So this week’s Smash, “Hell on Earth,” focused on Julia’s unraveling marriage and Ivy’s insipid sanity. If you watched the drama, it truly was a Bombshell. I keep trying to tell Ivy that God don’t like ugly but I guess she can’t hear me through the screen…especially since the episode was pre-recorded months ago. Anyway, if you believe in God or not, everyone at least believes that if you do good, good will happen to you. And the conflict between Ivy and Karen has gotten ridiculous. Karen has been nothing but nice to Ivy and Ivy continually keeps being the biggest b**ch on the planet. What has been happening; good things to Karen and bad things to Ivy. This week the good thing that happened to Karen was she landed the national commercial for orange juice in which Ivy was late to. The bad thing that happened to Ivy besides once again losing to Karen, she fell down drunk on the show she was working on a as a chorus girl and Karen happened to see it all due to the fact that at the audition for the commercial they accidently switched sun glasses when they bumped into one another. Being the b**ch Ivy is she threw Karen’s away and being the gentle soul Karen is, she went to return Ivy’s at the Heaven on Earth. That’s when she saw the spectacle that is Ivy failing miserably to hold it all together. Ivy has been under “a lot of stress” as her dreams tumble down after being so close to them. Like I said, God don’t like ugly!
Karen follows Ivy all around the city and the two of them have it out to the point that Karen tells Ivy that Derek chose her as the first choice to sleep with him. Eventually the two of them get drunk as Karen refuses to leave Ivy alone and they end up in Time Square singing and dancing to a remix of a song I don’t know the title of but finally they’re having a good time after Karen tells Ivy it’s her night to shine. But when they get back to Ivy’s apartment, Ivy tells Karen they’re not best friends because of everything that happened and Karen just replies, “I know.”
Meanwhile Frank accidently finds a song that leads to him asking the right questions when Julia comes home later that night. It’s kind of creepy hearing him sing it while he plays the piano. Julia walks in slowly and realizes what he is singing. When he asks her to sing it I knew he had lost a few screws. He almost immediately guesses it was Michael she was having an affair with and the next day goes to confront him. That’s when Michael lets it slip that, “it was over a long time ago. And it shouldn’t have started up again, but that’s on me.” Frank realizes it’s been more than just since they began working on Marilyn, and as Michael tries to grab him when he begins to stumble away Frank decks him right in the face. Then he goes home to pack and Leo yells at his mom for telling him about the affair, saying that they were “happy” but now Frank is leaving. As Julia tries to stop him he yells about the betrayal and the fact she didn’t mention that it was the second time they had started having an affair. Slamming the door he leaves the house and where he went is unknown.
Other stuff happened too, like Ellis trying to become a co-producer but Eileen shuts him down because he didn’t realize how over his head he was. Tom realizes his new beau is a republican, which is bad for him I guess…but he becomes closer to Sam (The Random Gay Black Guy) as they worry about Ivy. I call Sam that because when he first shows up he’s just this random black guy who knows Ivy and it’s not until the next episode you find out his name and it’s not until like two or three after that you find out he’s gay as well. Who knew? Also Eileen plays Derek so that way he stays after he was talking about revamping a lot more than just the lead and talking about doing another workshop in a year. But the episode was really about Frank, Ivy, Karen, and Julia and how some need to hold it together and some just need to let people know the truth.
I honestly feel bad for Frank and in my opinion if Julia had really been sorry about what was going on, then right away, when she broke it off the second time with Michael, she would have told Frank the truth, then he may have been a little less angry and at least heard what she had to say. But is there really a way to explain why you cheated on someone? But Frank was right, saying it was nothing is stupid. I never realized that. Just because you feel bad about it afterwards doesn’t make it nothing. At some point it was something, or if not, then if anything it was betrayal, lies, deceit, and all the other stuff Frank yells off at her. Anyway, I’m excited to see what’s going to happen next week when Uma Thurman guest stars as the newly titled Bombshell begins anew. I like that title by the way; it just summarizes who Marilyn Monroe was and the news that was dropped in Julia’s life and how Ivy feels and how Karen’s life is turning out but for the better. Julia just says the title with a straight face as she realizes that’s it…for a lot of things.
Anyway until next time, According to Michael III, sometimes it’s better to just tell the truth, and sometimes it’s better to ease into it but the truth now is always better than hearing it somewhere else or finding out from someone else later…
—Michael III
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