NBC's SMASH, Season 2 -- Discussion- Page 101

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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.

[JayKurnitz]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:49pm

Yeah, it's tacky as hell.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:53pm

#NoDayBut2Day #Never4Get #Never 4Give

[Ham3]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:55pm

So Jerry is gonna produce Hit List on Bway. I'm shocked, shocked.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:55pm

Let Me B UR *

[broadway guy]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:56pm

I feel like this whole episode was in bad taste.

[JayKurnitz]

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.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:58pm

Remember when there were people who were insistent Kyle wasn't going to die?

[Ham3]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:58pm

So ... are we never going to hear Bernadette do At Your Feet?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:59pm

Let Me B UR (_*_)

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:01pm

[Borstalboy]

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.

[CurtainPullDowner]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

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.

[lovebwy]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:17pm

Be sure to keep in touch C.C., ok?

Well sure. We're friends aren't we?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:20pm

Just reading those lines I immediately hear a succession of camera snaps in my head.

[sr4mjc]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:21pm

http://tvline.com/2013/05/04/smash-andy-mientus-kyle-dies-dead-interview/

Still tacky.

[Borstalboy]

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.

Updated On: 5/4/13 at 09:25 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:27pm

So if Hit List is a Rent parallel does that mean Bombshell is Victor/Victoria?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:32pm

No, it's more like PRYMATE.

[orangeskittles]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:35pm

Is that Pepper's brother?