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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
Juliette is woken up by her security team manning the gate. Her mother has come for a visit! How nice.
At least the guard contacting Juliette this time instead of just waving her on through. Remember how he just let Randy drive on up and interrupt Juliette and Deacon in the first episode?
CrackMom begs Juliette, telling her she has nowhere else to go. How charming! And there’s nothing quite so angering as a crackhead getting all “I raised you! You owe me!” Juliette plays it perfectly in this scene. I just love how she won’t cave. She’s heard her lies a million times and it doesn’t matter what she does or doesn’t do, CrackMom is never going to change.
She bawls her eyes out as she walks away. My heart breaks for her again. She wipes her tears up before facing Deacon who’s blithely sipping coffee in the kitchen. At least he was nice enough to make her a cup too. He hightails it out the second, I mean the fucking SECOND Rayna calls. It’s disgusting. And then the jerk doesn’t even have the decency to wait until he’s OFF JULIETTE’S PROPERTY before calling Rayna back. Seriously, ass, she might even be able to hear you because I don’t think you waited for the fucking door to close before ringing Rayna up.
Rayna is in her car, near tears. She asks to meet to talk. My heart goes out to her. She’s dealing with some heavy crap and she needs to lean on a friend. I can totally understand that. It’s just Deacon is being such a prick in the way he’s handling Juliette.
Music City Credit Union, or where I like to call Where Shit is About to Get Real Real on Teddy’s Ass. Teddy’s there to beg a line of credit from some banker dude. They commiserate a bit about the tough economic times and then banker dude sadly announces that the credit union is being audited. And Teddy looks like this:
Seriously, wouldn’t you be surreptiously dialling the IRS headquarters to give them the heads-up on his ass after this face?
And then he makes it WAYYYY more obvious by immediately fleeing. Dundundun.
Avery comes home to Scarlet sweetly cooking. Avery gently listens to Scarlet’s concerns and tries to alleviate them. He’s very sweet and kind and it works. AND for once I made it through an Avery scene without cringing in fear that he was going to wallop Scarlet.
“Imagine it’s just you and me in that studio. Hell, I’ll even be there if you want.”
Score! I smiled slyly when he said this. I’ve been waiting for him to try and horn in and here he goes! But truly, I have no problem with that. As I mentioned in my minicap, I much prefer people who do good things for bad reasons than bad things for good reasons (an example of letting your preteen child sing a sexually suggestive song in front of the whole school and assembled parentage as doing something bad for a good (making a child feel admired and proud) reason. And Avery sounds the most honest, sincere and least creepy as he tells Scarlet “Don’t do it for yourself. Do it for me.” And he actually means it. He wants Scarlet to record so he can get in with Watty and his crew. And he also wants Scarlet to be happy, but let’s be real here. He wants to make himself happy FIRST and if Scarlet is also pleased, then it’s wonderful serendipity.
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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.