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Saturday, October 27, 2012
2:18 pm
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Tagged: abc, Connie Britton, country music, funny, hayden panatierre, hilarious, opry, Powers Boothe, recap, recaps, sarcastic, soap, tvgasm
We open with sweeping views of Nashville while Juliette’s terrible (but now stuck in my head) song Telescopeplays . Juliette’s preening before a camera as she goes about her business being a mega-super-star and idol to tweenage girls everywhere. She gets a dual dose of bad news: Deacon has once again refused to tour with Juliette AND CrackMom chained herself to Juliette’s record company until they threw some money at her. CrackMom is like a cockroach – she will endure.
I know you expect me to handle the Deacon and CrackMom situations…see, I can’t. I’m not that great of a manager. I have terrible ideas and am incompetent. Sorry. Can I have my 10% now?
Shift to Rayna and Teddy’s McMansion as they scramble through their morning routine. Teddy, in what is the most chumpiest move, offers to drive the kids when Deacon blazes up Rayna’s cell phone. Who in their right mind could have any respect for a man who says “No, don’t worry, I’ll take the kids. You just sit back, relax and talk to your exlover. It must be way more important than being a mom to your kids.” Chumpy!
Gunnar and Scarlet and working on a song…it sounds as lovely and natural as all their songs so far. I just love their harmonizing. So pretty! Avery comes home and interrupts them, not rudely at all which surprised and pleased me and then left them to their business. I’m thinking a character with more malevolent intentions would have parked his evil ass on the sofa in front of them. Instead, Avery gracefully retired to the bedroom to let them continue working.
So, they’re all looking toward the bedroom. Am I the only one who really wouldn’t mind taking a bite of that jambalaya?
At home with Rayna, Teddy and the financial advisors. Good times. Except, not so much because the Jaymes-Conrads are in a mess. They’re not quite po’ yet but definitely POOR.
Juliette is walking out of the studio, haranguing her PA about getting better cheese. I’m not sure if she’s trying to be classy by asking for the little cheese in cubes or if she honestly thinks that’s the best kind of cheese. Whatever. I find it completely trailer park adorable. She’s completely thrown as CrackMom intercepts her. I genuinely felt Juliette’s discomfort, surprise and fear. Well done, Pantalette!
And here is CrackMom, looking like a young Gollum. She’s trying to cracktalk her way to Juliette and it’s always heartbreaking to see addiction destroy people. I realize shame is what keeps many people trapped in addiction but I wish that CrackMom could see with a rational eye how she’s embarrassing herself, skulking around looking all methy and dirty, waiting to pounce on her daughter, speedtalking. I think too many addicts became hooked because of shame they shouldn’t have felt – like over being abused, having mental health issues, etc. yet the healthy shame that would keep them from behaving in ways that drive friends and family away doesn’t seem to exist for them. I have ZERO doubt that Juliette would pay for rehab – the swankiest – with pleasure if only her mother would put the necessary work into staying clean. CrackMom just loves her drugs more than she loves her daughter. It’s that simple and that complicated at the same time. Because what has gone so wrong with this woman, either in her past or in her mind, that makes her choose drugs over her own child and her own health repeatedly. I definitely don’t think it’s as simple as she should want to get clean for her daughter’s sake. Recovery only works if you’re doing it for yourself – not your kids, not your husband, etc. God, this show is so well-written that I honestly feel like these characters are real people.
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I haven’t watched an episode – but read all the recaps (I LOVE Hayden Panettiere). I had to comment about your absolute frustration with the oversexualization of little girls. I have two stepdaughters (16 and 14) and a daughter (almost 4) and it’s ridiculous to go clothes shopping anymore. I don’t have much say in what the older girls wear (though their father and I have had more than one conversation about it)…but even the youngest! I HATE shopping for her sometimes (especially during the summer).
WHY DOES MY PRESCHOOLER NEED TO DRESS LIKE A STREETWALKER???? WHO DESIGNS THESE CLOTHES????
You’re not the only mum out there who thinks the way you do!
Growing up, I remember the 3-B rule….no butt, no boob, and no belly showing.
Great recap so far! I had to add my 2 cents about your comments on the girls singing telescope. I was also a bit put off that they were singing that song, and I agree with you that it’s how the sexualization of kids starts. Without being a complete Debby Downer here, the statistics on child sexual abuse are quite staggering. I unfortunately have to know a lot about it because I’m a mandated reporter, and when I found out that approximately 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 5 boys are sexually abused, I was so utterly devastated (the stats came from the PA family support alliance program). I can only hope that the pendulum will swing back the other way and our kids will be treated as kids again.
The two girls who play Rayna’s daughters are actually sisters, Lennon and Maisy Stella. They have YouTube videos of them performing together so it doesn’t surprise me they would perform on the show. They’re actually pretty amazing. The story is the younger one auditioned for the part of one of Rayna’s daughters and brought her sister along (they’re from Tennessee or Kentucky I believe) and when the producers heard them sing they were so blown away they offered them both the job even though the girls ages in the original idea were much different.
Just a bit of trivia.
Thank you for this recap. It was hilarious and spot on. I hated how Scarlett was staring at Avery the whole time she was singing. I love Lamar’s smarmy-ness. It’s like he’s growling. The shoplifting felt authentic, given the kind of person that Juliette is and that was losing on all fronts. I don’t like the mom living at the house either. If you are a crackhead, you can’t stay at my house!
Sexual abuse of children doesn’t really have anything to do with mainstream sexualization of children though.
