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“Smash” Finale: Greatest WTF Moments

by John | May 28, 2013

The Smash series finale was, unsurprisingly, a mess. Here are its messiest moments.

Smash ended its run Sunday night with the last two episodes stitched together Frankenstein-style into a “series finale”. You are forgiven for watching that Liberace movie instead. In a series loaded with WTF moments, the final two episodes delivered up some of the WTF-iest.

6. Tom Levitt Becomes Lucy Ricardo

Tom’s desperation for a Tony nomination for Best Director turns his penultimate story line on Smash into an episode of I Love Lucy. He obsessively checks his phone in the middle of a live theater performance and, when the person seated behind him complains about it, he shoves his phone in the guy’s face and brags about having just won an Outer Critics’ Circle Award for his work. Except, sad horns, the guy is Patrick Dillon, a Hollywood and Broadway actor who’s on the Tony nominating committee. So Tom sends him a bottle of wine as an apology, going into a panic when it’s pointed out that the wine could be seen as an illegal bribe. Unable to stop the delivery, Tom goes to Patrick’s building and tries to steal the bottle off the doorman’s station. He’s thwarted by the arrival of Patrick himself and Tom and Patrick wind up in a literal tug-of-war over the bottle until they send it smashing to the floor.

It’s all an elaborate meet-cute for Tom and Patrick, who is played by Luke MacFarlane and who would have been Tom’s closeted love interest had Smash gone to a third season. Smash proved conclusively in episode two of this season that it is incapable of hitting a sitcom beat with its painfully unfunny “Bombshell invades the Theater Society dinner” story and the decision to return to it ever is unfathomable.