NBC's SMASH, Season 2 -- Discussion — Page 32

I loved tonight's episode. It's finally becoming dramatic in what it was originally intended to be.....about creating a show instead of what it was (adoption, affairs, peanut poisoning, etc.). Is all of it realistic? No...hence it being a work of fiction....but, it's going in the right direction IMHO.

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Really hope more people give the show a chance, whether or not we're already a few episodes in... I don't want it to be one of those shows that gets canceled and has the remaining filmed episodes posted on Hulu or NBC.com or something.

I wonder if they cut the budget somehow if maybe a third season would be possible. or maybe we could see a third season on BRAVO with a major budget cut. I'm looking for something here that could give us a third season. anything.

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spiderdj82- exactly it is now about Broadway and not all that other personal drama. I don't expect it to be totally realistic and just want to be entertained with good music and storyline about getting show on Broadway.

I just worry that Tom Collins running the Manhattan Theater Workshop portends some type of foreshadowing. But whatever could it beeeee?

I enjoyed the hell out of the episode too. I loved that Derek's dream version of the final number was ever so Lurhmann's La Boheme (OMG MORE FORESHADOWING!). I loved the Sean Hayes and crying Hilty on the staircase. "Allergies? Migraine?"

And big kudos to Veanne for the perfect Urban Cowboy line read.

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Updated On: 3/12/13 at 11:22 PM

I'm glad we are finally getting somewhere close to a good show plot-wise. I think if they reorchestrate the schedule that it comes out of The Voice, this show may see a third season

It will probably be on Hulu, BorstalBoy.

I thought Derek imagined a very strange wig for Karen in his fantasy. It was worse than Salome's on True Blood, and that was a bad wig.

I really enjoyed the hell out of Megan Hilty's number. It was nice to hear head voice, because I feel like she does so much belting on this. I don't really know the mechanics of music so I hope what I just said made sense. At any rate, it was a part of her voice I feel like we don't hear that often. And that number was so cute, you just see why it got Madeline Kahn a Tony nomination!

Maybe it's all his swagger, but Tom has never looked sexier. And I think he's sexy in the first place.

Why do the Smash cameras hate Jeremy Jordan's face? He always looks so weird on this and they always show that commercial where he looks so cute.

Updated On: 3/12/13 at 11:33 PM

I just listened to Hilty's album, seriously its pretty great. Get it if you can. It's a great break up album.

Updated On: 3/13/13 at 12:03 AM

Are you kidding? This episode was the WORST.

Apparently, in Smash-land, the director is superfluous. A small Fringe production doesn't need one! A star-driven revival would actually have a professional "yes-man" director catering to the backseat directorial whims of said star. And a major Broadway show would think it brilliant to replace a proven, Tony winning director with the show's never-before-directed composer and people would actually think this a "savior" idea.

If I was a director I'd be filing with my guild to sue "Smash" for defamation.

Updated On: 3/13/13 at 12:19 AM

Agree, and a well deserved one at that.

I'm embarrassed that I didn't know Salome had a wig

Sean Hayes isn't really working for me (yeah, this is Smash, and maybe I'm used to characters who are fairly caricatured from the start--with his character I can't tell if he's meant to be just cluless, or severely egotistical, or? I mean to go from wanting Hilty's song cut to moments later agreeing to have it in and wanting to hear how awful he is...) But I did love Hilty's number.

I thought it was the most entertaining show this season. Sure, aspects of the show are perhaps even more unrealistic now--but if they at least keep moving the plot along and adding some tension, meh, I can live with that, I guess.

The Hit List set was very Moulin Rouge/La Boheme and McPhee's wig was horrible. But it was Derek's vision (I imagine) and Iguess that's how he likes his women.

Seemed odd to have Jerry proud to have worked on She Loves Me's revival--didn't it lose money? Hasn't She Loves Me always lost money? Isn't that meant to be the one thing Jerry's shows in Smashland don't do? *shrug*

When I read that Jeremy Jordan was singing a song called This Will Be Our Year I thought it would be another new song, or another cover of a song I just didn't know (like last week's Death Cab for Cutie song)--so I admit I was a bit floored when it was one of my fave 60s songs, a fairly obscure track (that was never a single and only icnluded on some releases after they broke up) by The Zombies.

I know they claimed the cover songs this year would be more creative choices, or something, but if the point of still having one an episode is to sell songs on iTunes, a 60s song by a band most remember as having 2 1/2 hits, if they remember them at all, is kinda odd. (But they're my fave British Invasion badn, so I guess I can't complain--even if Jordan doesn't have Colin Blunstone's voice :P )


Oh and as for Tom's slightly more upbeat version of Marilyn's song--I know I'm overthinking this, but where the heck in the show is it meant to go now? Marilyn comes back from her death scene to offer a lesson to audiences about surviving despite your bad love life?
Zombies - This Will Be Our Year