I've binged this show over a week and kept thinking how sad it is for Catherine McPhee. In what could not be a more obvious attempt to showcase her, the powers-that-be made the mistake of surrounding her with people whose talents exceed hers by so much that they have achieved the opposite of their desired outcome. Beside Debra Messing, Angelica Huston and Uma Thurman it becomes painfully obvious that her acting talent is barely over community theater level. She has a voice suited to a Disney network teen comedy and is forced to stand embarrassingly beside Megan Hilty, Leslie Odom Jr and Jennifer Hudson has their voices soar. And maybe worst of all? They have this flat chested, dull as paint drying, sexless gal trying to play the most iconically sexy woman in American cinema. If you want to make someone look talented, folks, in the future surround them with people less talented than they are, although finding an entire cast of people more boring than McPhee would be challenging. Maybe try an accountants convention.
Review of Smash
