Nashville Recap: Really hating on Rayna right now

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By SourCake | Friday, October 19, 2012 | 12:52 pm | 11 Comments
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Is everybody ready for the second episode of my new favourite show? Juliette is. She opens the epi by prancing around in shorty-shorts and a bustier last seen on Xina in the Lady Marmalade video. Tres trashy! Capping off the look is cowboy boots. Now, I grew up in Alberta so I know my cowboy attire. These things do not look good on anybody but a cowboy wrangling up some cattle. When chicks wear them, I just wonder about how funky their feet smell after being in them. Much is made about Juliet’s fans being preteens, yet her new song features lines like “You left your secrets in my bed.” Ummm, totally not appropriate for the target audience, amiright? That shit is disturbing.

Rayna is just trying to her kids to school on time, being superwoman and all, yet she’s stymied by Juliette again. All the roads are clogged because Juliette is shooting her new video.

See? I’m superwoman! World-famous country legend AND I take my kids to school myself. No nanny! And I’m raising my girls right – see the oldest in the dorky glasses and shirt buttoned up to her chin? And the adorable pinafored poppet in the back seat? Because I’m a mom first.

 

So, Juliette’s arc appears to be that she wants to be taken seriously as an artist. She is tired of people assuming she’s only good at singing pablum for infants. She wants more out of her career. I know I’ve said it before, but I really do love her character. She’s smart, she’s rich off her OWN money and she wants to challenge herself. She’s actually a pretty good role model in certain respects. Not sartorially but she’s not the she-demon I was thinking she would be after the pilot episode.
Rayna meets with her manager Bucky and mentor Watty to discuss next steps. Watty’s big idea, and it’s a pretty good one, is to change Rayna’s stadium tour to a small venue, intimate duo tour – just her and Deacon. Like the old days. When they were young and in love. And Deacon was stinking drunk or drug-addled.
Rayna and Teddy discuss the sitch in bed. Teddy is loaded down with papers and notes about his campaign. He tells Rayna he is not comfortable with the idea of her touring a deux with her ex-lover. She sasses back that she wasn’t comfortable with his decision to hop aboard Daddy’s train to Hell and run for mayor. He asks her, very sincerely, “Isn’t it enough that it’s important to me?”

 

“You’d think.”

 

Seriously, she says that. With a mean little smile on her face. What a bitch! Rayna, stop being like this! You’re making me hate you. And I don’t want to hate you, with your forty-something sexiness and your pants and your not-surgically-enhanced face. I’m begging you.
Watty is all up in everybody’s bidness as he makes a proposal to Scarlet and Gunnar. Write three songs together and he’ll produce the demo. Given Watty’s stature around Nashville, this is a huge endorsement and pretty much guarantees entrée into the real music scene.

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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.

11 Comments

  1. 1
    Joslyn
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    This is SO my new favorite show. I came to see if anyone was recapping it, and BAM! here it is. Thanks!

  2. 2
    crazy rooster
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    Is it possible to love both Rayna and julliette? Cause I do.

  3. 3
    ChaCha
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Being a woman of a certain age myself, I understand both Rayna and Juliette, and I’m siding with Rayna. Girls like Juliette with obvious mother issues are going to be as hateful as they can to women who are old enuf to be their mothers. Five’ll getcha ten that Juliette’s mother looks remarkably like Rayna, and remember, Juliette told her last week that her mother was a huge fan of Rayna’s. Enough reason right there for Juliette to unreasonably hate Rayna.

    As for the question of Rayna’s leaving Deacon while he was in rehab, it’s probably the best thing she could have done for him. Their relationship had to have become toxic by the time he went into treatment, and he needed to start his life over with a clean slate–easier said than done, but something he would have learned anyway in treatment. Whether or not she did that for him or to him is a question only time will tell.

  4. 4
    Joslyn
    Posted October 20, 2012 at 5:03 am

    They showed Juliette”s mom. She doesn’t look like Rayna, she looks like a standard issue Hollywood version of a crackhead from Central Casting, LOL.

  5. 5
    ChaCha
    Posted October 20, 2012 at 8:00 am

    When did they show Juliette’s mom? Did I blink????

  6. 6
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted October 20, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    They showed Juliette’s mom in the first episode, near the end. She was hitting up Juliette for cash and was indeed some kind of crackhead or methhead. She also had a loser boyfriend lurking, who seemed to be in the same situation.

