EPISODE
SEASON
Smash - Season 1
Starring Debra Messing, Jack Davenport and Katharine McPhee, the series follows a group of theater enthusiasts in their attempt to bring to Broadway a new 'smash' musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe titled Bombshell.
23 October 1982, New Jersey, USA
8 July 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
21 October 1987, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
9 May 1986, New York City, New York, USA
7 April 1986, McKinney, Texas, USA
31 May 1990, Libertyville, Illinois, USA
30 April 1983
February 06, 2012
Smash does a very good job of establishing the world these characters inhabit and their distinctive roles in getting this musical off the ground, and, in the process, investing you in their stories and struggles.
February 06, 2012
There's no letdown in any of the pacing, dialogue or overall mature, intelligent way Smash approaches a universe that no other series has ever dared touch.
February 06, 2012
Smash will strike you as almost unbearably tedious and pretentious.
February 06, 2012
Smash is to Glee as Broadway is to community theatre. You can enjoy the latter and have a blast seeing it, but it's not the same as a production like this one that really hums on every professional level.
February 06, 2012
Unfortunately, none of that interesting struggle (for success in the Big Apple.) can be found in Smash - NBC's pabulum take on The Great White Way.
February 06, 2012
It's a quality show for sure, but at least initially, it lacks the magnetism of the Hollywood icon it pays homage to.
February 06, 2012
When you get right down to it, Smash is not a single TV show, but two. And one of them has got to go.
February 06, 2012
I would gladly pay $75 for an orchestra seat to see the show-within-a-show. The way things are going, I would pay $100 if the purchase exempted me from having to watch any more of the show itself.
September 16, 2013
The trouble with Smash isn't the razzle-dazzle, then, it's the nuts and bolts.
February 06, 2012
As long as it's well sung, there's always room for the lullabye of Broadway.