Smash “Chemistry” Recap
Uh-oh. There’s just one week until the workshop goes live before an audience, and as you might have expected, there were problems galore on last night’s episode of “Smash.” Julia’s script, and her affair with Michael, still weren’t totally finished, Karen realized she had only about $300 in her bank account (yikes!) and, worst of all, Ivy lost her voice…and possibly her claim as Marilyn?
One minute Ivy was fine, making catty comments and strutting around the studio, and the next, she was on vocal rest, and Julia, Eileen and Derek flirted with the idea of replacing her with Karen if she didn’t improve, an idea that unbeknownst to them, Karen overheard.
At home, Ivy was resting and took some medicine, which everyone repeatedly explained would help with her voice, but would have a bunch of weird side effects. No one mentioned that the weirdest side effect would be her singing, alone in her room, and then going full “Black Swan” on everyone, seeing Marilyn Monroe and Karen behind her over her shoulder. Time to try and sleep it off.
Meanwhile, Eileen and Ellis formed a weird partnership that will definitely implode before the season is done. Ellis helped her out while she was apartment searching, and then she wound up at a downtown bar with him. You haven’t seen the last of this newly formed duo. I don’t think it’s going in this direction, but I’m just putting it out there: I wouldn’t be too surprised if those two started hooking up. Eileen is newly single, and Ellis is determined to claw his way to the top, and nothing—not Julia, not his obnoxious personality and certainly not the idea of age-appropriate relationships—are going to get in his way.
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Apparently, Florence’s message really hits home for Karen, who has a revelation about her passion for performance, despite that whole “starving artist” thing. “Believe it or not, when I was told I was going to sing with a bar mitzvah band, I thought, ‘What could we do?’ Of course everyone thought it should be an old standard but the label and I put our heads together to think what might be very cool and also fun,” McPhee told AOL Music of the song selection process for the scene.