http://Pomoscorzo/ ([identity profile] pomoscorzo) wrote in [personal profile] thegirl20 2016-02-11 12:20 pm (UTC)

My 2 cents...

I like your review but I can’t quite agree. I think Ivy and Karen represent two different aspects of Marilyn Monroe - Ivy is the real-life-woman who will do anything to get a part, from hard work to taking too many pills to sleeping with the director; Karen is the sensitive, romantic countrified nobody who, in the end, lands an unexpected success.
Ivy never struck me as the serie’s “villain”. If there is a villain, it is the egocentric, reckless Derek. Also I would count in Ellis, who is ready to do anything to become a producer.
The trouble with “Smash” is that it doesn’t know what it wants to be: a serious drama based upon events backstage during the development of a new production, a soap opera, or simply a vehicle for a lot of new songs (many of which, to be honest, are stunning).
At the beginning the character design and their development and dynamics, with the exception of Ivy and Karen, are flat and almost uninteresting; after a while it gets better; and then they didn’t know how to call it quits. The producers probably found the series did have more success than expected (or more than at the beginning) and that the songs were rapidly getting famous and selling well, so they got on with another season.
They shouldn’t have, in my opinion. Season One could have had such a fulfilling ending with 1) Karen getting the part but having her love life in pieces (although honestly, I think she’s better off without that weakling Dev, who has the nerve to sleep with a strange woman while he still has Karen’s engagement ring in his pocket); 2) Ivy not getting the part but finding a fulfilling relationship with Derek (he really seemed to care, but then he had to shag Rebecca after all - bleah); 3) Tom finding his counterpart in Sam; 4) Julia making up with her husband. The series never knew where its focus was to be, it wanted too much and wound up ruining a story that could have been so beautiful and intense instead of the mess it turned out to be.

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