NBC's SMASH, Season 2 -- Discussion — Page 19

I BELIEVE Shaiman/Wittman will provide the new musical numbers for Liaisons- there was a Facebook photo of Shaiman with the Liaisons cast, posing together.

Also it supposed to be a revival so it can't sound too "Now" or "New".

"There's zero doubt that this is NOT a case where one can fault the marketing--which often is the case when a quality show disappears..."

I think he/she means that you can't blame the marketing for the show's failure as he/she feels that the marketing is usually the reason a show fails....

Never mind the ratings...

According to EricMontreal it is.

" '"There's zero doubt that this is NOT a case where one can fault the marketing--which often is the case when a quality show disappears...'

I'm sorry but, WHAT?"

Ha, sorry that was pretty incoherent even for me. Often when a beloved show disappears--I mentioned My So-Called Life, Firefly is another one--they never got much promotion from the network at all. Obviously that's not the case with Smash, was my very basic point. I was replying to Finebydesign who said the show was doing badly in the ratings because it was terrible, not due to lack of marketing. It's a pretty obvious point I guess, but while quality is subjective, there are many times that people fault the low ratings of a show due to the network having no faith in it in the first place.

Carlos, it's "he" :P

@benjpasek sometimes you gotta rip off a band-aid and sometimes you gotta eat mint chocolate chip by the carton immediately after.

@briandarcyjames No news is good news until it's bad news then it sucks that it's bad news. Take me back to the "no news" part.

Hmmm...

No offense to the disabled community, but that collection is lame.

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To be fair, it's a bit hard to have a storyline where you say "You have to listen to the music this guy writes, it's amazing!" when using original music. Changing it to "This guy writes ok, maybe good, songs! You must listen!" doesn't work as well.

I don't even think he's pretty. I never understood his supposed appeal in NEWSIES (didn't see BONNIE AND CLYDE, though); I thought the character in NEWSIES as played by Ben Fankhauser was much more appealing and interesting. But I certainly agree that Jordan's not a very adept actor, at least at this point. And now he's going to play Jamie in a film of THE LAST FIVE YEARS(??) Should have been Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who's at least ethnically appropriate.

Jordan was horrible in A Joyful Noise. His acting is very wooden and to me he looks like a monchichi and I never wanted to bang one of those.

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"Jordan was horrible in A Joyful Noise." Yes he was, but that script was just horrendous. They could have gotten "prettier," Glee has that. When he acts "street" it is just downright cringe worthy.

Anyone watching?

“WE HAVE A HUGE TELEVISED BROADWAY CONCERT IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS AND WE HAVE DANCERS FLOATING IN AND OUT AND WE DON’T KNOW WHAT SONG WE’RE SINGING.
#YOLO #YOLO #YOLO #YOLO #YOLO #YOLO #YOLO #YOLO"
-Smash Logic