And so Smash ends as it lived—with a weirdly self-referential musical number and a Tony Awards ceremony with all the…
Reviews - Smash
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Oh, Smash, poor Smash. NBC’s canceled you forever, and I’m feelin’ so sad.
F
From the start, Smash has been an exercise in reducing expectations. The pilot was good, but it wasn’t as good as it…
C+
Oh my God, they’re pulling a Rent.
C
The opening of Bombshell is the moment Smash has been building to throughout its entire run. It was the show that…
B
Let’s just get this out of the way first. Jimmy’s someone who a.) changed his identity under shady circumstances to…
C
My wife’s birthday is on Wednesday, and a couple of days ago, she asked me what I was going to do for said occasion.…
C-
Since this will be my last Smash review, I went ahead and plowed through the rest of Garson Kanin’s Smash: A Novel,…
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B
After last week’s reshufflings and consolidations, we’ve essentially been left with two Smashes—at least for now. In…
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C-
Let’s say you want to tell a story about a man named Carl, who has a hankering for cake. If Carl already has a cake…
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C+
God damn it, Smash. With “The Fringe,” this show comes as close as it’s been all season to being the smart, bright,…
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C
Friends, I’d hoped that spending two straight weeks watching Smash as a civilian, without having to register an…
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At the beginning of “The Song,” Jimmy Collins is sitting on a sofa flicking pennies in the direction of a small jar.…
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(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of…
Whenever a new season begins of one of the shows I cover, I re-read my reviews of the previous season, to remind…
C+
After watching the Smash season finale “Bombshell” over the weekend, I started to think about Derek Wills in a new…
B-
I was a theater person in college. I miss it, sometimes; the community, the enthusiasm, the wide-eyed, utterly…
B
My favorite moment during the “previously on” montage that kicked off this week’s Smash had to be the quick shot of…
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I need some help from my Broadway historians out there. In Smash: A Novel, the musical the characters are mounting…
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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…