Smash

Win and Go Home

By Sara Brady | Aired on 05.26.2013

The Tonys - Ivy, Karen and Jimmy walk out of their respective theaters singing "Under Pressure." Ana joins them, then Tom pipes up doing the Freddie falsetto parts, with Julia joining in. Eileen takes the last verse and then Derek joins in...

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2-17 Weecap	Win and Go Home The Tonys - It's eleven o'clock, Smashers and Smashettes. Time to say good-bye.	05.26.2013	B+	Sara Brady
Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
2-16 Weecap	What Goes Around The Nominations - Tony nominations come out, Tom tries to seduce a butch closeted movie star and Ivy frets about the Dervy spawn.	05.26.2013 05.27.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-15 Weecap	Please Silence Your Cell Phones, Heathens The Transfer - Hit List moves to Broadway, Tom and Julia break up for good, and everyone freaks out about the Tonys.	05.11.2013 05.13.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-24 Weecap	Memento Morbid The Phenomenon - Kyle is dead. Everyone is sad. But not so sad that they'll put aside their penchants for petty bitchiness.	05.04.2013 05.06.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-13 Weecap	Deus ex Maxima The Producers - Derek brings a bunch of high-powered producers downtown to see Hit List, hoping they will want to bring it to Broadway and make him a fancy man again. But after Jimmy does the show high, the producers all pass and Derek fires Jimmy. And then Kyle gets Mrs. Landinghammed.	04.28.2013 04.29.2013	C+	Sara Brady
2-12 Weecap	Hey, Jealousy Opening Night - Bombshell opens, and Ivy is marvelous. And so, so sparkly.	04.20.2013 04.22.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-11 Weecap	For the Breast of My Life The Dress Rehearsal - Derek gives one of Karen's songs to Ana, so Karen throws a hissy fit because she is a miserable brat. After their run-throughs, Hit List and Bombshell finally collide when Richard Francis calls Eileen's show the past and Jimmy and Kyle's the future of Broadway. And Ivy shows the world her boobs.	04.13.2013 04.15.2013	B-	Sara Brady
2-10 Weecap	Maybe This Time? The Surprise Party - It's Ivy's birthday, and her present is LIZA MINNELLI. Downtown, Derek finds out Karen and Jimmy are banging, and throws a hissy fit. Which is nothing compared to the hissy Jimmy's going to throw when he finds out Julia helped Kyle rewrite Hit List.	04.06.2013 04.08.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-9 Weecap	Why Is It Always All About My Mother? The Parents - Karen's dad visits and almost catches her nailing Jimmy, but in way more important news, Bernadette Peters is back AND SHE SINGS. It's great.	04.02.2013 04.03.2013	B-	Sara Brady
2-8 Weecap	Everybody Says I Hate You The Bells & Whistles - Tom struggles as a director because he wants to be everybody's friend, while Derek clashes with Jimmy because he doesn't care if everyone hates him. Eventually they find the middle path, and Sam comes back! And sings a glorious song!	03.26.2013 03.27.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-7 Weecap	Contract High Musical Chairs - It's all contracts all the time on NBC's nonstop legit thrill ride! No, really. Half of this episode is about contract negotiations. The other half is about Sean Hayes falling on his face, so we kind of break even.	03.19.2013 03.20.2013	B	Sara Brady
2-6 Weecap	Bomb Threats The Fringe - Everything is terrible: the first performance of Hit List at the Winter Fringe because Karen has to drop out after Jerry makes her choose between the two shows, the press preview of Liaisons! because Terry is an insane clown, and the current incarnation of Bombshell, because Jerry is a vulgarian. But everything is okay because Jesse L. Martin is here and god willing he will sing to us.	03.12.2013 03.13.2013	C+	Sara Brady
2-5 Weecap	The Substance of Getting Fired The Read-Through - It's read-through day for both Hit List and the new version of Bombshell. The good news is that everyone loves Julia's new book — everyone except Jerry, who thinks it isn't commercial enough. The bad news is that Kyle's book for Hit List is grade-A garbage, so he cries forever.	03.05.2013 03.06.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-4 Weecap	Let Go Already The Song - Ronnie's concert was supposed to be her chance to change her image, but her momager tells her not to rock the boat. Ultimately, Ronnie trusts Derek and sings a new song Kyle and Jimmy wrote. In the meantime, Julia and Peter spar over her writing.	02.26.2013 02.27.2013	C	Sara Brady
2-3 Weecap	The Fixer The Dramaturg - Eileen's solution for Julia's terrible book for Bombshell is to bring in a script doctor, in the person of the delicious Mr. Daniel Sunjata. He makes everything 500 times hotter and sassier by repeatedly telling Julia she's wrong and boring and I vote we keep him forever. In Greenpoint, Jimmy and Kyle squabble in their squalid apartment until Karen finally drags Derek across the river to listen to their grubby little songs.	02.19.2013 02.20.2013	B	Sara Brady
