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.
