Nashville Recap: Country singers are as damaged and slutty as rockers

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By SourCake | Friday, October 12, 2012 | 1:37 pm | 12 Comments
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So many characters are being thrown at you and I must confess, I’m having a hard time keeping the men straight. There seems to be an abundance of grizzled old men…some are helpful, some are evil. Then there is cohort of skinny cute boys, again, some seem helpful, some seem evil. And yet another group of milquetoast y middle-aged men who don’t strike me as particularly evil but I think they’re the type to lie and cheat and secretly blame all their failings on the women in their lives. See below for a wee list:

Deacon Claybourne – Milquey #1. Guitarist for Rayna’s band and her one that got away. Fell to Juliet’s conquistador vagine. Uncle to Scarlett. Possible recovering addict – which could explain why Rayna ended up marrying Teddy instead of him.

Teddy Conrad – Milquey #2. Rayna’s loser husband and likely soon-to-be mayor of Nashville. He’s got a beat-me face and I will eat all my vegetables if he doesn’t cheat on Rayna by the season finale. Probably with Juliet because he’s got an asshole streak…I’m guessing.

 I’ll divorce you if you get a face lift. Ha, just kidding! I’ll never divorce you. Why would I when you’re famous and I’ve been banging hot tail since the early 90′s behind your back?

Randy Roberts – Milquey #3. Rayna’s music producer and another of Juliet’s conquests. Bucky – Rayna’s manager. Avery Barkley – Skinny boy #1. Scarlett’s boyfriend, possible heroin addict (?). I’m only guessing but dude is like 120 soaking wet. His soul patch tells me he’s evil. I’m not too ashamed to admit I squealed “Lucky!” when he first appeared onscreen as the actor who portrays him is most known for his role as Lucky Spencer on General Hospital. Gunnar Scott – Skinny boy #2. Singer/songwriter, friend of Deacon and possible nemesis to Avery due to his lustful feelings towards poor, beautiful waify Scarlett. His absence of soul patch = not evil. Lamar Wyatt – Grizzled old dude #1. Rayna’s prickish father and high-powered politico. Evil.

I’ll rip your face off with my giant, terrifying teeth!

Glenn Goodman – Grizzled old dude #2. Juliet’s manager and likely surrogate daddy figure. Possibly evil but with a name like Goodman, likely he will prove helpful. Watty White – Grizzled old dude #3. Rayna’s father figure and confidant. Helpful. It’s Watty who throws Rayna a rope while she’s drowning in career torpor. When Scarlett is cajoled into singing one of her songs during open mic night at the Bluebird, Watty is captivated by her raw talent and calls Rayna to listen. The look on Rayna’s face as she listens to the cell proves why Connie Britton deserves an Emmy for this. We can see the hope, the excitement and the uncertainty on her face because she senses this is her way out, her salvation but she’s not quite sure how to make it work. Here’s my guess – Rayna gets Scarlett added to the concert tour she will embark on with Juliet. It will be like some kind of moonshiney Lilith Fair. It can be billed as three generations of country music – the legend, the star and the up-n-comer. Hopefully Bad Idea Jeans will be doing the costumes.

“So, you’re telling me I either do the tour with that slutbag or sit between Mimoo and Minajerie as cannon fodder on Idol? FML.”

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Situated in the Canadian hinterlands, SourCake can be (and has been) described as layabout, gadabout, welfare mom, world traveller, SAHM and a fairly good time at a reasonable price. Past interests include hotboxing and kickboxing but not foxxyboxxing. Current interests seem limited to diaper changes and scrapbooking.

12 Comments

  1. 1
    ChaCha
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Can’t believe no one else has responded yet. Am I the only ‘gasmii that has watched this entertaining show? Good job recapping, SourCake. I’ll keep watching the show and reading your recaps.

  2. 2
    eyediosmio eyediosmio
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 9:22 am

    I haven’t seen this yet but it’s only list of shows to see! Lived this recap, can’t wait to read more!

  3. 3
    CrazyTrain CrazyTrain
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 9:23 am

    Thanks for the recap! The show was a little confusing, and this helped alot. I really actually like the show too. :)

  4. 4
    Hayley
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    I was so excited for this show to premiere, but didn’t want to get my hopes up too high just in case it flopped. I thought it was a strong pilot, and am really anticipating watching next week. I’m a Nashville (the city) lover, and will be going to college down there next fall, so it was pretty easy for them to hook me into watching. I wouldn’t be surprised if the show does well and the city sees a big increase in tourism. It’s really a gem of a city that not very many people know about.

