What Happened- It turns out that, like most movie stars,
Rebecca Duvall isn’t Broadway material. She can’t sing. She also has plenty of
ideas and wants to make the musical have more dialogue and fewer songs. Tom and
Julia are offended, Eileen is worried, and Derek is mortified. He gets Ivy a
job in Bombshell’s chorus, just in case Rebecca doesn’t work out and Karen
turns out to still be too green by that time. Rebecca offers to take voice
lessons and manages to breathe out a decent song.
Eileen breaks reads Ellis’s report on Bartender Nick. She
meets with Nick and they talk about his past financial arrangement with
criminals. Eileen gets over this, for some reason, and they kiss again. Tom and
Sam go on a real date after Julia makes them. She is sick of watching them just
flirt. Tom is upset when he finds out that Sam isn’t as into casual sex as he
is. Sam believes in God and believes that sex is holy, so he wants to take it
slow. He calls Tom out for his intimacy issues and constant singleness. Leo is
struggling in school, so Frank and Julia have to meet in order to talk Leo into
doing his homework again.
Comments- This episode wasn’t as eventful as last week’s,
but it wasn’t a disaster either. We love Uma Thurman for being a good sport and proving that while she can still dance, she isn’t much of a singer. The
funny thing is neither was Marilyn Monroe. The breath-y, range-challenged sexy voice
actually fits the icon better. The real Marilyn couldn’t belt it like Ivy and
she didn’t have Karen’s pleasant tone either. But in order to have a good
musical, you need to have numbers that bring the house down and the voices to
carry them. With the right side characters getting all the best songs, Tom and
Julia could make this work. They’d have to scrap the best song so far though
(Let Me Be Your Star, obviously).
Once again, we weren’t thrilled by the songs this week,
even though the Rebecca Duvall one was fun to watch. We liked seeing Karen and
Ivy hang out, even if Karen ditched her at the end. We agree that Miss Iowa was
being way too touchy. We also liked seeing Derek stick up for Ivy. Ellis was
pretty lame this week, and after we defended him in our last Smash post! We
think it would be unrealistic if Julia gets Frank back. Dev needs to go. Overall, this episode was quiet and mostly pleasant. This show isn't the greatest, but we are weirdly addicted to it.
Episode grade: B-
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