Musical episodes have become a standard for television shows, fueled by the success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6, Episode 7, “Once More with Feeling.” The Star Trek franchise gets onboard with Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 6, “Subspace Rhapsody,” as a quantum singularity causes the crew to spontaneously break out in choreographed musical numbers. It’s hardly an original moment, but it gives fans a breather after the previous episode — “Under the Cloak of War” — went very dark. It also gives the characters a chance to sort through their various relationships, which have lately taken a turn for the messy.Though most of the episode’s songs are original, it starts with a telling number: “Anything Goes” by Cole Porter, which Uhura describes as “something from the Great American Songbook.” It’s used as an obvious harbinger of the zany mayhem to come, but there’s a deeper connection that the episode declines to acknowledge. Not only is it a supremely appropriate warm-up for a musical set onboard a starship, but it carries subversiveness that goes far beyond a little singing and dancing.Porter wrote “Anything Goes” in 1934 as part of a Broadway musical of the same name, which has since become one of the songwriter’s signature works. The song itself has been covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald (and more recently Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga), while movie fans probably know it best for the opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where Kate Capshaw performs it in Mandarin Chinese. “Subspace Rhapsody” uses it similarly to Indy as a sign of imminent chaos.RELATED: REVIEW: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 9 Pulls Out the Stops for Its Musical
Musical episodes have become a standard for television shows, fueled by the success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6, Episode 7, “Once More with Feeling.” The Star Trek franchise gets onboard with Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 6, “Subspace Rhapsody,” as a quantum singularity causes the crew to spontaneously break out in choreographed musical numbers. It’s hardly an original moment, but it gives fans a breather after the previous episode — “Under the Cloak of War” — went very dark. It also gives the characters a chance to sort through their various relationships, which have lately taken a turn for the messy.
Though most of the episode’s songs are original, it starts with a telling number: “Anything Goes” by Cole Porter, which Uhura describes as “something from the Great American Songbook.” It’s used as an obvious harbinger of the zany mayhem to come, but there’s a deeper connection that the episode declines to acknowledge. Not only is it a supremely appropriate warm-up for a musical set onboard a starship, but it carries subversiveness that goes far beyond a little singing and dancing.
Porter wrote “Anything Goes” in 1934 as part of a Broadway musical of the same name, which has since become one of the songwriter’s signature works. The song itself has been covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald (and more recently Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga), while movie fans probably know it best for the opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where Kate Capshaw performs it in Mandarin Chinese. “Subspace Rhapsody” uses it similarly to Indy as a sign of imminent chaos.
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