And I hate when people imply that it does, because it places some of the responsibility for the abuse on the child. Like if Becky had just worn longer shorts or put a sweater on over her tank top, she wouldn’t have been snatched up by that pervert. And that’s not right. People who abuse kids are sick freaks who’s brains are wired in sick, freaky ways. Even if all children were dressed in nun’s habits, they would still be preyed upon by pedophiles. The same way that it’s been happening pretty much throughout time. People in ancient cultures had sexual relations with kids, sometimes with the sanction of societies and religions, and that’s something that has continued through today. There is no pendulum.
I also don’t trust statistics like that, because sexual abuse of minors is one of those crimes that is mis- and under-reported alot. So nobody really knows how prevalent it is, or if it’s really getting better or worse.
BUT ANYWAYS.
Juliette’s manager is terrible. If you don’t want the mom in trouble, get her a hotel room and an armed guard to escort her everywhere and let that be that.
Don’t bring her into the house. Watch Juliette come home one day and that shit be picked clean. Even the carpet is gonna be gone. Especially if the mom didn’t break up with the boyfriend and is just using this as an opportunity to get them both into Juliet’s house and wallet. Kind of like how one bee will find a nice flower and then go tell the rest of the bees about it.
Crackheads are so crafty, it’s not even funny. You have to watch them.
Like your eye was a telescope.
seewhatididthar?
And Rayna’s husband.
What. did. he. do? And what is Rayna gonna do when the shit hits the fan? You know it will, because the IRS doesn’t play games and doesn’t care what Rayna’s daddy owns in Nashville.
Poor Rayna….to go from a (sexy) drug addict to a bitchass swindler and liar, whom she now must support, even while he does evil behind her back.
And then to have the snake from Rango lurking in the background of it all.
Damn, girl.
Scarlet is working my last nerve.
I liked her in the beginning, but I’m at a point where I’m about ready for her to find her legs and start using them. All this mousing around with them big ole eyes, moaning about how she isn’t good enough when everyone is telling her that she’s the best thing since fried dough is getting tired. Time to put it to bed, girl.
Anyone else would have gotten themselves a little confidence by now.
If this is going to be Gunnar’s life, constantly trying and failing to get Scarlett to be her own person, he should just find someone else. Nobody has time for alladat.
Gunnar and Juliette need to be together. It’s best for both of them.
@chaosbutterfly: I totally I agree with you that pedophiles will be pedophiles, regardless of how children dress. However, part of my concern about the oversexualization of children is that it can create a climate where the lines between child behaviours and adult behaviours become quite blurred. The norms for children change, and their perceptions of themselves change as well. Things that would have been far out of the norm for 11 and 12 year olds in the past are quickly becoming the norm, because it’s becoming normal for them to be presented as sexual before they have the maturity to understand what to do with that sexuality. And I do fear that it makes them more vulnerable to predators, even though for the predators it’s just an excuse to add to their already long list of excuses for why it’s okay for them to do what they do.
I would never place the blame of abuse on the victim.
That being said – I think the oversexualization of children HAS led to an increase in teenage sexual behavior and even younger. My best friend’s son came home in 4th grade talking about how two kids got caught in one of the bathrooms – the girl (5th grader) was giving the boy (4th grader) a blowjob. *ugh* and *ICK* But apparently, it wasn’t that shocking to everyone else. And this is a “good school” in the suburbs. Educated (and in THIS economy solid-middle-class-to-wealthy) parents.
Kids are “experimenting” younger, with everything – makeup/clothes/sexual behaviors… It’s not about predators – ya’ll are right – THAT kind of evil is going to happen no matter what. It’s about the average girl/boy and what they feel is appropriate for their age… That’s changed drastically, I think.
@chaosbutterfly – Of course the victims aren’t to blame, nowhere in my statement was I trying to imply that. What Lizbot and Mummy butterfly said was exactly what I was trying to get across.
The pendulum I was speaking of was the inappropriate clothing, music, etc. marketed towards children.
And I understand people being wary of stats, sometimes they aren’t always quite what they make them out to be. But with my own personal experiences in my career, I have found the stats to be on target. Maybe not everywhere is as bad as where I work, and I certainly hope it isn’t, but I cannot hide from the truth of what I know.
I’m finally actually watching this show (instead of just reading the recaps) — I found out it’s on my cable’s On-Demand programming.
It’s good! Right now I’m leaning more to Team Juliette than Team Rayna, just because I feel for Juliette and I feel she gets her hard edge and penchant for poor decision-making from having a hard-scrabble life, whereas Rayna has had an embarrassment of riches (literal and figurative) that she seems to take for granted and seems to feel entitled too. That being said, I do feel for Rayna, given that despite her many riches (figurative and otherwise) it can’t really make up for having lost a mother and having a Class A jerk for a surviving parent. That’s the great thing about th is show — the complexity of the characters. I’m looking forward to watching and reading more!
I blame the MTV.
Having the mother move in is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Seriously she has enough money that she can pay for her to have a hotel and a guard follow her around like someone else said and keep her away and out of trouble. She should just do that. Or put her mother in rehab. Or ship her across the globe and it would take her awhile to figure out how to get back. Maybe I should be her manager. I have better ideas.
5 points that Rayna’s mom’s affair was with Watty White. Lamar did say “singer-songwriter”, right?
^ Ooh, nice catch.
It would also be apropos, since Watty and Rayna have more of a father and daughter relationship than Rayna and her real dad.
That is, if he /is/ her real dad.
*dramatic squirrel*
My husband did not think she intended to get caught stealing but I was like she obviously was! She wants her name in the tabloids for going nuts like a lot of female celebrities do. Pulling a lohan/bynes.