Nashville Recap: The One Where Rayna Completely F-cks Up Her Life

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By SourCake | Monday, November 5, 2012 | 6:00 am | 6 Comments
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Heyyy, I have a totally crap idea that no one is going to call me on. You in?

 “Political affliations aside, she needs a guitarist.” Uhhhhh, this is fucking Nashville. You can’t find another guitarist to strum some simpleton song for half an hour? What kind of manager are you?????  And the way both actors play it, you can almost sense that they don’t find this plot development believable. There’s a lot of eye rolling and heavy sighing going on. Whatevs. Deal’s done and Ex Lover Deacon is going to be up alongside Rayna the politician’s wife on one of the most important nights of Teddy’s mayoral career.
Aiee! Coleman is Deacon’s sponsor. Didn’t see that one coming and I love it. I think Coleman is my favourite character. He just seems like the most decent, upstanding, realistic character on the show. He’s probably not the most interesting but he definitely is the most likeable.

You can’t tell me you wouldn’t want to have coffee and shoot the shit with this guy.

I know the screenshot is shite but look!  Darius “Counting Crows” Rucker.  That’s Nashville authenticity right there, folks.  

Scarlett and Gunnar are getting shown around at their record company. Gunnar thieves a yogurt from the fridge and encounters Flirtypants PA.

You may think we’re talking about yogurt but really we’re talking about my vagina and how you can have access to it whenever you feel the need.

Scarlett, for all her puppy dog slavering around Avery, does not like Gunnar’s attention being taken away from her. Not nice, Ms. Scarlett. Not nice at all.

Bucky and Rayna are going over arrangements for the country club gig. Bucky fills Rayna in on Deacon’s agreeing to play. She says she doesn’t think it’s a good idea but there is a gleam in her eyes and a glow on her face that tells me she is titillated by the idea. Because really, isn’t performing with your exlover (the man you just had a filthy erotic dream about) in front of your husband as he is trying to work, just like having sex with him in front of everyone? She gets to cuckhold her husband in front of all the people that teased her in high school while still looking like Princess WonderWoman by using her celeb clout to help Teddy get financial support.

She’s got some kind of subtle, sadistic gleam about her, non?

Back at Juliette’s House of Delusion and Crack, Goodman is filling Juliette in on how far her career as sunk. For one bottle of nail polish, Juliette is no longer invited to present at the CMAs, all the late night chat shows are making jokes about her, she’s going to be the butt of SNL’s opening sketch. Goodman seems to think this is terrible. Well, my take is this: Yes, it’s bad that that the CMAs have rescinded her presenting invite. That’s a big deal. The other two things…well, doesn’t Leno, Fallon and Letterman make jokes about celebs all the time? Isn’t that kind of their schtick? And does anyone even watch SNL anymore? I thought it was completely unwatchable at this point. Anyways, the publicist schools Juliette. This is Juliette’s make or break moment.


 You’ve got to formulate a plot or  end up in jail or shot/Success is your only motherfucking option, failure’s not/Mom, I love you, but this trailer’s got to go/You cannot grow old in Salem’s lot/So here you go it’s your shot.

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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.

6 Comments

  1. 1
    reality
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Thanks for recapping this show! I too was blown away by the first episode, but then have just become a little not as blown away (still good though). Wasn’t there an earlier allusion that one of Rayna’s kids might be Deacon’s, and no one knows…?

    Also thanks for enlightening me about the Deacon/Teddy tenseness. I know he is her ex, but since he’s still in the band, thought people had accepted and moved on..I thought the tenseness was about Coleman being his friend and he doesn’t back Teddy.

    When this episode began with Rayna/Deacon in bed, I thought it was real and I had missed the prior week’s episode.

  2. 2
    April
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    Hubby and I talked about this and said You know beautiful famous people are EASILY forgiven. All she had to do was show remorse. If she got on tv and cried and said her mom is a crackwhore and its so hard boo hoo hoo, everyone would love her all the more for it. She really chose the wrong tactic. Maybe I should be her publicist too.

  3. 3
    April
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    I actually was in love with the dress Rayna was wearing to sing at the country club. It was so Marilyn Monroe. I show a lot of skin too though so it didn’t bother me. If you got it flaunt it!

  4. 4
    Exene
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    Agree re the gray polish (although it looked blue on my screen)– looks cute on my sixteen year old and her friends, but on Rayna and women her age (me) — not so much.

  5. 5
    Peanut29
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    While I rarely post anything, I guess it is because I have a completely different take on this show and the relationships.

    I don’t blame Rayna for all the hurt that has fallen out from their relationship. If anything, I would say that the majority of the hurt is due to Deacon hurting himself, as addicts often do. Rayna left the relationship because of Deacon’s substance abuse, it hasn’t been shown if she was enabling him or not, but at the very least their relationship was destructive to some level for both of them. Her decisions have been clear and upfront, as far as the show has shown us so far. She left, he chose to stay in the band, yes she also consented. But he is the one that was willing to sit through the pain everyday of watching her be with her husband. I have never seen any gleam of her liking to “string” him along, if anything I have seen pain from her. He’s her best friend (it should be her husband, but it’s not) and seeing him hurt and also hurting from them not being together hurts everyone around. Should she have just ended the whole sham a long time ago? Yes, but why is it just up to her. He should have left too. Teddy should have asked for it earlier.

    Also, Darius Rucker is of Hootie and the Blowfish fame and then went on to make solo country albums, but apparently gets very pissed if people call him Hootie.

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    Lizbot
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    @Peanut29 – I agree with you about Deacon — he has choices. But Rayna pretty much admitted that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too — to hold on to Deacon but keep him at arms length while she keeps the image of a good wife and mother (in the scene after they sang together at the Bluebird). She basically admitted that she messed up and that she should have let him go a long time ago. I actually see her as being the most selfish out of the whole bunch, and I think she knows that. That’s why she can’t stand the thought of Deacon going off with Juliette. You can be sure that when she finds out that they are sleeping together that she’s going to get all jealous and possessive.

    At the same time, Deacon is a grown man and he could have walked away. But I wonder how easy it would have been for him to find a gig in another band after rehab, but I don’t know. I think Rayna makes up for her father’s neglect by holding on to two men in her life who will basically put up with anything to stay in her orbit.

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