While the Karen and the ensemble were boozing it up and dancing at a bar (do Broadway performers routinely drink and party during rehearsals? Just wondering.), everybody else went to a party at Nick Jonas' gigantic loft. Eileen (Anjelica Houston) tried to sell Nick her Degas drawing that her husband bought years ago. She mooned over it the entire episode saying "I'm looking at past happiness" over and over again. She and her husband are totally going to have some sort of reconciliation. Anyway, she needs $200,000.00 and the Degas is worth just about that. She gets the bucks from Nick who I guess is now a partner.
Ivy gets upset that Derek plays grab ass with a towering super model and he tells her the laughable lie that he was just trying to get the Amazon to invest in the show. Ivy buys it because the diva bitch has reverted to insecure girl. She says "I just want to feel safe" and Derek barks "then go back to the chorus. There's nothing safe about being a star!" Then he takes her upstairs for pity sex. Clearly, their days as a couple are numbered.
Tom (Christian Borle) has been set up on a date by his mother. We could all use mothers like this because the guy looks like a GQ model and he's all googly eyes for Tom. Tom must be hung like a horse because the hottest men in New York flock to him.
I could predict everything that will happen next week, but I'm getting kind of bored with it.
Editor's Note: I love Downton Abbey and didn't mean to imply otherwise. DA is a far superior show to Smash, however, this season, several characters acted in uncharacteristic ways. I'm referring Lady Edith who making out with a farmer and Cousin Isobel becoming insufferable.
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Thank you Sam for your Smashcaps because I can't bring myself to watch it anymore. With 4 eps of Southland in my DVR, it's all about setting priorities.
BORED?? I find this show to be just a standard formula plot. I am not seeing anything new or unique. This should be the gritty hard Broadway road to success. But it is looking more like the Little Rascals are going to put on a show, with sex on the side. TOO PREDICTABLE.
And thank you Junior for the term "Smashcaps."
Sam,
Sorry, I can't watch this show, too predictable. I got thrown off by the title "Downtown Abby" which to me is how a series should be. I saw the first season on DVD last year and I LOVED IT! I am anxiously awaiting this year's show on DVD. I find most (maybe all) American produced TV shows very boring and predictable. I like shows that have excellent actors in all the roles, big and small (American TV and movies tend to only have the Star and maybe a supporting actor good lest they be over shown by a great actor in a minor role.) I've talked too much. I love Downtown Abbey!
This show is the biggest disappointment to come down the TV pike in ages. Spielberg! Broadway! An all-star cast! And THIS is all the better they can muster? Pitiful.
I begin placing the blame with the scriptwriter. Kids in a local junior college screenplay course could do better than this.
The acting...not so much.
As for Christian Borle and the bevy of GQ models...as I texted the other night: What alternate gay universe is this show set? I can't see this show lasting more than a half-season.
P.S. I do give "Smash" kudos for casting that Dev character. My eyeballs get a hard-on every time he appears. Scrumptious! And that British accent...talk to me, Dev!
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