2-2 Weecap	What Doesn't Kill You The Fallout - Bombshell is frozen by the feds and Derek's being drawn and quartered in the press because he's a sleaze, so Eileen tries to resurrect the show's good word-of-mouth with an impromptu performance in front of the entire American Theatre Wing. Amazingly, this doesn't get them laughed out of town. Also, Karen goes to Brooklyn and survives.	02.05.2013 02.06.2013	B	Sara Brady
2-1 Weecap	I Won't Quit Till I'm a Star On Broadway - We're back! The guy from Gossip Girl is in charge! He's jettisoned Ellis, Shrek, Dull Leo and Julia's scarves, but he hasn't thrown Karen to the lions at the Bronx Zoo, so it's kind of a wash. At least the guy from Newsies is here for us to ogle.	02.05.2013 02.06.2013	C	Sara Brady
1-15 Weecap	Maybe This Time Bombshell - Derek picks Karen to play Marilyn, which sends Ivy into a tailspin of possibly suicidal despair, so she tells Karen how she slept with Dev and the whole show teeters on the verge of disaster. But then Karen sings the hell out of that eleven o'clock number, and everything wraps up beautifully — except we all still wonder how much better Ivy would've done it. But at least Ellis gets fired. HOORAY!	05.14.2012 05.16.2012	B+	Sara Brady
1-14 Weecap	Prelude to a Flop Previews - The show's first preview goes up and it's more Bomb than Shell, which prods Tom and Julia to rewrite the end of the show, while Dev and Ivy flail about in the aftermath of their shameful drunken banging and someone poisons Rebecca with peanuts. Could it be… Jimmy Carter?!	05.07.2012 05.08.2012	B	Sara Brady
1-13 Weecap	Technical Difficulties Tech - As the show moves to Boston to prepare for previews, Dev cheats on Karen, Derek cheats on Ivy, Julia continues to moan about how she cheated on Shrek, and the show misplaces its Joe DiMaggio. And Tom and Sam continue to have the only functional relationship on this show.	04.30.2012 05.01.2012	C	Sara Brady
1-12 Weecap	Public Enemies Publicity - Rebecca Duvall decides to make Karen her BFF this week, which makes Ivy and Dev mad with jealousy. So Dev sings a not at all culturally insensitive Bollywood number, which reminds us to be careful what we wish for. But at least Ellis gets demoted to Chief Smoothie Maker.	04.23.2012 04.24.2012	B	Sara Brady
1-11 Weecap	Rebecca Duvall Superstar The Movie Star - When movie star Rebecca Duvall joins the company, everything improves, until we learn that the would-be star of this Broadway musical can't, um, sing. Although she has IDEAS, so that's going to make everyone happy.	04.16.2012 04.17.2012	B-	Sara Brady
1-10 Weecap	Waiting in the Wings Understudy - As the company waits for movie star Rebecca Duvall to join them, everyone's relationships go straight to hell. And praise Sondheim, Ellis spends almost the whole show off somewhere that isn't here!	04.09.2012 04.10.2012	B	Sara Brady
1-9 Weecap	Hell-Bent Fer Ivy Hell on Earth - Actors, producers and writers alike are spinning out of control as the Marilyn musical's future seems in doubt. And Tom's hot boyfriend is a secret Republican!	04.02.2012 04.04.2012	C	Sara Brady
1-8 Weecap	Who Was That Masked Man? The Coup - This whole damned episode revolved around Ellis and we're subjected to Ryan Tedder. Could this get any worse?	03.26.2012 03.27.2012	C	Angel Cohn
1-7 Weecap	The One Where Bernadette Peters Shows Up The Workshop - Ivy's nightmare of a mother shows up and it's finally timed for that damned workshop we've been hearing so much about.	03.19.2012 03.20.2012	B	Angel Cohn
1-6 Weecap	Drinks in the Dark at the End of My Rope Chemistry - Much like a tantrum-throwing Broadway diva, Smash starts acting out in all sorts of unpleasant ways. Ivy gets sick and hallucinates, Karen wows on the bar mitzvah circuit, Eileen discovers a land called Brooklyn and Julia trembles her way through a night of repellent sex with Michael.	03.12.2012 03.13.2012	C-	Joe R
1-5 Weecap	Anything Goes Let's Be Bad - With bad behavior running rampant, apparently all bets are off. Good sex, bad sex, ill-advised public kissing, a shocking admission of homosexuality among sports fans and one hell of a musical number are in store.	03.05.2012 03.06.2012	C+	Joe R
1-4 Weecap	Own Us, Jonas! The Cost of Art - Eileen is having trouble raising money because the priceless Degas hanging in her office proves unsellable. I KNOW! So she ends up trying to get guest star Nick Jonas to invest. Meanwhile, Karen gets a much needed makeover, chorus-girl intervention, and friends.	02.27.2012 02.28.2012	B	Joe R
1-3 Weecap	The Outer Limits Enter Mr. DiMaggio - While the show introduces more and more far-fetched concepts, the Joe DiMaggio role gets cast, Ellis gets ammunition against Julia, and Eileen still has yet to order a Manhattan that doesn't get thrown in her ex-husband's face.	02.19.2012 02.21.2012	B	Joe R
1-2 Weecap	Very Marilyn Callbacks - It's time to choose a Marilyn -- yes, already! -- so Karen works round the clock to learn choreography for a callback number, while Ivy does all that AND sleeps with the director. Some people just work harder.	02.13.2012 02.14.2012	A+	Joe R
1-1 Weecap	After Much Consideration, We Will Let You Be Our Star Pilot - Welcome to Smash. Bitches be singin'.	02.06.2012 02.07.2012	B+	Joe R