...or is at least vaguely familiar with the concept. I'm writing this as the pilot episode of HawthoRNe airs on the network, and it's as bad as the reviews have suggested. And yeah, Showtime's Nurse Jackie is a far superior show, although I didn't like the pilot nearly as much as a lot of other people did.
I don't want to pile on, and it seems like I'd just be repeating a lot of other people's criticisms. But watching HawthoRNe, I'm struck by something New York Post critic Michael Starr wrote: Christina Hawthorne seems like a superhero.
And superheroes are boring, unless you're nerdy Peter Parker or haunted Bruce Wayne. No one wants to watch someone be right all the time. Greg House is right nearly all the time, but he's also a jerk. Jack Bauer's right all the time too, but that's on a show where characterization isn't really important.
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