Yes. :smack:
In case no one has linked yet: Smash–the abridged script: SMASH Abridged: Episode 5 - Broadway Abridged
I’m still watching, but not paying much attention to the plot. I like the singing, dancing, and pretty/sexy people.
That was more entertaining than the actual episode.
I thought that was the actual episode script.
Really, how lazy can writing be? Stevie Wonder saw the “kid looking out of the window” coming. And for somebody who’s been in NYC and a struggling actor long enough to land an apartment and some auditions and hook a hot young foreign born Deputy Mayor (I can’t imagine that would endear anybody) could Karen be any more straight off the bus and singing how she’s gonna make it? I’ll bet she still has corn shucks in her suitcase.
Though somehow they did make it through an ep without Angelica Huston tossing a drink at her ex-husband. And we learn Jack is a misogynistic philandering self absorbed asshole because he cares so much about his work… is Newt Gingrich one of the producers?
I haven’t seen this week’s yet but I understand [del]Evilla McDiva[/del] loses her voice and Karen must go on. Nobody saw that coming either. (But, yes, I’ll watch it.)
Ivy is a diva bitch on steroids!
Literally :smack:
I’ve taped all the episodes but haven’t watched any of them yet.
I’m irked that they’ve now got characters breaking into song when they’re not in rehearsal or performing.
At least they’ve moved off the Stalker plot into the No means Aw sure Why Not Date Rape plot, complete with shy grins and lyrical breakthroughs the next day.:rolleyes:
I am still thoroughly enjoying it, for all its silliness (my mother was on prednisone for 40 years, and it does not make you hallucinate American Idol contestants in your bedroom mirror).
Karen: shows up at a bar mitzvah late, unprepared, in an inappropriate dress, and texts on her phone onstage? And she is supposed to be the “heroine?”
Loved whoever was wearing the rubber Halloween Anjelica Huston mask this week.
Oh, and this week’s abridged script: SMASH Abridged: Episode 6 - Broadway Abridged
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[li]The Ivy vs. Karen has to come to a head soon or it’s just going to get tedious. Now, after Ivy hallucinates Karen-as-Marilyn and whines (AGAIN) to Derek the Evil Director, she pouts that the bar mitzvah job SHE blew off nets Karen an agent – and Karen is the one who annoys HER? Please let her get a special delivery of Iowa Knuckle Sandwich.[/li][li]This is the first week that I’ve really enjoyed Ms. Houston’s character. I had to laugh at the “Who knew you could get great martinis for seven dollars!!” (NB: Seriously?? It’s gin and a little vermouth with an olive thrown in. $7.00??) And playing the videogame…priceless)[/li][li]Julia the neurotic writer and Michael DiMaggio-Boy have no chemistry whatsoever. None. That take-your-shirt-off-and-let-me-see-you-scene did nothing for me. I’ve seen hotter love scenes in a retirement home.[/li][/ol]
Still, hoping this show goes the distance. My Hulu Plus is working well these days, so I am really looking forward to when the next episode comes up.
I’m still watching it, and mostly enjoying it. But I agree with those who have said that the characters are becoming more and more annoying: right now Derek is my favorite, because he’s the most honest and the least whiny (and the hottest).
Seconded. So much so that I wish I had multiple personality disorder just so I could third it, too.
And doesn’t know Hava Nagila. I’m a Protestant raised agnostic in Alabama and I know Hava Nagila, how can somebody going to a bar mitzvah to sing not be familiar with it?
At least it wasn’t Sanjaya.
I don’t know Hava Nagila - but I damn sure would have by the time I got to that Bar Mitzvah.
I know they’re trying to contrast Karen being naive v. Ivy’s being polished, but they’ve made her unprofessional and not “unprofessional” in the amateur sense, but unprofessional in the really damn rude sense. And they keep Mary Sue-ing her. It’s unpleasant to watch.
Derek is also my favorite, for the same exact damn reason. I just want them all to shut. the. hell. up. My Og, are these people annoying. And Karen started off okay, but as stated, her unprofessionalism is beginning to drive me batty too.
Anyway, for now I’ll keep watching, but if they don’t flesh out the characters soon to something other than ridiculous stereotypes, I’m going to give up. I really don’t like almost any if them, so I need a compelling reason to stay tuned. At this point, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about Marilyn either. This show is so frustrating!
On a related note… Debra Messing is actually seeing the guy playing DiMaggio in real life. Go figure that they still have no chemistry.
Did anyone get why song writer guy was seemingly put off by the information that the lawyer guy he’s dated a few times, only came out to his mother a year ago. Had it been established that lawyer guy told him otherwise?
Plus, I thought they had Really Bad Sex last week–they are still dating? He will wind up with Sports!Gay, mark my words.
No, but my guess is that delaying coming out to your parents for so long – both characters are in their early 30s, right? – can sometimes mean that you’re self-hating (or were) and/or have serious family issues. Not necessarily an “OMG we must stop seeing each other RIGHT NOW” thing, but I can see it being a red flag.
Yeah, the writers pretty much told us so.
But didn’t he also said that he came out to his mother several time previously ? To me it sounded like the problem is the mother (either not listening or denying truths not to her liking).
Plus the fact that his mother arranged the date for him would indicate whenever he told her she’s okay with it so he’s really not that bogged down in family quagmire.
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The nice thing about this show is it doesn’t take a whole lot of investment. I basically listen to it on Hulu while surfing the net and alt-tab if something sounds like visual is needed, but generally their take on Chekhov’s Gun is less ‘there’s a gun on the stage, which means it might be fired later on’ than it’s AND GRACE saying “Oh, look, a loaded gun… I think I’ll shoot that in next week’s episode”.
Unrelated to the above, but does anybody else think Christian Borle is cute as a button? I do, which is odd, because neither his face nor his body are much in and of themselves.