Comments on: Televison Review: HawthoRNe is Not Good, Not Black

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:25:42 +0000

I loved this show. So just because she is black she has to be with a black man. I love her relationship with Michael Vartan. I am biracial and I love that the show went this route. I love that she is so caring and fights hard for her patients and what she believes in. She plays a strong woman which is all that count rather than the color of her skin and who she should be paired up with. The cast is brilliant and I have no complaints. I look forward to Tuesdays.

By: jaye

jaye — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:56:23 +0000

i cared nothing about whether or not it was a “black” show…. i liked jada and i wished for her to do well with this…. but i… like many other blacks have grown increasingly tired of the trend of hollywood where once one of our black actresses reaches a certain level of fame… she must then be teamed with white leading men as a sign that she has “made it”…. it’s an insult to black male actors…. and the black community as a whole….

and i am sad that jada has further perpetrated this trend… i understand that this effort was launched by her production company so i can only surmise that the decision to have her love interests be white was her decision…. that’s sad… i watched the first episode…. seeing the trend the show is taking i won’t be watching another…. and sad to say… i’m disapointed with mrs smith….

By: KATHY

KATHY — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:47:25 +0000

THE SHOW STINKS………BLACK OR WHITE THIS IS THE CRAPPIEST SHOW ON TV. KILL IT. SHE WOULD BE BETTER OFF BEING A MODEL. BUT THE SUBSTANCE OF IT SUCKS.

By: joanna

joanna — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:26:44 +0000

I LOVE this show…. it is my new fave! The ONLY thing I don’t like is that they had to make her hubby a white man. And as for the Indian actress…. I didn’t know she was Indian. Thought she was Hispanic till I saw tonights episode and she told a bigoted man who assumed she was Hispanic that she was Indian and Sri Lankan. I don’t know, I love the show and watch every episode, no it is not a Black show but it is multicultural and I will continue to enjoy it.

By: Christie

Christie — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:26:54 +0000

First, WHY does anything HAVE to be a black or a white show. That isn’t how the world is.

Second, nursing is a job. Real nurses don’t put their lives and licenses on the line, kicking at cops, screaming like banshees blah, blah blah with all the draammaaaaaa. They do the job, most do it with caring and dedication but then they go home. It’s a job.

By: mikki

mikki — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:32:24 +0000

I don’t know why we expect it to be a “black” show. That’s interesting. I am a black woman and I love Jada. I am not taking sides, but I do see what everyone is talking about. I think what we are talking about is that most black women, nurses or otherwise, are married to black men. So in my opinion, it was unnecessary for Jada’s deceased husband to have been white. Who knows why this was done. Is Jada fully black herself? I just don’t know. I do know that Jada herself married a black man so it seems a little off balance.

Anyway, I like the show, and I’m going to give her a chance. The funny thing is that these shows are full of average, overrated, over-acting white women and they still make a mint. I’m just glad to see her back and doing it. Take a look at how overrated Saving Grace is…Holly is getting good reviews. And for what?

By: ill Mami

ill Mami — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:07:45 +0000

@Elle:

Because Jada always seems to be trying too hard. In every and any way possible. There are just like too many examples to mention, but this show is one of them.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:00:36 +0000

Two words “Over Acting”.

By: Thembi

Thembi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:53:13 +0000

@mindyobizz
The actress in question IS of Indian descent, which is rare on tv, and that’s the point. Hawthorne is not at all focused on the black experience, which is what makes it nothing new. You definitely have strong opinions, though, so maybe if you educate yourself a bit on performance art and the industry , and of course learn to write, you can be an entertainment reviewer someday, too…

By: Mindyobizz

Mindyobizz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:46:05 +0000

Ya some Haters for real… Damn.. one or two episodes and yall got the whole season summed up. For real though…in 2009 ya’ll still lookin for “black” shows??!?!? GTFOH wit that bs. Thats why white folk get shocked to here that we watch anything other than Martin and the Cosbys. Its obvious that Jada wasnt tryin to make another “black” show that keeps us in a box. Aint no such thing as a “black” hospital. If yall lookin for more realism we need to see more Filipino and Indian people on the cast of these Hospital shows. I can speak on this more than anybody here since I grew up in the Hospital environment. My mom is a HawthoRNe and has been my whole life. If ya would get ya heads out ya own asses (Author included) you would see that this show differs from the other Hospital shows in that it is based around the NURSES. rather than the Elitist, stuck on the high horse doctors. The NURSES spend more time with the patients than the doctors do and in most cases its the NURSES who at the end of the day save lives. Sadly at the end of the day they recieve little to no credit what so ever. The show aint about her havin a white husband and mixed daughter. That was obviously done so that people like you all would not attempt to stick her in the “black” box! HawthoRNe is HawthoRNe not Nurse Jackie for black folk! And BTW @the author… maybe if you watched more episodes you can get your facts straight before spewing your hate because Suleka Mathew is not playing an Indian Doctor she is in fact playing a Nurse by the name of Bobbie Jackson. There have been no mention as to her nationality but seeing as she is unmarried and her last name is Jackson, it is unlikely that she is playing an Indian. However, she is of Indian decent and she did play a doctor on a Canadian TV program called Da Vinci’s Inquest.
Yall can get mad if yall want, I just call it how I see it. Peace!