Smash
This episode mostly centered around Jennifer Hudson’s character Veronica Moore and her one-woman show. Last episode, she’d discussed having Derek direct or help her put together this kind of show to change her good girl image, and this episode, everything comes together. Sort of.
Derek pushes her to sex things up a bit, making her extremely uncomfortable, but after she hears her mother talk about her career, she realizes that she’s never going to achieve that change if she doesn’t take some risks.
Meanwhile, Tom and Derek are arguing over what songs to include, and the new kids, Jimmy and Kyle, are trying to get one of their songs on the night’s line-up.
Eileen’s legal woes come to a head and she ends up having to give up her role as producer in order to get the show to Broadway. The ugly side of that is her ex-husband, Jerry, who will take over as the show’s producer, seems to have orchestrated the entire thing in order to set up Eileen to fail. Does this mean Anjelica Huston is leaving the show?? Sad!
Jimmy acts like a petulant child when Tom and Derek don’t have time to hear his song and runs off on a bender. When he turns up, he and Karen share their first kiss.
Saw that coming. The only thing I can think is that Karen likes his talent (not always a safe play) and she likes how different he is from Dev who was the safe, had-his-shit-together guy. Other than that, I can’t see how someone like her would ever go out with someone like Jimmy who clearly has anger issues, maturity issues, and possibly some addiction issues as well.
Julia and the dramaturg, Peter, work on the book. Peter invites Julia to an acting class, which she thinks is to speak as a guest lector, but is actually another ambush. He wants her to hear her words performed by a bunch of amateur actors, and to get a fresh take on the material from some outsiders’ perspectives about how the story works.
Despite her anger, it actually helps Julia figure out how to change and redirect the story for Bombshell.
Cult
First off, some news: apparently the ratings for this show have been dismal so far, but the CW’s not ready to give up on it just yet. The show is headed to Friday night right after Nikita. It should be better off, up against only CBS’s Blue Bloods for that time block, and I think for some reason, being on right after Grimm, albeit on a different channel, might not be a bad thing.
The search for Jeff’s brother Nate continues. They go to talk to the suicidal woman’s husband, hoping he might have some clues as to her connection to Nate, but he turns them away–with a shotgun.
The police detective, Sakelik, seems to have a squeaky clean and rather stellar record, but her antagonism toward Jeff and Skye and her unwillingness to take their information into account has made her a suspect, of sorts.
Jeff and Skye end up back at the husband’s house just in time to witness another murder/accidental death as a flame/spark ignites the house which has been filling with propane. They escape unhurt, but just before they do, the husband repeats the eerie line, “These things just come right off.’
I was wondering about Skye’s motivation to help Jeff, and it seems that she has a connection that goes beyond her employ at the show. Her father was investigating the show’s writer/creater, Steven Rae when he died under mysterious circumstances, and the only thing she found repeatedly throughout his notes on Rae was the word “cult”–nine years before the show was created.
Jeff was wondering how she had all this time to help him too, and he demands an answer, pushing her into telling him the truth about why she is helping him.
Overall, I’d say the suspense isn’t half bad on this show. It keeps you wondering–who’s involved? Who’s a killer? Who’s pulling all the strings? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
It is a bit strange having Matt Davis as the lead, considering how much older he is than many of the other cast members, including Skye (Jessica Lucas), but it’s not a deal-breaker. I think the biggest problem is his stubbornness and his temper. He’s majorly flawed as a character, which is good, but where’s the redemption? The only redemption I see is that he cares about his brother. I’m not sure that’ll be enough for me in the long run. However, I’m willing to tune in for another episode or two to find out.
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Also, another scheduling change: in addition to Cult, Golden Boy is also moving to Friday nights, starting this week. Apparently its debut last Tuesday, and follow-up this Tuesday are temporary before it moves into Friday night as well, leading into Blue Bloods.
Makes sense, two cop shows in a row (though it did follow NCIS on Tuesdays, so not sure why the switch is important). Either way, this makes my Tuesday nights much less scary looking, which I’ll take as a win!
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