NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread- Page 31

[CukorLover]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:01pm

per TV by the Numbers:

"Smash fell to a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating, down 11% vs. a 2.7 rating last week"

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:07pm

In terms of the inconsistency in the story, I look on it as Ivy and Jessica having taken a leave of absence from Heaven on Earth, though the bar mitzvah gig still doesn't make sense, unless they were going to take that evening off from Heaven on Earth.

I had the sense that the bat mitzvah was an evening during the week. Having never been to one I know nothing about them. Is it appropriate to have one on a weeknight? That was the impression that I had and thought maybe they didn't have a Wednesday evening show.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:11pm

I'm on Team Bitchfight...I want to see Ninny McPhee and Poison Ivy get all Celebrity Death Match!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:21pm

Nobody has a bar mitzvah on a weeknight.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:29pm

Perhaps we are supposed to suspend disbelief...

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:29pm

Wait...WAS it a weeknight? I couldn't wrap my head around that, even though I think that's what was implied.

If I was invited to that bar mitzvah, I would have taken some cash back from the envelope. What a snooze!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:45pm

I love how everybody refers to Karen's being from Iowa at least once a show, like she's from Mars or something.

Not surprising the ratings have dropped. There's too many characters and nothing is going on! Only theater people would consider this to be real drama and even that's a stretch. Did you know Tammy Grimes once hated a co-star so much, she peed on his costume! This is more of the sort of drama SMASH is screaming for, not this I'm-cheating-on-my-husband-my-son-is-smoking-pot-I-have-a-really-bitchy-hangnail-that-is-killing-me crap.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:50pm

I refuse to believe the son was smoking pot, cause that boy is so stupid, he needs to be reminded to breathe.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 12:57pm

If Rachel Shukert does not post her recap soon, I'M gonna have a prednisone meltdown.


But back to my original rant...an entire subplot about Anjelica Huston's character looking for an apartment and finding a fun new bar?? Come on, SMASH!

[kdogg36]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 1:05pm

I refuse to believe the son was smoking pot, cause that boy is so stupid, he needs to be reminded to breathe.

I'll volunteer for that job.

[bwayrose7]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 1:22pm

As far as Karen goes I'm torn. She has a beautiful blue, but her acting is rather wooden, which makes it hard to like her as much as we're supposed to. I've grown to like Tom more every week- he's like the main voice of sanity and delightful snark.
I know I'm in the (vast) minority but I still sort of like Michael and Julia. I don't like the adultery but I can see the connection there. They have a bond because they understand that world of music and drama and heightened emotions. Frankly they're the only couple I actually buy. Derek is a grade-A jerk an I can't see what Ivy likes about him. And Dev is so boring and one-dimensional. So although I don't "approve" so to say, I am sort of hoping that somehow Michael and Julia make it work.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 1:43pm

I've taken it. A lot of it at one point. IT DOESN'T DO THAT

It's like when someone takes one hit of marijuana and starts hallucinating like they dropped a sheet of acid. TV exists to send out misinformation about drugs.

Ivy may be unprofessional, but I think Karen is even more so. And yeah, it's because she's from Iowa, because it's another planet and even though she dreamed of being a Broadway star clearly she was unable to find out anything about what that life would be like until she was long into her days in New York. "What, I should be taking classes?" I mean, she's clearly brain-damaged, which makes her plight all the more touching.

I thought the bar mitzvah subplot was going to culminate with her getting her ass handed to her for being such an unprofessional cooze.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 2:01pm

I'm half expecting Karen to show up to rehearsals with a helmet on so she doesn't do any more damage.

And how AWESOME would it have been if Ivy went out the window all mid-80's Helen Hunt style??? That's one way for Karen to get the part!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 2:17pm

When Zach from ALL MY CHILDREN starts boinkin' Angelica will she demand a role be written for him in her Musical?

