#2501
Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:43pm
It's funny that Julia has a line about exploiting Kyle's death when this whole plotline is an exploitation of Jonathan Larson's death.
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#2502
Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:46pm
Phyllis-
I was JUST mentioning that exact thought to my partner. Apparently it wasn't enough that they had to steal the whole workshop storyline - they had to go for the real life (and for many people still incredibly painful) storyline. Very frustrating.
I was JUST mentioning that exact thought to my partner. Apparently it wasn't enough that they had to steal the whole workshop storyline - they had to go for the real life (and for many people still incredibly painful) storyline. Very frustrating.
#2505
Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:55pm
So Jerry is gonna produce Hit List on Bway. I'm shocked, shocked.
#2508
Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:57pm
To Kyle!
Gotta say, loved that zinger Karen got in for next weeks preview:
Ivy: See you on the red carpet!
Karen: Yeah, if you make it there.
Boom! Roasted.
Gotta say, loved that zinger Karen got in for next weeks preview:
Ivy: See you on the red carpet!
Karen: Yeah, if you make it there.
Boom! Roasted.
#2509
Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:58pm
Remember when there were people who were insistent Kyle wasn't going to die?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#2513
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:05pm
Poor Kyle.
It seems only last week you were being chipper, then worried, then chipper, then worried. Weaving us all into your co-dependent spell.
We were the dependent ones, Kyle. We were.
It seems only last week you were being chipper, then worried, then chipper, then worried. Weaving us all into your co-dependent spell.
We were the dependent ones, Kyle. We were.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#2514
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:08pm
And just as Julia was giving the explotation speech, a huge RENT poster loomed.
Jeeez, we get it.
Jeeez, we get it.
#2515
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:10pm
I was hoping at one point he'd pop up and tell us that he jumped over the moon. But alas, there was no moon for Kyle. No stars, either. Just the dimming light of the young book writer of a sung through musical.
#2516
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:10pm
"Remember all those people who were insistent that Kyle didn't die?"
MEA CULPA!
Really he's better off. Why WOULD he want to live if he couldn't have beautiful, hunky, tortured Jimmy? I wish I were joking.
I just hope some drunken night Jimmy let Kyle suck him off.
MEA CULPA!
Really he's better off. Why WOULD he want to live if he couldn't have beautiful, hunky, tortured Jimmy? I wish I were joking.
I just hope some drunken night Jimmy let Kyle suck him off.
#2517
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:11pm
“The Phenomenon” is such a bafflingly miscalculated piece of television that I’m hard-pressed to figure out exactly why anyone thought it would work. And yet as you watch it, it’s obvious that everybody involved thinks this is going to be some truly powerful stuff that will leave viewers weeping and Emmy voters filling out their ballots with Smash written down from top to bottom. “The Phenomenon” is so bad that I urge all of you to rush out, to find it on Hulu, to watch it right now, because it must be experienced. In fact, I paused it 10 minutes in on my screener to ask my wife to come watch it with me, because I needed to see it with her. It really needs to be shared, like a beloved family heirloom or a viral infection. “The Phenomenon” is such a misstep that it sort of loops back around to being entertaining again. Everything about it actively offended me, but I also wanted to watch it all over again.
AV Club
AV Club
#2518
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:17pm
Be sure to keep in touch C.C., ok?
Well sure. We're friends aren't we?
Well sure. We're friends aren't we?
#2519
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:20pm
Just reading those lines I immediately hear a succession of camera snaps in my head.
#2520
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:21pm
#2521
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:25pm
That AV Club recap nails it, nails it, nails it.
Oh, and I actually own the shirt Jimmy was wearing during his PARENT TRAP via DRUGSTORE COWBOY moment. Which made me uncomfortable.
Oh, and I actually own the shirt Jimmy was wearing during his PARENT TRAP via DRUGSTORE COWBOY moment. Which made me uncomfortable.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Updated On: 5/4/13 at 09:25 PM
#2522
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:27pm
So if Hit List is a Rent parallel does that mean Bombshell is Victor/Victoria?
#2524
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:35pm
Good to know I wasn't the only one who found it offensive. Everyone on Twitter seems to think it's especially brilliant. Don't get me started on Tepper.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
