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"Hawthorne" hasn't lost its superiority complex

The most perfect nurse in the world is back.

"Hawthorne" (TNT, 9 tonight) returns, with nurse Christina Hawthorne's (Jada Pinkett Smith) halo and crusading superiority (masking as passionate patient care) still intact.

Her hospital gets closed down, and her team is sent to work at the last hospital in town, a failing, disorganized place.

Hawthorne is about to take a private job, but then a patient with a gun shot wounds brings her through the new hospital's door.

One look at the raggedy way it operates and our Christina knows exactly what that hospital needs: Her!

"HawthoRNe": A weak entry to the TNT strong woman tribe

 

The first problem with TNT's "HawthoRNe" (tonight at 9) is that it's spelled that way, with the big RN for registered nurse and someone thought that was clever.

In guess you didn't get it, the show is about nurses, and Jada
Pinkett Smith (who, by the way, studied for a time at the NC School of the Arts) plays Christina Hawthorne, the chief nursing officer at a hospital in Richmond, Va.

She's recently widowed, left with a daughter. Luckily the nursing staff she supervises is like family.

Michael Vartan, the cutie from "Alias" plays an oncologist and chief of surgery.

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