NBC's SMASH, Season 2 -- Discussion — Page 27

But Liaisons is a revival, right? So it still wouldn't be in the same category as Bombshell, which is a new musical.

She should turn Andy and Wesley into bunnies. Or they should just $*#K like bunnies.

They will. If Smash has taught me anything, it's that if you argue with someone you will later have sex with them.

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After a dazzler of an opening with "Public Relations", it just turned into a watery soup last night. Jeremy Jordan's character went from irritating to boring. At least they're filming him flatteringly.

Those hoping for a season three are quite the Jiminy Cricket types.

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But Liaisons is a revival, right? So it still wouldn't be in the same category as Bombshell, which is a new musical.

It doesn't matter with Best Leading Actress in a Musical

anyone get the feeling that Liaisons won't open(or bombs) and thus we see Hilty back into the lead with Bombshell. Karen clearly picks Hit List over Bombshell next week. I still think the Hudson-led The Wiz revival also happens, thus come the Tony nominations we have Hilty-McPhee-Hudson going up against each other.

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The ratings are out, and Smash has hit a series low with a 0.7 ratings share. (This is also the rating Do No Harm had when it was pulled from the line-up.)

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OK, boys and girls, let's recap. In the course of a few months, Karen has gone from an unknown praying to get a callback for an ensemble role in Bombshell to a virtual producer/star, choosing to forego a starring role in big new Broadway show in which the famous director tells her she'd be a likely Tony winner as best actress in a musical, for a show with no book written by two unknowns.

I guess they forgot to tell us about her multi million dollar trust fund while she was working as a waitress struggling to make ends meet.

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This what?

RaisedOnMusicals, are you by any chance referencing Sartre's existential masterpiece NO EXIT? They have a character named "Conductor" that puts the three main characters into the same room. He is more or less just a bellboy like figure. It's a really awesome show!

As far as Season 2 goes... I'm liking it. I think Season 1 was better. I loved the entire season, and I know I'm alone there. The only character I'm happy with leaving the show is Ellis. Dev's plot pretty much ended, so his exit was tolerable as well. But whatever...

The cliffhanger from last night was great. I'm looking forward to next weeks show.

I hope this show gets a season 3, but it looks like NBC is heading their bets on the show. Last night seemed like one long add for Chicago Fire. Or, was I the only one who thought the ads for that show were entirely too obvious throughout the episode?

Updated On: 3/6/13 at 01:11 PM

"Smash" actually had higher ratings last night than it's lead-in, "The New Normal." I'm not sure why "Normal" is still on the air. Maybe NBC wants to develop programming to air in endless repeats on Bravo, which it also owns. Both "The New Normal" and "Smash" would fit on that network. It's clearly an NBC problem as much as a "Smash" problem. As much as I've disliked the 2nd season, it's on a terrible network with programs that most of America doesn't watch any night of the week. If it were a great show, it wouldn't be doing much in the ratings.

One of the NBC affiliates (in Cleveland) aired a rerun of "Matlock" last week or so as a protest against the Academy Awards snubbing Andy Griffith in the "In Memoriam" segment of the show, pre-empting a two hour block of NBC network programming. Considering that the Academy Awards were on ABC and not on NBC, an NBC affiliate doing that made no sense. Except for the fact that their network gets terrible ratings for all their programs, 7 nights a week. They did that on a Thursday night and pre-empted "The Office" and "1600 Penn" and got comparable ratings with those NBC network programs. So, I would think they could replace "Smash" with old "Matlock" reruns and not do any worse. And it would be far cheaper.

Wasn't SMASH originally pitched to Showtime or HBO? Maybe it should have been picked up by one of them?

Updated On: 3/6/13 at 01:18 PM

Trixigold, sadly, Matlock aired on NBC when it was on the air. So to have it air on ABC, legally, could not happen. They should not have pre-empted anything, as it does not make sense.

In season 1, as much as people disliked Julia's husband and son, it was an angle to get people to watch the show as a human interest story. This season lacks much screen time for the human side of the characters and too much time on backstage machinations. The backstage stuff is ridiculously unrealistic, even for people who would be interested in watching it for that angle. It has too many shows within the show and confusing subplots. I'm not sure who this season's show is designed to appeal to. I think anyone tuning in for the first time would be both confused and completely bored. I find it more boring this season and have a hard time watching it.

To be fair, that New Normal never actually aired on NBC. It was preempted because of Sandy and they showed it on Hulu, but not on the network itself.