Did Karen Cartwright get SHOT during Hitlist "producers preview"?

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:17pm

So I watching this today On Demand. While Jimmy was stumbling around, stoned out of his mind on crank or whatever, Ana raises the gun and shoots Karen and she falls to the ground. The cast seems stunned and someone gasps "Why didn't Jimmy catch her?"

Later the stage manager is looking at her and says she should get her arm looked at by a doctor. But when she got "shot" on stage, I could clearly see blood appear on her chest- it was On Demand so I backed it up and watched it again- Boom and a spot of red just below & between her breasts and she falls. Later when you see her backstage, no blood.

Does anyone know what happened? Was she going to get shot and then they changed it? It seems odd she'd "fall" expecting Jimmy to catch her when he was clearly across the stage from her. If she she stage falls every night, why not just slump to the ground instead of hitting the railing like a sack of dead potatoes?

Is this just another bizarro Smash World happening?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:43pm

The CHARACTER in Hit List gets shot thus the stage blood. KAREN hurt her wrist (arm?) breaking her own fall because Jimmy wasn't there to catch her.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:44pm

She got a bad boo boo but it's ok because Kyle got a worser boo boo.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:51pm

The stage blood threw me for a second. No one uses it any more, especially if the actor is just going to clutch themselves and fall backwards. It's a pain to deal with, gets all over everything and has to be washed out of the costumes.

So, for a moment I did have a thought of, "Oh wow, someone used real bullets".

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:53pm

I was PRAYING that Wednesday Addams went crazy and loaded that gun with real bullets so that season 3 could be the dramatic "trial season".

[broadway guy]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:54pm

Shouldn't this be in the smash thread? YOU ARE TAKING UP SPACE!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 6:58pm

So are you.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 7:00pm

I disagree.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 7:04pm

The only one.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 7:06pm

Probably has Jim Henson's fist up his @$$.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/1/13 at 7:14pm

They used stage blood as a red herring. They wanted us to think she was actually shot. (IMO)

[Patash]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 9:45am

"Did Karen Cartwright get SHOT (and killed) during Hitlist?"

Unfortunately no. She is still alive to sing and attempt to act some more.

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 10:39am

What confused me was that Karen looked like it was the bullet wound that hurt her (I attribute this to either, as dramamama said, the show did it a red herring to make us believe - for at least a commercial break - she was actually shot, or to McPhee’s awful acting).

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 10:43am

How have you guys missed all the signs? Karen has been dead since she quit Bombshell. She died of a broken heart. But like that guy in the "I see dead people" movie, she does not know she is dead. Look carefully at all the scenes where she "interacts" with other characters. She is not even able to make eye contact with them.

Also, obvious, is that Season Five is going to begin with Derek waking up and hearing the shower running. When he goes to check on it, Karen is showering, Derek freaks out, Karen tells him none of that bad stuff had happened, it had just been a bad dream. They both exit to go to the opening night of "Bombshell," starring .... to be continued in Season Six.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 10:43am

Sorry, ^^^ SPOILER ALERT ^^^ and yes, season five is only one episode long, which NBC will air after "Late Night with Fred Armisen" one Monday morning at 1:35.

Updated On: 5/2/13 at 10:43 AM

Posted: 5/2/13 at 11:42am

Namo I love you.

I guess the stage blood makes sense (at least in the Smashiverse).

Of course, they have shown us before that the "Shooting" scene was the last scene in the show and then in this episode added a peppy
"Day by Day" type number to cap it off. I am assuming that this is to tie it more closely with Rent Awakening- two other shows that kill off characters only to resurrect them for a feel good finale.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 12:19pm

And Les Miz! At least the movie, I am far too young to have ever seen it onstage.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 12:22pm

If Karen & Kyle die,there might be a serial killer targeting K-names. That woul be scary.

[Patronus]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 12:47pm

It could make for excellent tv if Kellis, Keileen, Ktom, Kjulia and Kjimmy have a silent K.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 12:58pm

If Karen & Kyle die,there might be a serial killer targeting K-names. That would be scary.

Can there be a Smash/Keeping up the Kardashians cross-over event?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 12:59pm

The "Who Shot/Ran Over K-K?" cliffhanger will be the talk of the summer. We're talking bumper stickers, t-shirts, the whole nine.

Posted: 5/2/13 at 4:37pm

I did think it was funny they finally let Andy Mentius sing and then they ran him over.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/2/13 at 5:06pm

Finally? Its the second time he sang this season.

Posted: 5/2/13 at 5:44pm

Must have missed that episode. Thanks for reminding me of it