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Smash – Season 1 – Episode 7 – The Workshop

I’m sickened (that’s right, Vidar is now using the pronoun “I” because unless you are Elmo, it’s fucking annoying to talk all the time in the third person). I am Vidar – the Norse God of Silence – and I hate “Smash.” The latest episode…

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Smash – Season 1 – Episode 5 – Let’s Be Bad

There is nothing Vidar can do to save this show. “Smash” is awful. It didn’t start awful. Episode 1 “Pilot” was very promising and was going to launch Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee into the stratosphere of TV stardom. However, as it turns out, the…

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Smash – Season 1 – Episode 4 – The Cost Of Art

Is this show over? Vidar finds it very hard to watch a show in which there is no one to root for. After this week’s episode “The Cost Of Art,” it is very hard to feel anything for Ivy (Megan Hilty) because she has turned…

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Smash – Season 1 – Episode 3 – Enter Mr. DiMaggio

“Melrose Place” is alive and well and living on Broadway. What in Odin’s name happened to “Smash”? In two weeks it has gone from a good, solid series with terrific musical numbers to a truly suck ass, trashy soap opera. It’s only a matter of…

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Smash – Season 1 – Episode 2 – The Callback

Is it possible to Jump The Shark in Episode 2 of a series?   Vidar has become exhausted with the tidiness and precision of this show. Everything is properly placed, the extras seemed posed and stiff, the furniture and lighting all much too “designed” –…

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Smash – Season 1 – Episode 1 – Pilot

Uh-oh – “Smash” is not one. (Vidar is sorry for that Variety-like opening line.) While it is a pretty good show – better than most (once you get past the first painful ten minutes where everyone is trying too hard) – not very many people will…

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SMASH

Goddag. Vidar is back! After many months of mental exhaustion and personal Vidar time – the darkness has lifted. The sun is shining again over Asgard and much is now right under the World Tree Yggdrasil. The divorce from the she-bitch Solveig is final and…