What a disappointment.
It seem like the writers are trying to show the good and the bad, the conniving and the genuine, the shallow and the brilliant. The problem being that it winds up as one huge dramatic mess. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong because so many different personality types are battling each other. Reality check: Not every play is backed by someone who can't pay for it. Not every writer has a conniving little bitch for an assistant. Not every other writer is going to have family issues because they're trying to adopt and feeling an attraction to some one to whom they are not married. Not every writer and director are THAT terrible to each other. Also, when they are, they tend to be quiet about it so as not to garner bad press. The whole "casting couch" thing, I have no comment on. It's not something that people talk about.
Basically, while all of these things can happen, to have it all happen at once is utterly ridiculous. You cannot have a successful show if absolutely nobody behind it has their shit together. In an attempt to interest audiences they have injected more drama than is even close to necessary and sped up the time line beyond reality. Plays get workshopped for years and many times the workshop actors and director(s) don't make it to the stage with the show. Also, this wasn't implied but I thought I'd make a pre-emptive correction, it is very difficult to get a show a world debut on Broadway. They are 'tried out' at smaller theaters. I have done intern work at two that were debuting a new play in the hope that it would be seen and picked up by Big Apple big shots.
I'm not saying that Smash will flop. The actors are great, and the individual characters are cleverly written. I'm just saying that I will not be watching it.
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