Who is in the cast of “Hawthorne” besides Jada Pinkett Smith?”
For a time… well, up until just a few years ago, really, if you were a movie star, you didn’t go near the small screen except for maybe a special guest starring role just for kicks. With the landscape of cable changing the face of television, we now have stars of film like Glenn Close on Damages (who actually helped pave the way with her starring role in Season 4 of The Shield), and the current TNT lineup which includes Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer, Holly Hunter on Saving Grace and Timothy Hutton on one of my new personal favorites, Leverage. TNT adds another star of the silver screen to its lineup with Jada Pinkett Smith starring in the new series Hawthorne, and with the kind of writing that comes with this show (and all those aforementioned shows), it’s no surprise why movie stars are heading over to the small screen, and Pinkett Smith’s new series is another wonderful addition to the already-strong TNT slate. To be honest, I was a bit worried about this show because of two little w
While the vital signs for the new Jada Pinkett Smith nurse drama “Hawthorne” are generally good, the patient may need a few more weeks of observation before we can declare the show will make it. The pieces are in place for a solid drama-with-humor, the kind that cable channels are serving like aspirin these days. The problem is this show hasn’t quite figured out yet how to integrate all the components into a uniform tone and direction. Smith plays Christina Hawthorne, the chief nursing officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital. She’s also surrounded by a strong cast, including David Julian Hirsch and Suleka Mathew, who plays her funny and plucky friend, Bobbie. Joanna Cassidy plays her mother-in-law Amanda, which is a critical role because Christina’s husband Michael died of cancer a year earlier and clearly it left some residual tension between Christina and Amanda.
