Dear Frank,

Here is a list of things I really enjoy:

• Broadway musicals.
• Jack Davenport.
• Shows where people throw martinis in other people’s faces.
• Marilyn Monroe, in all her complexity.
• Jack Davenport being super-snarky-smug-sexy.
• Young women being assertive and going after their dreams.
• Older women being total badasses.
• Dance numbers.

Frank, there are few shows on Earth I have wanted to like more than NBC’s Smash, which technically includes all those things. And yet by the end of the first season, it had evolved into one of today’s best hate-watching experiences.

However, hate-watching is fun when the show starts bad and doesn’t get any better. (Sorry, Millionaire Matchmaker wait I don’t really mean that.) Hate-watching something you had high hopes for? Always a bit heart-breaking. Read the rest of this entry →