If "Bombshell" were an actual show...- Page 3

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/24/12 at 6:11pm

I kind of wonder what the show would be like if Mandy Moore played Karen. I feel like she has the right quality for the role.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 5/24/12 at 7:38pm

Not to go all fanboy but I LOVE Mandy Moore, always been a fan of hers.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/24/12 at 7:54pm

I can take or leave her music, but I've always thought she was a pretty good actress.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/24/12 at 8:44pm

I like her singing voice fine, but these are pretty much the only songs she's done that I can stand. (Okay, that's not totally true, I do think "Candy" is catchy.)

Secret Love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fieNHFylrqw

Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQf9_Xb9cw

Only Hope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8f8RHWMPyY

[RainbowJude]

Posted: 5/26/12 at 2:27am

broadwaybabytn wrote: I remember that scene (where they were throwing names around for the role). And then they had Derek say "Sutton Foster" just so that Christian Borle could make a face.

Isn't that what happens most of the time when Sutton Foster's name is batted about? Marilyn may have been many things, but her allure certainly didn't end with the generic glossy professionalism that Foster radiates.

henrikegerman wrote: McPhee is well cast. Karen is supposed to be an unlikely choice for Marilyn, and an inexperienced performer and sweet new girl in town.... The show is now at a point where Karen may begin to surprise everyone. Her performance at the preview, especially of the new final song, was surprisingly good.

The question is, and I see it has been raised by others here, whether Katharine McPhee will begin to surprise everyone and whether 'surprisingly good' is good enough. Of course, the medium of TV can quite easily make that happen what with everything being pre-recorded and with no expectation that we will ever see the whole of BOMBSHELL live in one go.

[hyperbole_and_a_half]

Posted: 5/26/12 at 6:59am

I really kind of hated that the show would just tell the audience that McPhee is better than Hilty and never provide any sensory evidence to back it up. Like the workshop: Ivy kills it and Karen falls off a chair, but we're supposed to believe that Ivy's performance was the disastrous one? Hilty outsings McPhee in "Let Me Be Your Star" and in the next episode Karen is vocal coaching Ivy? The entire Ivy/Karen rivalry is littered with little digs like that, and it's maddening.

Mostly, though, I loathe that Karen never worked for any of her successes. She's waiting tables part-time in New York, yet has a sizable apartment and only a couple hundred dollars of credit card debt. She had a loving and exceptionally supportive boyfriend, yet she constantly skipped important dates and couldn't be bothered to care about his career or goals (but notice, again, that the show wants us to believe that Ivy and not Karen doomed that relationship). Her first job in New York is a prestigious workshop where she's being groomed for the lead. She gets lifestyle grief from her father, but wins him and his money over by singing karaoke. She "learns" how to blend into the ensemble by standing center stage and singing a solo in an Adele song. She shows up unprepared to a Bar Mitzvah and lands a recording contract. She slumps into a national commercial casting without an agent, and books it the same day. She becomes nationally famous for walking in a movie star's shadow. The one time the show asks her to step up to the plate and learn Marilyn in 10 hours, she throws a wobbly and brings rehearsal to a screeching halt (but Ivy is the unprofessional one).

Because of McPhee's dead-eyed acting and the general Mary Sue-ness of her character, everything about her alleged "triumph" in the final episode was unearned and fell flat. Poor shat upon Ivy may have weaponized Dev's infidelity against Karen (again, who drove Dev to infidelity in the first place?), but she's the only potential Marilyn that had put in the time, the dues, the research and the effort to play that role. Ivy had been with Bombshell since its inception, and of Hilty, McPhee and Thurman, Hilty is the superior musical actress. I don't understand how anybody could've been satisfied with that finale.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/26/12 at 7:44am

Aside from liking her in the finale, I thought McPhee was pretty strong in this number. Also, as somebody already mentioned, her dancing is feminine and lovely.


20th Century Fox Mambo

Updated On: 5/26/12 at 07:44 AM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 9:27am

McPhee is cute, y'all, don't front. Don't you even think about frontin'. Basically, front at your own risk.
'Don't stare at me when I'm talking'

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 10:40am

This my point, it seems that when people are discussing the "Ivy VS Karen" issue, it's always, "Megan would never get upstaged by a new girl like Katherine"….going back to it being personal like it's Megan herself who is getting the shaft.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 10:40am

This my point, it seems that when people are discussing the "Ivy VS Karen" issue, it's always, "Megan would never get upstaged by a new girl like Katherine"….going back to it being personal like it's Megan herself who is getting the shaft.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/29/12 at 6:01am

If anybody needs a Wesley Taylor fix:
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/wesley+taylor