'Hawthorne': TV Love in Black and White

I am glad that this show is back. I have to admit, I have questioned the lack of 'black male' love interest of Christina. Then I remembered I was taking about a movie on TV. Did I expect anything different? On some level it is disappointing. I am not sure how they would sell a black couple working in a hospital without one of them being a janiter or secretary. Needless to say, season premiere was excellent. I hope you saw it.

The population of Richmond, Va., is 50 percent black. It stands to reason that a single black woman living in said city, or even starring in a television show set in said city, might find herself involved with a black man, at least on occasion. Not that she has to, but it just seems plausible. No one bothered to mention that to Jada Pinkett Smith.

Tonight marks the return of Hawthorne, her TNT medical melodrama, which she executive-produces and stars in as Christina Hawthorne, the chief nursing officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital. During the show's brief history, matters of the heart for her character have trended in, shall we say, an unbalanced manner.

Let's retrace the relationship arc of Hawthorne: Her ex-husband and the father of her daughter is white. Cool. Her own on-again, off-again Dr. McDreamy is white. Pattern established -- but what the hell, it's 2011. Then, late last season, a new love interest emerged. His name (in real life) is Marc Anthony. Yep, that one. Granted, he's Puerto Rican, and that does swing the racial pendulum a bit, but we're not quite there yet.

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