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Why O’Hara is basically absent from season 5 of Nurse Jackie

Interviewer: Without giving away any spoilers, I do want to ask: Where is Eve Best (Dr. Eleanor O’Hara)? She sat out most of the season.

Edie Falco: Well, it was her choice. She lives in England and she was terribly homesick. She missed being in the theater, she missed her family and for a lot of personal reasons she really needed to be home. Which was not unlike what happened with Liz (Brixius) and Linda (Wallem), our two showrunners, who are from L.A. Their families are there, and it’s giant chunks of time you’re being asked every year to spend away from home. I don’t know, I couldn’t do it. I guess nobody expects a show to run for a while. They’re like, “Oh, I’ll do a couple of years, it’ll be fine,” and we’re into year six, and they’re like, “You know what? I can’t.”

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NURSE JACKIE 501 – “Happy Fucking Birthday” Episode Description

An overturned bus makes for a crazy day at All Saints. Two new doctors join the staff: Dr. Carrie Roman, a resident who fucked her way to the middle, and Dr. Ike Prentiss, a badass Army doc. Dr. Eleanor O’Hara just wants to spend every minute with her new son. Coop is wary of Prentiss but starts crushing on Carrie. And in the middle of the chaos, Akalitus gives Eddie back his old job. After witnessing yet another tense morning between the Peytons, Zoey announces that it’s time for her to move out of Jackie’s house and O’Hara tells Jackie it’s her last day at All Saints and she’s moving to London to be with her baby and her family. And all this, the day before Jackie’s birthday. And the end of a long day, Jackie puts one pill into a small jewelry box next to her wedding ring in her night stand. It’s a new year.

 Fuck this shit. I am so done with you, show. 

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“You never do anything half-assed, do you?”

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From Ask Ausiello!

mrseleanorohara:

ubiquitousmixie:

Question: Is Eve Best leaving Nurse Jackie? I read that O’Hara was going to leave for London. —Mayara
Ausiello: Jackie lose her BFF? Pshaw. Per a Showtime rep, Best will be back as a series regular for Season 5 (bowing April 14).

Thank god, but I’m still not entirely convinced. She’s not been in any of the clips or promos.

This.

Anyone else have a horrible feeling she’ll just be Skyping in? Also, O’Hara moving to London to be with her family after the show has spent 4 seasons establishing that her step-father is an arse, her mum is dead and her sister lives in Paris is so OOC  that it doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence in the writers of season 5 either. 

*sigh* 

“Nonsense! Nothing’s better if I leave.”

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