Of course, the sheets magically cover all nipples and cracks, but that's the only thing that distinguishes the Smash sex scenes from Sex and the City (except for SJP's scenes where she kept her bra on throughout all sexual activity. Big was apparently not into boobs).
Of course, Ivy Lynn will eventually loose the part to Kathrine McPhee's Karen Cartwright (has there ever been a more American name? They might have well named her Baseball Chevrolet). Ivy can't be allowed to screw the director and keep her starring role. Don't blame me, I don't make the rules of soap opera. Her adorable best gay dancer friend Dennis (super-cute Phillip Spaeth) had a first date with songwriter Tom (Ex Mr. Sutton Foster Christian Borle) and just happened to mention that Ivy and Derek were doing it in the dressing room of Heaven and Earth. Broadway veteran Tom is shocked,shocked, shocked and has already told Julia (Debra Messing). Ivy's fall is in the works.
Will Dennis and Tom have a hot hump session or do only the straights get action on Broadway?
Angelica Houston is a master of hurling Manhattans into men's faces, but she's done it 3 or 4 times now. We get it. Joke's over.
There's a hot new star who's been cast as Joe DiMaggio opposite Marilyn and, typical of musical theater, he's a straight, married father who lives in a spacious Manhattan apartment that's bigger than my house. All these straight theater types must marry rich girls.
Finally, I really don't buy cute assistant Ellis (Jaime Cepero) as a straight. I have no idea of Jaime is gay or straight in real life, but come on, Ellis is an assistant to a Broadway songwriter. In this episode, he had an incredibly awkward bedroom scene with his hot girlfriend and I really wanted to laugh. Maybe it was his clingy black tank top barely covering his perfect, zero body fat, gym-toned body that made me think this guy ain't into the ladies.
That's it. It's Friday night! Time to get Smashed.
4 comments:
The sex scene, I thought the same thing. I love to see Miss Angelica toss the booze but it is time to move on to other cliches. I would like to see a little more dancing and singing, less talk.
This show just is not cutting it for me. I keep watching, though each week I thinkg "I'm done." It's not bad...but it's just not compelling for me.
I blame the writing. Sometimes I sit there and think, "Hell, I could write a better script than this!" And I never think that...even when watching so-so shows.
Also, I find the acting only so-so.
** Director...don't like that character, which is cliche times three.
** Angelica...not loving it.
** Debra...Meryl Streep she's not.
** Christian Borle...adequate. I found it hard to believe that that Hot Chorus Boy would ask CB out on a date. Really? Was it because Hot Chorus Boy really has the hots for CB or, more likely, that CB is a famous Broadway writer?
** The Assistant...straight? I giggled and smirked. Oh, yeah, I'm buying that. That boy is as straight as John Wayne was gay.
** Katharine McPhee...if Wonder Bread could sing, this is what it would sound like.
** Megan Hilty...the only one on the entire show that I think is a True Star. If she somehow loses Marilyn to chorus girl Karen Carpenter (what a Wonder Bread name?!), I will be DONE forever!
Thus spaketh Miss B. from on high (i.e., couch).
P.S. I meant to type Karen Cartwright vs. Carpenter. But I also wanted to add that I thought Karen's giving her pregnant hometown best friend a teddy bear the size of a linebacker was just idiotic. Again, what scriptwriter would think that is realistic? Sam, please promise me you will never give me such a ridiculous, impractical gift.
Doug, since it's not your birthday, I'll return to life-size teddy bear.
"If Wonder Bread could sing, this is what it would sound like" is the best line I've heard in a while.
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