A USER AND A LOSER

Good and bad news at Showtime.

The good:

Nurse Jackie is inked for Season 4.

Each character is such a joy to watch. All the actors turn in such fine performances week after week. It's really like hanging at the nurses' station and catching up with your favorite co-workers at 8 am every weekday morning.

Edie Falco. Iconic.

Eve Best gives a subtle yet charmingly powerful life to her character, Dr. Eleanor O'Hara.

Peter Facinelli turns in a wonderful Dr. Dick work jerk we all love- to- hate, Dr. Fitch Cooper.

But the actress that bats a home run performance week after week is Anna Deavere Smith as Gloria Akalitus.

One minute she claims she knows the First Lady, Michelle Obama; the next she is thinking of crazy acronyms to pump up her staff (....T.I.T. Teach Instead of Talk..... Wait, T.I.T. ? That's not gonna work....)

HIGHlarious

The bad:

Showtime axes United States of Tara.

Wawwwwww. Our loss.

We've grown to love Vietnam vet Buck. Bratty T and (personal favorite) the serene, all-knowing psychotherapist Shoshana Schoenbaum.

We've watched Marshall have an iconic high school life that every gay kid should live. A boyfriend he kisses AND has sex with. Falls for another boy and is able to sneak kisses with him in the privacy of his bedroom or parent's basement. Long talks in a car with his man and able to hug it out and a request for his man to "fuck" him.

OY, we WANTED this life in high school. We would have been fucked in the car every night!!! Arggggg.

There is no way that the series will be able to tie together every story line in a nice little package by the next 4 episodes.

That leaves us to wonder one thing:

What happens with Marshall?

What happens with Marshall?

What happens with Marshall?

Okay, well that was 3 things.....