Last night on 30 Rock, Liz’s boyfriend Criss accused her of wanting to bail on their relationship. She said, “I *never *bail–I’m still watching Smash!”
I just found out the daughter of one of my clients is one of the writers on the show. Any message I should convey?
More naked male dancers, preferably in an orgy with Christian Borle. And less GLEE soap opera silliness; the notion of a GLEE for adults is a good one, so go to there. And Julia needs to find herself so have her go on a 3 year medical mission to Cambodia with her family and replace here with a new writer who is vaguely interesting. (Perhaps Amy Sedaris as a tanning bed addicted children’s book author who wants to write aboujt Marilyn and is willing to invest $2 million to do so.)
Announced: Dev and Ellis will not be returning next year.
Dangit! I may be the only one, but I like both of them. BTW, your link also lists a couple more cast departures for anyone that wants to know.
That is great news! Dev was boring, and Ellis was too much of a cartoonish scheming villain. Ellis’s whole arc was just really stupid.
Stupid, but entertaining. Well, other than the pretense that he was straight. I’ll miss Ellis.
Dev, meh.
Since both her husband and her lover are gone, per your link, things may look up. They’re not going to get rid of her, she’s one of the only household names in the cast.
They’re getting rid of her husband, but not her son? The husband was not the problem.
As far as things they should do next season - stories about making the musical tended to be pretty ok, stories about their personal lives were not as good. They should stick with their strengths.
There’s a difference between naive and stupid, one of those is interesting to watch the other is infuriating.
We can see the performances - if someone’s performance is mindblowingly awesome, we can see that, we’ll be able to judge it for ourselves. We do not need reaction shots of everyone around being stunned by how amazing the performance was, if it was that cool, we’ll know because we’ll be thinking the same thing ourselves. If the reaction shots are over the top and the performance wasn’t, we’ll think less of the reactors, the performers, and the people who wrote the script. (This works in reverse as well - if the performance was fine but the characters respond as though it’s awful, it doesn’t work for the audience either). TLDR, cut the in character reactions to the performances.
The link mentions it will be a mid-season start, which I believe means January or so?
Not sorry to see any of those guys go - I mean, not that they were necessarily bad actors, but the characters were just boring or annoying or both. Hopefully Grace sans Will’s son will also disappear.
I am still wondering how they can do another season with this same show - I mean, taking it to Broadway could kill a couple of episodes, but once it opens and the reviews come in, what is left besides catfights in the dressing rooms (been there done that already) or are they going to start getting all soap-opera-ish again?
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I am still wondering how they can do another season with this same show - I mean, taking it to Broadway could kill a couple of episodes, but once it opens and the reviews come in, what is left besides catfights in the dressing rooms (been there done that already) or are they going to start getting all soap-opera-ish again?
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Maybe across town there’s another musical in formation based on JFK and RFK and their producers are going to have a disastrous relationship with the producers of Marilyn.