Karen Cartwright, you glamorous minx! First you fight tooth and nail (polish) for the part of Marilyn Monroe, and now you're considering throwing it all away? Things were looking good for Katharine McPhee’s soft-spoken waitress-turned-songstress until the March 12 episode of Smash, when Jerry forced Karen to choose between her role in Bombshell (a.k.a. the show ...

The guilty pleasure that is Smash delivered some major drama on the March 5 episode "The Read-Through," and the result is... everyone’s mad at everyone! It turns out that some characters (coughKarencough) are having some trouble doing, well, their jobs. Jimmy’s royally sucking as a collaborator-slash-romantic; newcomer Terrance (Sean Hayes) is abysmal at dramatic acting; and Eileen apparently ...

As Smash’s second season shapes up, the claws are coming out—from everyone! On the February 26 episode “The Song,” Derek turns into a big bag of frowns as he clashes creatively with Ronnie, who isn’t the happiest camper herself thanks to her monstrous stage mother. Also joining the pouting crowd are Julia (whose Bombshell book is getting ...

As the second season of Smash continues to timestep and name-drop its way onto our TVs, we're still completely enamored with the show-within-the-show Bombshell (and the fabulous new album that we can't turn off). After tonight's episode "The Dramaturg," viewers were introduced to Bombshell's main competition, an edgy new rock show called Hit List and the ...

SPOILER ALERT! Stop reading if you haven't seen the season premiere of Smash! 

Theater fans, rejoice! Smash is back! NBC's love-it-or-loathe-it dramedy returned to the small screen for its second season, and the jam-packed two-hour premiered delivered tons of drama for our favorite crew of thespians (and the people who make their lives difficult). Julia's a mess ...