better" machine). Eddie is present, and though Akalitus expresses regret for firing him, she makes him watch the orientation of his replacement.

Meanwhile, Coop begins asking Zoey what Jackie likes, to which Zoey humorously replies with a list of mundane things, including gum, and coffee. Coop inquires as to whether Jackie is seeing someone, and Zoey replies that she thinks so. Coop still thinks that Zoey's "thinking so" is still plenty of reason for hope. However, his girlfriend arrives at the doorway in an elaborate fur coat, and "just happened to be in town."

Coop painstakingly breaks up with her outside the hospital in favor of Jackie, refusing her offers of allowing him to see other people. She walks away, leaving him, as O'Hara and Jackie look on. He waves sheepishly, prompting peals of laughter from O'Hara as Jackie disgustedly goes back inside.

Coop brings Jackie  a vase of flowers and some gum, a sweet but annoyingly stubborn gesture which he refuses, leaving her the stuff before leaving. Before Jackie can do anything, however, a movie critic is brought in, having fallen and broken his arm while crossing the street while on his laptop.

Jackie doesn't think that this man has the best taste, telling him that she actually liked Hotel for Dogs, which the critic called the worst film of the year. They argue back and forth, and the dislikable critic doesn't earn any points with Jackie.

Jackie returns the vase and gum to Coop, despite his argument, and leaves. As she does, Eddie walks into the hallway, running into Akalitus, who tells him that she's looking for another position to put him in, perhaps in a smaller pharmacy, like oncology.

Akalitus then goes to meet the critic, and the two surprisingly hit it off, despite them both being very contrary people. After finding out that he's single, Akalitus shows interest, but walks away.

Meanwhile, Eddie shows Jackie a new glitch he has found in the Pill O-Matix — unplugging the computer will cause the system to reset, and Jackie will be able to get whatever she wants out of the cabinet. He assures her that everything will be fine, and that he'll still see her outside the hospital. He wants to meet her kid, and he wants her to meet his mom. He's a very nice guy, and it's sad to see him get played like this by Jackie. The two then proceed to have sex on top of the Pill O-Matix.

Later, the critic is complaining of the pain, but Zoey accidentally overdoses him during a conversation with Jackie about the film The Guardian, causing him to go into a coma. Zoey is sent away to the bathroom, and is told that she's being taken off the floor. She'll be able to answer the phone, but that's about it. Akalitus then walks in and orders Zoey to go to her office. She's obviously angry about her potential love interest being thrown into a coma.

Meanwhile, Mo-Mo deals with a patient who has a spider in his ear. The experience is unpleasant for everyone involved, even after the spider is flushed out; the patient complains that he feels something crawling in his other ear too.

Later, Thor and M0-Mo take Zoey out for dinner, trying to reassure her that she'll be okay, and that the experience with the movie critic will end up improving her nursing skills. Zoey suddenly has the epiphany that Thor is gay, but this seems to be the only revelation she has during their dinner.

Meanwhile, Jackie returns to the bar, bringing back some flowers from Coop's gift (the only part of it she didn't throw away) to her two daughters. Fiona is appreciative, but Grace is still resentful to Jackie for the incident at the dancing class. As Jackie hugs Kevin and looks over her daughters, Eddie is shown looking in from the window — the jig is up for Jackie! Eddie walks away into the dark snow, ending the episode.

It was a rather good one, and there's plenty of foreshadowing to be found. The rather random discussion about O'Hara's mother sets us up for an appearance from the reason for O'Hara's woes, and of course the payoff of Eddie finding out about Jackie's family will be something to watch, come next week in the season one finale of Nurse Jackie, which will be titled "Health Care and Cinema."

There is a fine line between bitter and seasoned. As a veteran ER nurse, Jackie Peyton both toes and blurs that line.

Nurse Jackie, the new Monday night series on Showtime, provides a rather refreshing perspective and premise among the others populating the relatively drab summer television landscape.  The show successfully illuminates the somber reality of hospital relationships and life in the emergency room, miles beyond the brightly lit ER or the jovial environment of Scrubs. The tone is dark, but not sinister; there is enough levity to balance the bleak.

Edie Falco is nothing short of mesmerizing as Jackie. Most of us are quite familiar with her strong screen presence from six seasons on The Sopranos, but I am thrilled to be able to now watch a show centered directly around her week after week.  There are very few actresses of her caliber who could fill these sturdy white shoes, let alone those who would go near a role as raw and risky as Jackie. To be frank, I already see Emmy potential for Falco (her biggest competition may come from fellow Showtime lead Toni Collette for The United States of Tara).

By the way, Sopranos fans will enjoy the fact that Father Phil has reunited with Carmela (actor Paul Schulze plays the hospital pharmacist on Nurse Jackie)!  Other familiar faces on Nurse Jackie include Peter Facinelli (to the delight of squealing Twilight fanatics everywhere), Merritt Weaver (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) and Anna Deveare Smith (The West Wing).

After only one episode, I am hooked and will be setting my TiVO for the season. I appreciate the character development and surprising turns that boldly unfold in the pilot, and look forward to an unpredictable and enjoyable summer with Nurse Jackie.

[Jo is a pop culture writer who loves television and covers Lost extensively. She will also be tuning in to The Cleaner, Entourage, Hung, True Blood and Weeds during the next few months while impatiently awaiting the return of Mad Men.]