Grab Your Scarf! ‘Smash’ Is Finally Streaming on Peacock

Erin Strecker
·2 min read

It’s been much longer than a thousand and one nights, but “Smash,” the cult classic NBC musical drama executive produced by Steven Spielberg that aired for two seasons back in 2012, is finally on Peacock.

If you didn’t have on DVD (!), it has been a minute since the show — which starred Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee as competing actresses for the role of Marilyn Monroe on Broadway and also featured Anjelica Huston, Debra Messing, Christian Boyle, Uma Thurman, and many others — was available anywhere to stream.

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That changes July 15, when all 32 episodes will finally be streamable on Peacock. Presumably, the network is making the critically maligned show available now because there is going to be a “Smash” musical debuting on Broadway in Spring 2025.

Per a press note, “Smash” won “a Critics Choice Television Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and received five Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, winning for Outstanding Choreography. The series also received both Golden Globe and GRAMMY Award nominations.”

It is perhaps best known as a perennial favorite of the terminally online (it was a popular “hate-watch”). The show was ridiculous, but it was quite often also a campy delight, an aspect of the program that only grew more pronounced in the more self-aware second season. (Scarves for all!) If you’ve never seen, this reporter highly recommends a binge this week while sitting in AC. Warning: You will quickly fall down a rabbit hole that ends with discovering that at one point, NBC was so hype about this show they built an entire Super Bowl ad around introducing America to the “newest member of the NBC family, ‘Smash,'” that featured just about every current NBC star “singing” “Brotherhood of Men.”

Since the show was canceled in 2013, the cast has gotten together a few times for special one-night-only resurrections of the (genuinely great) score, and the excellent feedback from those events likely gave producers the confidence to turn “Smash” into a Broadway musical. Other great tunes by Tony-winning Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman include the iconic “Let Me Be Your Star,” “Let’s Be Bad,” and “The 20th Century Fox Mambo.”

Check out just one great number — Megan Hilty belting “They Just Keep Moving the Line” — below:

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