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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Or am I the only one who starting thinking of Lose Yourself?  Juliette caves and agrees to do an interview with GMA.

At the dinner of Uncomfortable Awkwardness and Rage Issues, Gunnar, Scarlett, Avery, Flirty and Record Company Lady sit around a table. Gunnar is telling the story of his arrival in Nashville. It’s typical hillbilly in the big city. Avery looks uncomfortable and irritated that the focus is not on him.

Scarlett says she just came out to Nashville to be with Avery and the writing was an accident. Avery no likey. And honestly, can you blame him? He’s been working for his big break to no avail and then his cream-puff girlfriend has Watty White land in her lap.

This is what it’s come to?  Listening to Barbie prattle on about her “process”?  FML.

Scarlett makes things worse by going on and on about how Avery is such a talented performer and his band plays at the 5Spot all the time…Avery grows increasingly uncomfortable. Because really, Scarlett, stop overcompensating. It’s emasculating.

I think this is the moment his balls actually shrivel up and fall off.

Dundundun…Rayna is at the Country Club with the rich hens when in strides A Woman From Teddy’s Past. Peggy Somethingorother. It doesn’t matter. What’s important is that Rayna hates her, she’s gorgeous and Teddy is visibly uncomfortable.

Avery and Scarlett have it out in the parking lot (why do I feel that so many emotional scenes on this show take place in the parking lot? America really is all about the car culture, eh?) Scarlett is hurt and confused and makes this face a lot.

Avery is understandably pissed and confused and frustrated. He doesn’t come out and say it but he does not like playing second fiddle to Cornpone Barbie.

He storms off to walk the rage off, leaving Scarlett to drive herself home.

Rayna and Teddy have a lovely little moment in their glorious kitchen. He tells her that she dazzles him. It’s a lovely sentiment but you can see Rayna’s regret and sadness churning around in her brain. She loves Teddy, I believe that. But he doesn’t dazzle her. He was safe and steady and her second choice.

Poor Teddy. Poor felonious, second-choice Teddy.

Scene shifts to Casa CrackMom. Juliette is morosely watching herself being trashed in social media as CrackMom whips up the most trailer park dish I have ever heard of: Pink Macaroni. It’s KD with ketchup and cream cheese and I’ll just be a moment while I go make some for myself!

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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.

  6. 6
    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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