  5. 5
    crazy rooster
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Great recap! Connie britton is a great actress plus her hair is just gorgeous. I have high hopes for this series. Powers Booth scares me tho. He is like J.R.Ewing on steroids.

  6. 6
    April
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    I also am in love with her hair Crazy Rooster.

    I live in Chattanooga so about 2 hours from Nashville. I about had to smack my hubby though because every time they showed the Nashville skyline he yelled out “Batman building!”. If you don’t know what that is there is a building that looks like Batman’s cowl thing with the pointy ears going up. Nerd….

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted October 14, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    This show was surprisingly good.
    I wasn’t sure that I would like it, but I got sucked in pretty much right away, and was even a little sad when it was over.

    At the end though, when that producer guy came to Juliette’s house on a booty call, who was the dude on her couch? Was that Deacon or Avery? I hope it wasn’t Deacon. I was so proud of him for standing up to Juliette when she tried to sexually assault him outside of the lounge.

    And I hope Scarlett doesn’t get added to Juliette’s nasty tour.
    What should happen is that Rayna should start grooming Scarlett to eventually go head to head against Juliette. Like how Dumbledore prepped Harry to eventually beat Voldemort. If the show is real-life based though, I bet money that Scarlett won’t ever become as popular as Juliette. Nobody ever pays attention to talented people nowadays. Don’t know why.

    About Juliette being compared to Taylor Swift, I actually see that very clearly.
    Number one because like Juliette, Taylor Swift cannot sing worth a lick and everyone knows she cannot sing, but people stay falling all over her anyway.
    Number two because like Juliette, Taylor Swift projects this sweet image to her fans, but she’s actually a black-hearted, soul-sucking bitch. I know people probably would not agree with me on that, but she is so false and sinister to me. If China ever successfully enslaves the U.S., I bet Taylor Swift will be behind it somehow, somewhere.
    Number three because like Juliette, Taylor Swift is a sexual predator and no one seems to notice or care.
    The only way that Juliette and Carrie Underwood have something more in common than Juliette and Taylor Swift is that Juliette and Carrie are both pretty. Can’t say that for Taylor.
    Man, I hate Taylor Swift.

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    itchy itchy
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 6:28 am

    I made it only 15 minutes or so. The show takes itself way too seriously (which it has no right to do), and to top it off… there’s country music in it. Maybe if it was funny. Even cheesy funny. But it’s not.

    Short recap: This show is about the conflict between old-style country and newfangled country. The loser: my ears.

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    Jessi
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 11:33 am

    I watched this with great trepidation the other day, but I really enjoyed it! Hopefully it’ll be a fun ride. So glad you’re recapping it! I had a hard time keeping all the white guys straight, too.
    Chaosbutterfly, you make me laugh.

  10. 10
    April
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 7:48 am

    Okay I like Taylor Swift’s music and I find her super pretty but that is about all I know about her.

    Except that she dated Taylor Lautner the love of my life and broke that poor sweet boy’s heart. He totally loved her and for her birthday he flew across the country to surprise her and brought her roses and apparently she then broke up with him. Then she wrote that song apologizing to him and acting like she wanted him back, but apparently he was done with her at that point. He started dating Lily Collins.

    So I don’t like what she did to Taylor. He is a sweet genuinely nice guy and she is a total man eater.

  11. 11
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted October 20, 2012 at 12:25 am

    I think TS is homely as heck.
    She looks like someone who was pretty once upon a time, until God’s hand reached down and squeezed her face so hard that when he let go, her features never unscrunched themselves.
    Just homely.

    And she looks mad sinister about the eyes. Like she’s always planning some deviously evil shit. Which I’m sure she is.
    If North Korea ever successfully blows up the other countries, Taylor Swift will be in Pyongyang, pressing the buttons and sipping mimosas with Kim Jong Un.

    And I’m sure she knew where Osama was the entire time.

    Department of Homeland Security is wasting their time with black ops and phone bugs. What they need to do is apprehend Taylor Swift.

    *throws holy water at Taylor Swift*

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    niknakflipflop niknakflipflop
    Posted October 20, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    @chaosbutterfly-your comments are truly epic. I love it!

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