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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Excuse me while I go off on a rant here (shout out to Dennis Miller, y’all!).  Celebutart singers and actresses and sports figures ARE NOT ROLE MODELS.  I have a child and I have standing orders among my friends to shoot me if I ever start spouting nonsense like “Lady Gaga should put some clothes on while she sings, she’s my little girl’s role model!”  A child’s role models should be parents, relatives, scientists, teachers, etc.  Not some stupid pop singer.  I really wish we would stop all this morality policing among our celebrities.  They exist to look pretty and give us something to gossip about, not to model appropriate behaviour.  That’s the parents job!  Grrr, that shit drives me absolutely insane.

Back to the show.  So Juliette is feeling like shit and she takes it out on her mom.  I have no negative feelings about this whatsoever because CrackMom deserves whatever Juliette lashes out at her.  You can’t make up for being crack-absent from Juliette’s life for years by taking a shower and making some KD.  Juliette snaps and dumps CrackMom’s bag out on the floor looking for stolen goods and drugs.

Juliette doesn’t find any drugs but she does find a picture of Juliette as a baby, cuddled up and sleeping on Mom.

It’s very sad and naturally Juliette completely breaks down but I have to say, carrying around one tattered photo of one happy memory does not erase the YEARS of bad decisions and absent parenting. It’s not hard to cart around one photograph. Showing up every day in your child’s life is hard. Providing consistent, loving and cheerful parenting day after day after day is hard.

Gunnar wakes up next to Haley (aka Flirtypants). I’m so happy he’s gotten laid. Naturally, I want him to end up with Scarlett making music and babies together but for now, while Scarlett sorts her shit out, I want him to get some action. And Haley doesn’t irritate me, so YAY!

 

Juliette’ s publicist is prepping Juliette for her GMA interview.  She mentions previous celeb scandals: Winona and Lindsay.  Juliette understandly pops off.

“I didn’t rob Saks (thirty years ago).  I don’t have three DUIs” 

I completely agree with Juliette here. Winona had mental issues (and it was like, 10 years ago! Why are people still talking about it?), Lindsay has entitlement and drug issues. Juliette is not at all on their level of fuckupness. The thought just struck me…is this plotline some kind of subversive commentary on how ridiculous and out-of-control our coverage of celebrity has gotten? I know more about Lindsay Lohan’s legal triumpsh (‘cause seriously that trash bag should be in jail right now instead of stinking up New York or wherever she’s resting her pulled and ‘toxed head these days) than I do about Mitt Romney’s political platform and that is just plain fucked-up.

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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.

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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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