"Smash" Officially Cancelled After 2 Seasons- Page 3

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:52am

Me too. I am going to miss it - even when it was terrible. It was a NY show and there are not that many of them out there. It's a lot of jobs both on screen and off that have just disappeared. Sad.

I do think that Megan Hilty, Christian Borle and Jack Davenport are the three that were best able to rise above the material when it didn't work..so I hope they have bright things in their futures. Some of the others, I don't really care if I ever see them again.

But yes..feeling sad over this, even though I knew it was coming and its probably the right decision. It's just a real loss knowing what it should have and could have been.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:12am

"Well....it's sad because this show is about Broadway and it gives an inside look on what goes on behind these Broadway productions, though it can be unrealistic at times. "

At times? I think I can count on one hand the number of times it was actually realistic.

[bryan2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:17am

I loved the music and loved the concept but
the story lines were horrible...the acting was horrible but when Meg and Kat sang it was magic...it is a shame they couldn't find good writers

[goldenboy]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 12:55pm

Smash was a guilty pleasure for me. I couldn't believe some of the unrealistic plot twists (Karen giving up a Broadway show??) and the Jennifer Hudson/ Sean Hayes ridiculous sub plots which were probably there so the new writers could find their footing after the firing of Theresa Rebeck. Still... with all it's faults... I watched it religiously every week and will miss it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 1:03pm

SMASH was my best friend. One time, SMASH walked up to this group of tourists and they were petrified because A) They were obviously lost, and B) Had probably never spoken to SMASH before in their lives ... and SMASH ... SMASH just offered to escort them out of Broadway, and then SMASH let them take a picture with SMASH and then SMASH helped them find the Circle Line.

#Don't4GetMe

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 1:48pm

What's worse is with the failure of the one show to tackle the NY theater scene, how many decades will pass before another network ever puts a version of that world onscreen again? Patently fake and melodramatic, but man, did it give us a lot to post about on these boards. With Project Runway, Rupaul's Drag Race and Smash now concluded (at least for this season), my television schedule is shot.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 1:54pm

So You Think You Can Dance begins next week!

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 1:56pm

Thanks for trying to cheer us up, dramamama. We're in mourning for our life.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:04pm

If enough of us watch it live tonight, do you think NBC will reconsider?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:09pm

It would be foolish not to try!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:12pm

I'm going to watch it live twice!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:39pm

#SOS

#SaveOurSMASH

[bwayrose7]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:50pm

Sad to hear this. For all its faults (and yes, there were many), I genuinely like this show and will miss it.

[Owen22]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:51pm

As much as we're celebrating the demise of a truly unbelievably bad show...take a moment to think...wouldn't it have been great if the show had been done with integrity? With some modicum of taste and decent writing (besides the "Bombshell" songs which were almost uniformly terrific). Wouldn't it have been fun to root for the characters triumphs instead of the creators' demises. Today is actually a sorta sad day...there was drama and soap opera to be mined from the creation of a Broadway musical. "Smash" was just in the wrong creator's hands.

Though, honestly, even a completely successful TV show set in the Broadway milieux would probably never have been a huge ratings hit anyway.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 2:54pm

^ Thankyou Owen.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 3:09pm

Yit'gadal v'yit'kadash sh'mei raba
Kyle

b'al'ma di v'ra khir'utei
Smash

First Rhoda and Joe get divorced and now this. One lifetime. So much heartache.

ETA: It appears the site can't handle Hebrew letters. There used to be a mourners kaddish up there. I'll replace it with an English transliteration. Updated On: 5/11/13 at 03:09 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 3:13pm

I love SMASH and will feel its absence when it's gone. I find all of its flaws forgiveable (except McPhee's acting and needing auto-tune) but even if all it had given the world was the "Let Me Be Your Star" duet in episode one, and Hilty's "Don't Forget Me" from the Bombshell finale, that to me would be a remarkable achievement.

[suestorm]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 3:30pm

What a shame. They blew their 2nd chance by wasting their first few episodes on jennifer "i make mcphee look like streep" hudson instead of the core characters. I mean who gave a F....

All the great network shows I liked the last 2 years have been canceled... smash , 666 park, don't trust the b in apt 23. I'm sticking to amc fx and hbo for now on. If smash was on any of them it would still be on.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 4:15pm

I loved SMASH only because Jimmy is a hot sexy piece of ass. I love that Kyle was so tortured by his love for him, and had to die in order to save him.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 4:26pm

Is Rupaul's drag race over for good??

[Kad]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 4:33pm

No; it's just in between seasons now.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:23pm

most of you snark-ers are just plain mean and nasty...finally they try and give this country some class tv and you all act as if they gave us an STD instead
...for those of who really love Broadway like myself any window into the making of a Broadway show is better than no show at all IMHO...I finally got very into this show during the second season and I for one will miss it, but I am very happy they will conclude with a finale that seems to tie loose ends up...in my mind's eye I hope when they announce the TONY for Leading Actress in a Musical, the screen goes to black just as the presenter is about to say her name...wow what an ending that would be...

[jetts7]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:27pm

This might sound crazy, but maybe if you have one than 1 TV, turn on all of them to Smash so they get more ratings and maybe reconsider canceling it.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:39pm

Are you all so desperate for Broadway to receive some attention that you are willing to accept a show that went from bland to camp bad to bad to terrible? Really?!

Class TV? Really? This show has to commandeer the Hubble to get a look at class.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:45pm

Sorry Wannabe -- I don't see how loving b'way means we have to love any representation of. Just like a show isn't good "just" because its ON b'way.

We all WANTED it to be wonderful, many of us were disappointed. That has nothing to do with our love of b'way -- at all.