    I think Juliette’s hate of Rayna has something to do with her mommy issues, but I think it’s way more of an issue that even though Juliette is a huge commercial success, Rayna has the kind of reputation, status and career that Juliette desperately craves. People will give Juliette money and be at her beck and call, but they laugh at her while they do it. Look at the sound team from last week…while Juliette was in the booth, they were joking about her voice. I bet nobody ever did that to Rayna. And then the guy on the shoot this week dissing her song, who actually deserved to be fired just for being stupid.
    Rayna also has Deacon, who may be intrigued with Juliette, but still has much stronger feelings for Rayna. And of course, is still going on tour with Rayna.

    Rayna was kind of a bitch this week, but I still like her. Oddly enough, I also like her dad. He reminds me of the snake from Rango lol. I don’t like her husband though. He’s such a little bitch, and addiction be damned, Rayna should not have left Deacon for him.
    Looks like Deacon is her baby daddy though. Wonder if he knows.
    Bet he doesn’t. Damn Rayna, why you gotta be such a bitch.

  7. 7
    caligal
    Posted October 20, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    I don’t think Deacon or Teddy have a clue about Rayna’s kid. I think Rayna found out she was pregnant very early in the relationship with Teddy, which coincided with the worst of Deacon’s addiction. She doesn’t trust Deacon to be a father, so she ships him off to rehab, and marries Teddy. Either Daddy figured it out or she confided in him, and that is how he knows.

    I am really enjoying this show. I grew up in Nashville, and I love all of the real places that are included, like the 5 Spot. Thanks for a great recap!

  8. 8
    April
    Posted October 21, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    I am Team Rayna. Juliette really has zero redeeming qualities to me.

    My take is Rayna figured the baby was Deacon’s but since he was an addict at the time, she knew he was not ready to be a father and so told Teddy the baby was his and married him. I can understand that motivation. Or she was not sure and just sided with the non addict and again, I can understand that too. I am sure the truth will somehow come out at some point on the show.

    Man this show is making me want to go buy some cowboy boots but I don’t know if I can pull them off. I do live in TN. I wanted some red ones like the chick in the Footloose remake but I am not nearly as tiny and cute as she is. I will let you guys know if I end up getting some. I have been trying to pay attention to what one wears with cowboy boots since I really have no idea. Rayna had a khaki skirt with some brown boots and Juliette had some booty shorts on with some boots. Both had the patterned shirts. Gah I suck at fashion!

    Can’t wait for Scarlet to dump dumbass and get with Gunner.

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    April
    Posted October 21, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Also hate her husband. He sucks. A lot. So much that I almost would not get mad at Rayna for cheating on him. Damn that is pretty bad too because I really hate cheaters.

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    Catelynn
    Posted October 22, 2012 at 9:19 am

    Like the other commenters, I still love Rayna. She obviously is not perfect but I think she is still very likable. I think it makes sense that she and Deacon broke up while he went to rehab. And it’s not like she just abandoned him in his time of need, she paid for the rehab.

    I don’t think anyone on the show is completely lovable or completely hate-able (except maybe Lamar). I think that’s why the show is so good – as people are in real life, no one is perfect, and no one is all bad.

    I certainly wouldn’t call Juliette a role model by any means though – yeah, she made her own money, but not on her own terms. She basically made it by whoring herself out to whatever is popular at the moment. However, she definitely is becoming more likable, and I’m interested in seeing where she goes.

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    juddfan
    Posted October 22, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    Sour cake, I love your tone here!!! I saw the pilot on an airplane, and I thought it was a good show, but I thought Rayna was a bitch, fer sure, and I felt bad for Juliette due to the mom thing. I wasn’t too clear about who was who with the guys, that little TV on up there in the aisle just wasn’t the best for detail.

    I get that an established country artist wouldn’t want to open or co-headline with a pop tart like Juliette, but in the real world, it would be great for both, rayna may find new fans and sales for her new album (or library) and Juliette may find some new fans in the older people. Would also be great for parents and kids to go together. therefore, I find Rayna ego driven and unable to adjust to not being the “it” girl, and that is why I loved this recap even more!!!

    I have a question for you fans of Rayna, do you know her from seeing her on Friday Night Lights? Seems everyone has seen that and has this undying love for Ms. Britton. I personally didn’t like her that much in American Horror Story. I think she looks great and all, but I just get “bitch” . . . even the poster, she’s looks like a total bitch, but my coworker says, “Did you see Friday Night Lights?” . . I’m just sayin’ and asking.

    I loved the duet with the waitress in the first episode, but that was the main thing I recalled . . . ya know, fly drunk and all that!!!

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