Post-Mortem: Why Did “Smash” Crash?
“Smash” is no more. In all the hand-wringing analyses of what went wrong, I tend to agree with Variety: ‘“Smash†didn’t fail because it was a musical soap opera. It failed because…it was a bad musical soap opera — or more specifically, because the promise of its first few episodes and thrill of discovering its female leads vying for the part of Marilyn Monroe, Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty, wasn’t sustained past episode three.’ To which I would add: you’d never know from “Smash” that some people actually have fun working on a musical.
