NBC's SMASH - Series & Broadway Adaptation Thread — Page 58

Hilty sounded amazing in the last song. Huston looked stunning in the episode no wonder People Magazine listed her as beautiful at age 60.

http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20360857_20360861,00.html#21144149

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT ANYTHING IS ANYMORE!!!!"

Season Two, Leo gets shipped off to boarding school, right?
Bonus clip: Raza Jaffrey's (Dev) first time around the Bollywood block, as the lead in the West End's BOMBAY DREAMS!

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I love that Uma looks terrified in this picture.

WHY IS FRANK ALWAYS CHOPPING SALAD?!

sweeneytodd2: Funny that you should be inquiring about CHOPPING, Mr. Todd!!

The Bollywood number was ridiculous, but I loved it. If this show is going to be a trashy soap (and that's the thing it's been best at), I want fantasy production numbers involving the full cast EVERY episode. Actually, that's one thing that some bloggers have pointed out, but I agree with--the show is advertised as a musical, but the people making it seem to want to ground the songs in "reality" (which seems to mean people breaking out in song at bowling alleys or any other reason to do a dull cover). I wish it would just go full out and not feel it needed to make up some drug side effect for a reason to sing to the mirror, etc.

Was the Bollywood number by Shaiman/Wittman? (I know pastiche is their strong point--or arguably their only point--but I wondered if they got an outside composer in for it like they did for Karen's Britney-Spears-as-Marilyn number)

Anyway I enjoyed today's episode. Used Grand Piano or whatever was a beautiful song, but it does bring me back to the problem with Bombshell as an actual musical. I assume the Marilyn at the actor's studio stuff would happen midway through the show or so--so really, stop the show with a song that doesn't advance the plot and only slightly develops character, and give it to a "phantom Marilyn"? Oh well.

Did Christian dancer boy give in and have sex? They seemed to be on a bed, but were fully clothed unlike that slut played by Anjelica.

Thanks--I loved it so kudos to them.

"Laura Osnes would be SO much better than Kat McPhee, cause Laura is one of our own, Laura is a big ol' friggin' Broadway star and only a big ol' friggin Broadway star should play a potential big ol' friggin' Broadway star in a TV show about a potential big ol' Broadway star, cause we don't see nothin' good about McPhee, no sir, she has no screen presence, she has no singing talent, she can't act LIKE LAURA OSNES can NOPE NOPE NOPE, I mean its not like Laura Osnes got HER start on at TV reality singing show, nope she is so much better than that!!!!"

I'm sorry, but I think that Kat McPhee has no screen presence and is a bad actress. She plays her role like she's sleepwalking through it. She acts like she doesn't care about anything that happens to her. Her singing is okay, but we're supposed to believe that it's better than or at least as good as Megan Hilty's and IMO it isn't.

Her American Idol roots have nothing to do with it. The only time I found Kat McPhee interesting on screen was when she sang "Happy Birthday" to Jack Davenport, in the Marilyn "hallucination" scenes, and in that Bollywood number last night.

Maybe Laura Osnes wouldn't be better, but it's hard to imagine how she could be worse.

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Updated On: 4/24/12 at 09:44 AM

I would NEVER leave a rehearsal just off a text like that. That bugged me. I know that they keep saying she is new and "green" but that just seemed way out of character for someone like Karen who is trying so hard to make it. Not to mention that, like others have pointed out, she must have just left her things behind.

Dev could very well be the most irritating, passive-aggressive boyfriend in television history. Dump him and have Karen move in with some lively roommates.

Now that sulky teenage son is "happy", can we maybe reduce his character to, oh, one brief appearance a season? Or replace him a la Sarah Chalke with the kid who played his friend, who at least had some charisma?

I'm sorry, Brian D'Arcy James is just not very good in this.

Hilty sang the hell out of that nice ballad.

After a really strong episode last week, the script here once again veered all over the place in terms of tone.

Oh, and what happened to the "She can't BREATHE!" moment they showed in the teaser?

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What sticks in my craw is the fact that Raza Jaffrey is a charming and H-O-T actor who has been asked to be nothing but a nasty little pill. What was it that Frank Rich said about Charlotte D'Amboise in Carrie? 'Hideously misused'? That term applies here as well.

BUT...the Bollywood number was terrific.

So, I have a question. Why all the Katharine McPhee hate? Not the character, but the actor. I think she's great, but many seem to despise her. Just wondering why, that's all.

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Again, not to be the Smash cheerleader but when we first met "Dev" there was nothing but love for him. He's had a nice character to play, inspiring a range of emotions.