6月17日
'Hawthorne' Deserves Scarlet Letter
I really, really wanted to like "Hawthorne." Not only does it have Jada Pinkett Smith but it also has Michael Vartan of "Alias."
But really, the whole time I watched last night's pilot, it seemed like it was trying too darn hard and the titular character was too much of a Mary Sue for me to want to tune in regularly.
The premise is that Jada's Christina Hawthorne, nursing supervisor at Richmond Trinity. The pilot clunkily establishes she lost her husband about a year ago and is still grieving and still talking to him; she has a teen daughter who's a bit of a rebel; she befriends homeless women; she backs up her nurses against incompetent doctors; she's a tough lover; she has a mother-in-law who's affiliated with the hospital that she has a contentious relationship with and she will fight the system when need be.
And that's not to mention the show having to establish all the other characters, including a cute American-pie nurse, a male nurse who wanted to be a doctor but blew his MCATs, a nurse who has a prosthetic leg and so forth.
Maybe an episode that doesn't feel like it has to cram all these things about her and that can just be would be more watchable.
Are you going to give it a chance?
- posted by Raoul
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