Smash - Season 1

After watching the Smash season finale “Bombshell” over the weekend, I started to think about Derek Wills in a new…

I was a theater person in college. I miss it, sometimes; the community, the enthusiasm, the wide-eyed, utterly…

My favorite moment during the “previously on” montage that kicked off this week’s Smash had to be the quick shot of…

I need some help from my Broadway historians out there. In Smash: A Novel, the musical the characters are mounting…

Smash, if you’ve got a moment, I’d like to pull you aside for a pow-wow. I know you’ve heard me give these notes…

Forget Ivy, forget Karen, and maybe even forget Rebecca Duvall, even though the brief glimpse of Uma Thurman we got…

In my relentless pursuit of pop culture k-nowledge (that “k” is not silent), I recently scoured the used-book…

As I’m sure most of you read this past week, NBC has decided to renew Smash for a second season, but has decided not…

I spent some time over the weekend considering the possibility that the reason Smash hasn’t lived up to its…

So apparently it’s not enough that the Smash characters talk constantly about how awesome their friends and…

The division between what’s good about Smash and what’s incredibly irritating seemed more pronounced than usual this…

After last week’s episode, I get the feeling that a lot  of you would prefer that I just tee off on Smash each week,…

A lot of my critic pals have already watched the four Smash episodes that NBC sent out via screener DVD—something I…

TV Club contributor and all-around good dude Myles McNutt wrote a thoughtful piece about Smash on his blog Cultural…

This TV season, we’ve got so many writers who’ve seen these pilots that we thought getting two takes on each show…