Our long national nightmare is over. “Smash” is cancelled.
In other news, the sun rises in the east. 
So are Go On and The New Normal. 
Yep, here is the Hollywood Reporter article.
I consider it bad news, good news and good news.
Bad news - the show has been dead in the water but this is confirmation.
Good news - they have put this show out of its misery.
Good news - they claim the last episode was written as the series finale, so there shouldn’t be any unnecessary cliffhanger(s).
My prediction?
At the very end, they do a series of photos and let you know what happens to each of the characters in the future.
Julia - moves to LA and writes for General Hospital for 3 months, causing that soap to be canceled. She then starts breeding cats and selling them from her home.
Tom - follows Julia to LA and writes jingles for TV ads and eventually marries Andy Dick and the two of them become the first huge Gay Celebrity divorce case, with rumors of bizarre S&M parties and owning a brothel of drag queens in West Hollywood.
Karen - goes on The Voice and is second place. She then tries out for America’s Got Talent and gets second place.
Ivy - goes on The Voice the same season, and wins. Ditto for America’s Got Talent.
Eileen - goes on to produce Schindler’s List - The Musical, which becomes the biggest, most expensive flop in the history of Broadway and she retires to Michigan and moves in with Elaine Stritch, starting rumors of a long-term Lesbian relationship.
Derek - as director of Schindler’s List - The Musical - he then can only find work directing children’s theater in Mississippi.
Jimmy - is caught trying to smuggle drugs out of Turkey and spends 40 years in a Turkish prison before being released. Two weeks later, he is arrested working in a meth lab in Mississippi - connections to Derek can never be proven.
The cast of Glee are hired to do Bombshell - The Movie. It is a huge success.
Unfortunately for Tom and Julia and Eileen, they sold the rights for $200 to cover legal fees after it closed.
If only it could be this good.
Of course Ivy’s pregnant!
That commercial within the show was the worst product placement ever!
What a great idea for Hit List - instant messaging on phones.
Gee, what could possibly be better than to spend over $100 for a ticket and then have an entire audience constantly checking their cell phones for messages! Maybe they could post the lyrics to the songs on Facebook, with a bouncing ball, and everyone can sing along! Ah yes, technology and art…always a perfect match.
BTW, there is nothing odd whatsoever with an entire audience of nothing but 20-somethings in a Broadway musical audience, because as we all know, 20-somethings all have unlimited funds to buy full price tickets for Broadway shows.
Let’s see…this is a soap opera, so if newly pregnant Ivy goes anywhere near a staircase, you know what that means! Oopsy doodle!
Which she knows because her doctor’s office called her at 10:00 p.m. to tell her over the phone and just assume it was good news.
Right?
“Ivy’s just started her first lead role in a big Broadway musical. I’m sure she’ll be thrilled to find out she’s pregnant!”
If “worst” means “most obvious”, then you missed the one (also for a Ford Fusion) on New Girl, and the ones (again, for Fords - Mustangs, I think) on Alcatraz.
Must…buy…Ford…Fusion…oh wait, I already own one (a 2010 Hybrid)
Cell phone calls in the middle of a show? After they’ve told you to turn off your cell phone? That makes less sense than the brilliant idea for “Bombshell” a few episodes back when they put cast members in the audience at intermission. Have these writers ever been even near a live theater show before?
Well, they also told the audience to feel free to record and upload, cause no point in protecting anybody’s intellectual property.
I guess they give away snacks and drinks as well, and at the end of the night the coat check lady tips you.
A good analysis of where the show went wrong in the NYT – should we tell him that a half dozen of the other 36 “fans” (masochists?) all hang out at the SDMB?
By all means, send that dude an email and let him read this thread!
We most certainly would fit into the “Smashochists” realm.
Perhaps we should gather a bunch of pictures of us all throwing a martini at the TV screen as the final credits roll on the series finale.
I just remembered – the finale is tonight. Our long national nightmare is about to be over.
Dare I hope the whiny brat will meet some gruesome fate?
Wouldn’t it be great if the writers said “Screw it–let’s kill them all!”?
Won’t happen, though. (except in my dreams)
There IS at least one possibility for a major death. Doesn’t “the Diva” shoot and kill Karen’s character in Hit List? Maybe tonight it’ll be a real gun instead of a prop… :dubious: 
Fun end to a good show. Tied up the plotlines, gave a few good numbers, and happy ends for all.
Except for Julia. Homewrecking whore she is.
Liked everything else.
I’ll miss the show.
I thought it was hilarious that they ended it with a song saying “Give them a big finish, and they’ll forget what came before” as if to acknowledge that it really sort of stunk up the place this season.
I’m sad to see it go, though. It was so good in concept and talent — it just got waylaid somewhere (many places) along the way.
Eh, I thought that they had established that Michael’s wife had taken the kids and left him, and Frank had left her. If that’s the case, they’re both free to pursue their twoo wuv.
Speaking of which – no Jesse L. Martin in the “Under Pressure” number. 