Smash: Discussion Thread

[alwaysAMC]

I know! Finally, a good soapy cliffhanger... and the season is almost over.

I do love me some of the Bombshell songs though - that could be a successful soundtrack.

[marceline]

Show, I try to defend you and then you pull [!@#$%^&*] like that church scene.

*gives Smash the same hand gesture Julia gave Michael Swift*

[DRW50]

What was it?

[marceline]

It was Karen "wowing" the congregation at Sam's church. Even though Sam, a member of that congregation since he was a baby, came home to visit. Apparently, the show decided to give him one verse then hand the entire rest of the number over to Karen who proceeded to turn into a member of the Winans Family.

It was just more of the "Isn't Karen faaaaaabulous?" garbage that I have grown sick to death of.

[DRW50]

I can't believe any show still does that type of thing, it's so patronizing and colonialist. Geez.

Maybe they are setting up a guest appearance by Lily Tomlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBkr3O0b1PE

[JackPeyton]

Wow, Ivy is just horrendous. Seriously it is beyond me how anyone can root for her, outside of MH just being fab.

[marceline]

LOL! That's exactly how I feel about Karen. I get Ivy. I understand her motivation. Karen's character was summed up for me by her line to Rebecca, "I guess I'm just not as ambitious as everybody else." No, honey, you sure aren't.

[JackPeyton]

if sleeping your way into roles, hooking up with other peoples boyfriends, being a needy, desprate, whinny, entitled, obnoxious bitch because you feel you deserve better is ambitious, then i am glad Karen isnt as ambitious as Ivy.

[marceline]

Argh! I don't want to fight with you Jack. You're one of my favorite posters. So let's agree to disagree, sing Rhianna in Times Square like our respective girls did and find some common ground.

Here's something I think we can all agree on: Leo sucks.

[Ann_SS]

The New York Times gave Megan Hilty rave reviews for her performance in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Here is the link:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/theater/reviews/gentlemen-prefer-blondes-with-megan-hilty-at-city-center.html?hp&gwh=17B916C61787F4F22A3CF8607A8BB48D

[JackPeyton]

Cheers, ill drink to that!

and i am sorry, but are we supposed to believe that Ivy and Dev didnt know who eachother? Because... i dont. At all.

[marceline]

Well that just sucked. Smash officially had the worst season finale of all the shows I watch so far.

I'll be back next season but they better get their [!@#$%^&*] together.

[DRW50]

What bothered you? Was it Karen winning?

[JackPeyton]

The only thing about Ivy and that bottle of pills is she wont die. She is such a desperate, entitled, pathetic try hard.

Karen was great. I need her and the producers whos name i can never remember to hook up.

Hopefully we never see the worst character since JarJar Binks, Ellis, again.

[marceline]

Not just her winning. The idea that she's so amazing, so talented, so superhuman that she could go from being an understudy who wasn't even paying attention to the changes in the show to learning everything, including a brand new song, in a single afternoon. It was her unprofessional hissy fit. It was Derek being a complete ass to Eileen. It was the idea that Tom and Julia could write a whole new ending and have that ending completely staged fifteen minutes prior to the show opening. I spent the entire episode screaming "WTF?!" at the screen. Everything leading up the performance was ridiculous but sitting through Karen standing on stage while Ivy was in the dressing room with a bottle of pills was just too much heavy-handed "You WILL love Karen" bullshit.

Somebody on another board said it perfectly. Smash wasn't Team Karen vs. Team Ivy. It was Team Broadway vs. Team Hollywood. I'm Team Broadway.