Smash Season 1: Episode 15: “Bombshell” “Yes, Derek, we’re all under a lot of pressure but according to Equity, there are still breaks.” About 12 hours ago the finale of Smash started with a major tease. A first person single camera shot of “someone” walking from backstage to Marilyn’s first position behind the curtain. Luckily Uma Thurman wasn’t in this ep so Quentin Tarantino probably wasn’t watching and puking at the terrible camera work....
Smash Season 1: Episode 14: “Previews” “She died!” The penultimate episode of Smash brought just about every relationship (and possible combination of couples) to a frothy boil. They’re either breaking up (Ivy & Derek, Tom & Julia), making up (Dev & Karen), fucking up (Dev & Ivy) or looking like twinsies (Eileen & Nick — more on this later). That dancer, whose name I will never learn, said it right, “You go out of...
Smash Season 1: Episode 13: “Tech” “Oh, it’s called a spine, Tom!” It would have to be unlucky episode 13 that turned everyone into their worst selves. Everything felt wrong last night. From the motley crew leaving for Boston from Grand Central (um, Metro North goes to mid-CT not all the way to Beantown, you need to go to Penn Station for THAT) to Dev asking Karen to marry him (um, don’t you know...
Smash Season 1: Episode 11: “The Movie Star” “You were just using me to get to Rebecca. And I hate users!” Last night we got to see Uma Thurman in all her glory. Rebecca Duvall’s version of “Let Me Be Your Star” at the workshop felt like we were watching a repeat of Lana Del Rey on SNL. Yikes. By the end of the episode, however, Reebs was scat-ing her way into my heart....
Singing! Dancing! MOTHERFUCKING jazz hands! Glee and Smash, each in their own ostentatious way, have (two)stepped the joys of musicals from Broadway into your living room. As reality television has taught us, one thing makes watching live performances infinitely more entertaining: JUDGEMENT From the divalicious halls of McKinley to the blinding lights of Broadway, we compare musical numbers from television’s only musical shows to ask the ultimate showbiz question: Who did it best? ...
Smash Season 1. Episode 10. “Understudy” “Who was that?” — Ellis “Castro’s brother, Raoul” — Eileen “Really?” — Ellis “No, don’t be ridiculous.” — Eileen Smash teased Episode 10 as being the big night we would meet the “new” Marilyn, movie star, Ms. Rebecca Duvall (aka Uma Thurman). Sticking true to form as always, Smash did not introduce her until the last possible moment. Literally. Karen filled in for Ms. Duvall the whole night...
Smash Season 1: Episode 9: “Hell on Earth” “She just walks into this city with that Midwestern moonface and lands everything.” Last night lots of subplots spiraled out of control and came to a head. My favorite of them all wasn’t Julia’s affair being exposed, Ivy’s pill-popping ruining “Heaven on Earth” or Tom’s non-interest in John, it was “Sheesh, she has my sunglasses!?” The case of the mistaken sunglasses really was the through-line of...
Smash Season 1: Episode 8: “The Coup” ”I totally understand why you’d stab Tom and Julia in the back like that.” We get it too! They are the whiniest composer/songwriters ever! While the aftermath of “The Workshop” wasn’t quite the dystopian future of The Hunger Games, it was a bit of a wasteland for our favorite Broadway writers, singers, directors and producers. From the weird electonica dancing on a bed in a sheet-dress to...
Smash Season 1: Episode 7: “The Workshop” “The child thing never ceases to perplex me.” — Derek “Because you’re a reptile.” — Tom I’ve got to say last night’s episode made me really want Smash to do well and actually become a Broadway musical a la Grease: You’re the One That I Want. On the other hand, it also made me really want Smash to get cancelled so Megan Hilty can return to Broadway....
Smash Season 1: Episode 6: “Chemistry” “How’s your big buck hunter, Ralph?” Everyone’s role was clearly defined last night on Smash. Ivy hulked out on Prednisone. Tom acted like her creepy father-lover. Karen beguiled a crowd of tweens. Julia & Michael slutted it up. And, Eileen became the most uncomfortable granny hipster of all time. Julia & Michael We learned some important things about Julia and Swifty last night. Julia wears grandma pantalones that...
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