My takeaway from this comment is that Myles is writing SMASH fan fiction where Karen and Jimmy move back to Iowa with her parents, and Jimmy's really not a fan of the new episodes of Arrested Development.

Marc Shaiman posted a really interesting breakdown of all the songs he and Scott Wittman have written for Smash with a little insight into his frustrations and triumphs: http://clients.terraceprodu…

I'd pay a fair amount of money to see Richard Smith-Jones' production of Pipe Dream.

"You came so close, Richard. To becoming a human being. But you lost your soul. And now you're just a fool."

This is also finishing with excellent timing, because I saw when I went to watch this on Netflix last night that the show is expiring again on June 1st, so anyone just peaking in should get on it!

God, this episode captures the feeling of getting into a space and throwing together a show so beautifully. The scenes where Maria is running around and Geoffrey tells everyone where there entrances/exits are and a million little things are happening in the background are so true to life and really demonstrates the…

I thought "The Californians" was very funny the first time it aired, but even more than other recurring sketches, it suffered from not being able to have any real new jokes in each iteration (unless you consider naming different LA highways a new joke), which combined with its interminable running time made it hard to…

I actually really really liked the first episode a lot, which I thought was beautifully animated and actually kind of had emotional stakes. Or maybe I'm just too much of a sucker for examinations of male friendship in culture.

I've always wondered what would happen if one of the voice actors died or something. Harry Shearer's almost 70.

Yup. It was always rumored to be on the chopping block, especially because some of the CBS executives didn't like the show.

It'd be Oh, Calcutta!, no? So yeah, the 70s. It's also all you hear about when people talk about Equus or Take Me Out, although whether it impacted them commercially is certainly debatable.

I'm bummed that Suburgatory being midseason means probably no holiday episodes that they usually knock out of the park. Although maybe they'll pull a Cable/Community and follow a different timeline than when they're airing.

Well, according to Wikipedia, she's already "best known as "The Girl with the Yellow Umbrella" on How I Met Your Mother." so apparently this has given her a big career boost!

Milioti is EXCELLENT casting, she was heartbreaking and very funny in Once and has felt like she's been on the verge of a breakout for a while now with her various guest star pieces and small movie parts, so this is a pretty good move. And if they're doing the structural thing next season that it seems like they're…

I actually thought this episode mostly worked. Lindsay Mendez got to belt in the beginning, Tom wasn't awful like he's been at times this season, Derek yelled at Karen to stop making everything about herself, Lin Manuel Miranda made me laugh, and I liked the Tom/Julia stuff for the most part. The ending made me roll…

Deadline reports chatter about Harmon being courted to come back in some way, but also says the main reason for his leaving was Chevy, so boulder-sized grains of salt. http://www.deadline.com/201…

Hey, the great thing about TV is that quality can fluctuate upwards, so it might get really good again. Plus, I'll be happy to see everyone involved getting lots of 100-episode money if it crosses that line.

It sounds to me that this is more of a "couldn't find a good place for it on the schedule" problem, since it would be NBC's only multi-cam. Which is incredibly disappointing, but also gives me a reason to blame "Whitney" for something else terrible.

I've been pondering lately that the season might have been hurt just as badly by the 13-episode length  as they were by the Harmon situation. I wish they had more time to breathe and do smaller stuff, and an episode like this might not have even been terrible if they had more time to build to it (and, frankly, to give…

Not gonna lie, I'm sort of bothered by all the Barney/Robin's Dad bonding when they haven't brought John Lithgow back since S6.