Loly Jones Really good TV series but season 3 was messy. I feel that the writers of season 1 and 2 were different writers in season 3...here an explanation of the mess in season 3 (Spoiler): ***Who would attack Christina so viciously and why? Explanation they try to sell on Season 3: They said that the attacker was a man (Gerry Brandon) who dropped off his daughter (Vivica Cross) at the hospital and disappear because her diabetes got bad on Season 3, Ep 2.How is possible this man was the attacker of Christina in Season 3 Ep 1?? Nick, the detective, killed this man and at the end of Season 3 Ep 1 he brings the ring of the attacker to Christina in the hospital ( The only thing Christina remembers of the attack was that he was wearing a ring with ruby stone).How could the father drop off his daughter if Nick killed him in the previous episode? His dead body is found on Season 3, Ep 3...in Episode 4, detective James Dupree disclose to Tom and Christina that "According to the autopsy report of Gerry Brandon from the time that Christina was attacked to the time the attacker was killed ..was just 19 hours". From Season 3 Ep 1 when she was attacked to when Vivica Cross was drop off in the hospital few days already pass, just look at Christina's recovery...Impossible for the same person to attack Christina and 3 days later drop off his daughter at the hospital....HUGE mistake from the writers.( Season 3 ) Episode 1: Christina gets attacked / Nick killed the attacker and brings the ring of the attacker to Christina in the hospital ( The only thing Christina remember of the attack was that he was wearing a ring with ruby stone).Episode 2: Gerry Brandon dropped off his daughter (Vivica Cross) at the hospital and disappear because her diabetes got bad. He kidnapped her 4 years ago, he was an abusive man to his wife, Renee Cross. Christina looks like already pass at least 3 days from the attack.Episode 3: Gerry Brandon body is found and reported to be Christina's attacker.Episode 4: Detective James Dupree from Internal Affairs disclosed to Tom and Christina that "According to the autopsy report of Gerry Brandon from the time that Christina was attacked to the time the attacker was killed ..was just 19 hours".Episode 5: Detective James Dupree from Internal Affairs asked Christina "if she ever solicit detective Renata to kill her attacker?" and interrogate Nick about the dead of Gerry Brandon who was part of a gang. Dupree claim Nick found out who was the attacker thanks to the security cameras in the area. Christina save the ring from her attacker under the wood floor of her house.Episode 9: Nick's mother died. A message saying "Eye for an Eye" was written with red can paint in the walls of his room with a ring hanging from an screwdriver similar to the one from Christina's attacker, Gerry Brandon, who was part of a gang. A older man with similar ring take the elevator hospital with Tom and makes sure he recognize the ring...same man show up at Nick's mother funeral.Episode 10: The man with the ring show up at the hospital again and see Christina. Nick gets shot in his car. END.More questions: ***Where is Dr Erin in season 3? ***What happened with Candy and Ray? I know they split but why, where is Ray? ***Miles and Camille (really with a married man?!)..Where is Marcus?

TamPalm I have steadily tried to watch this show. It seems like something people like me--those who like "Men of a Certain Age" and such--should like. But it's nowhere near that caliber of show. The writing is horrid and the acting leaves a lot to be desired.I have come to terms with the idea that Pinkett-Smith is just not that strong an actress to carry this kind of show. She was at her best as the sassy around-the-way chick in her films. That was not too much a stretch for her and it worked well for her. Nurse Hawthorne? Not so much. I liked the flirting back and forth between her character and the doctor in the first season, but now they've thrown Marc Anthony in the mix and it's just a jumbled mess. The one saving grace the picture had--the chemistry between Hawthorne and the doc--is now gone. And the daughter--MAJOR casting mistake! Her look is wrong, the script given to her character is wrong, and her acting is just not good! Also, I see now they've thrown in Derek Luke. A decent actor who seems to be falling victim of the horrible script like the rest of the cast. Finally, you have the nurse friend who was previously in the background who's now been thrust up front. Huh? Just the whole plot of this show is going from bad to worse.Stick a fork in it. Either do a complete overhaul TNT, or just let this one go.3 out of 10 is all I can muster.

auntydle I wanted to like this show but I was completely turned off by Christina's behavior in the first major scene of the pilot episode.I figure we were supposed to be cheering her on. After all, she's a crusader (maverick, rebel, whatever) who cares more about the patient than the rules. Because the rules are stupid, right? Never mind that she didn't have her id badge and looked like a lunatic, barefoot and unkempt, that night. If someone comes crashing through a security checkpoint in any building, and has no ID, they will be arrested. Seriously, what did she expect? Christina does whatever she feels is best for the patient, never mind the doctors, rules, or laws for that matter.I saw a bit of another episode and it was more of the same crap. A friend of Christina's had a sick baby and was allowed to skip to the front of the line. The doctor who tried to follow protocol is an a$$ who doesn't really care about the patients.Her behavior is supposed to be seen as courageous, I guess, because she's bucking a system that doesn't really work. But her methods aren't about changing the system. She only helps individual patients with their immediate problems. It's a sad truth that the only way to change a system is through the administration. So she's basically disregarding the best way to help the majority of the patients for the satisfaction of showing up an single doctor or administrator.

sammikat007 I see by other reviews that this is one of those love-it or hate-it kinda shows & I'm definitely in the LOVE IT camp! Jada Pinkett-Smith is at the top of her form & so is the rest of the cast. I know some reviewers on this site don't seem to like the fact that the show centers around its title character, but PLEASE. I don't find Mrs. Smith's portrayal anything short of a FLAWLESS portrayal of a flawed person. She doesn't always have the answers, either. Sometimes her methods don't work the way she wants them to & she recognizes it. Other characters are given plenty of screen time as well as plot lines and this show is a breath of fresh air for the hospital drama genre! Keep it coming TNT, this is your best original program EVER!!