HawthoRNe, the new nurse-centric show to hit TV screens this summer, premiered this week on TNT. In an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal, the star of the show Jada Pinkett Smith had this to say about what kind of tone the show tries to achieve:
We’re really going for a dramedy…. You have extremes in a hospital. You have life and death. The quirkiest, funniest things happen in hospitals. I never really thought of that. The stories that these (real-life) nurses were telling me — just things that you would never imagine that happen. And it’s something we even want to explore more…. We really tried hard and continue to do so in making this a place where you laugh and cry.
Could HawthoRNe prove to be the ‘dutiful older sister’ to ‘wild child’ Nurse Jackie? Hear real life nurses voice their opinions about HawthoRNe and Nurse Jackie here. Scrubsmag.com also hosts an exclusive interview with Jada Pinkett Smith’s mother – a real life veteran nurse – about her daughter, Jada, the nursing profession, and Jada’s new show.
Unfortunately I think it was a swing and a miss so far. It really did not keep my attention.. and the darn commercials were ridiculous. We’ll see if it gets any better. I truly hope it does.