And where's Arthur Miller?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 3:05pm

If you saw Thorston Kaye's first soap run as Patrick on One Life to Live--the Irish politico with the soul of a poet--where he constantly had to sing a horrible song, you really had better hope that they don't cast him in the musical. As a long time OLTL and All My Children fan it's always kinda strange when I see an actor I associate with soaps on a prime time show ("What's Zack doing working behind a bar??") For that matter, I have certainly been to bars where people have bought an extra shot for the bartender, although many bartenders won't take it, but it felt really odd that in this so-called dive bar someone would buy a martini for the bartender...

Anyway, suspend disbelief... I actually kinda liked the hallucination. Partly because it was so campy--something I want more of on this show. Yeah, I doubted that drug would do that, but I can buy that in a heightened reality, soap opera way, the drug combined with too much stress, paranoia and lack of sleep could cause something like that--I know I've had slight experiences of thinking I saw something I didn't when I'm on edge (at least I did as a teenager--ie hearing people talking and thinking it's about you, etc).

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But back to my original rant...an entire subplot about Anjelica Huston's character looking for an apartment and finding a fun new bar?? Come on, SMASH!"

BorstalBoy, I'm enjoying the show a lot more than I think you are, often despite myself, but spot on. The show should be going full throttle with, yes, more soapy stoires and to waste a full episode with Houston sorta floating around, discovering she enjoys the company of younger gay (I assume she thinks, like we all do, that Ellis is gay) men at some bar with a shooting game, at the midway point of season 1 no less, just makes me think if Theresa Rebeck and her writing team even have story meetings.

What plays this up even more is the last few previews for the next weeks episode are SOOO dramatic (last week they made it look like Ivy would have some crazy drug attack and OD or something and that Houston was going around trying to shoot her ex husband). The show's marketers seem to know better what kind of show to make it than the people writing the show who keep seeming to feel the need to pull back.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 3:19pm

Anjelica played Cinderella's wicked stepmother in Ever After, while Bernadette played Cinderella's wicked stepmother in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. Next week is gonna be epic!!

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 3:44pm

"I've taken it. A lot of it at one point. IT DOESN'T DO THAT"

It does to some people. It sure did something weird to me. I tried to take it on two separate occasions and nearly lost my mind. Perhaps I'm allergic to it but it sent me into another world entirely. Like a bad trip.

[CukorLover]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:22pm

the one reason i love the morning after !


Smash Recap: What Is This Bar Mitzvah You Speak Of?

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:35pm

I thought they were in a Dyke Bar, the BUSHWHACK?

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 5:17pm

"Smash fell to a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating, down 11% vs. a 2.7 rating last week"

I blame it on 'The Bachelor' and its 'After the Final Rose' special. The latter program aired in the same timeslot as 'Smash' and people were curious if the couple was still together or not.

"The night’s most-watched show was The Voice at 14.3 million, followed by the After the Rose ceremony (9.8 million)."

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/03/13/bummer-for-ben-bachelor-hits-ratings-low/ Updated On: 3/13/12 at 05:17 PM

[CukorLover]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 5:45pm

Funny, i blame it on a lame show.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 6:19pm

Why does DiMaggio get two duets with Marilyn? The show is about Marilyn, not Marilyn and DiMaggio. They have a lot more boyfriends/husbands to get through.

Also, I can't think of a single Broadway actor who looks like him. NLB comes closer than Will Chase at least.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 6:40pm

The two Joe/Marilyn duets we've seen both seem to basically be about how happy they are together too. It must be about a 5 hour show...

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 7:03pm

The two Joe/Marilyn duets we've seen both seem to basically be about how happy they are together too. It must be about a 5 hour show...

SMASH is so divorced from (and apparently uninterested in) musical theater reality, they haven't even mentioned the possibility that the first Joe/Marilyn song might have been discarded in favor of the second, have they?

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 3/13/12 at 7:07pm

It's a WORKSHOP. I really hope you don't think that ever musical just comes out in tip top shape ready for the big Broadway! There are many Broadway shows who have numerous songs that were used in workshops that didn't work and got tossed. Honestly, stringing out this workshop is a smart idea, for instance they get tired of Will Chase (is that his name) then alright, write him out of the musical.