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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Scarlett and Deacon have lunch and Deacon gives her some very good advice. Avery needs to grow up and deal with Scarlett’s success. I love how he doesn’t try to make excuses for Avery’s behaviour, just plain says – He’s gotta keep up or get left behind. That is great advice and I hope Scarlett takes it and stops feeling so bad about her record deal.

Backstage at the country club. Sigh. How far has Rayna fallen? She might as well be singing at a Denny’s opening. I really do like her dress but would it have killed her to add sleeves? It’s just there is a lot of tanned cleavage going on already…a three-quarter length or even a cap sleeve might have added some balance.

See? So pretty, perfect for a third wedding. With a little arm coverage.

Juliette smiles smugly through her contrition interview and then ruins it all by saying Haters Be Hatin’, y’all. Robin Roberts then brings up CrackMom. Juliette tears off her microphone and announces that the interview is over. This segment really ticked me off. First, as stated above, I don’t think shoplifting a bottle of nail polish is of national importance. Second, I don’t like how the show seemed to imply because Juliette blew off the criticism and didn’t beg for forgiveness for the terrible transgression of swiping a bottle of polish, Robin nailed her with the question of CrackMom. Like, if Juliette had played good girl, the question about CrackMom’s arrest never would have come up. Or am I crazy and that wasn’t implied?


Yeeeeah, that went as well as anyone could have expected given Juliette’s attitude and behaviour up to this moment.

 Deacon comes rushing in, casually attired in jeans and a button-down. Lamar immediately starts in on him, prompting him to say he’s only doing this stupid gig as a favour to Rayna. And Lamar, being the epic prick he is says “And why would you begrudge this tiny favour for a family who’s carried you on its back for twenty years.” WOW. That is some ice-cold cuntiness from Lamar, non?
Predictably, Deacon loses his shit.

One would hope, that in the background, Bucky is at least thinking “Well, shit, this was one of my worst ideas ever.

 Deacon, feeling attacked, turns it around and implies that the Family Jaymes (or whatever the fuck their last name is) has been carrying Teddy for the last two decades. Niiiiiiice. Let’s bring Teddy into this pissing contest.

 

 The argument quickly degenerates into name calling. Teddy gets a mean little dig in asking if Deacon is drinking again.

I love this shot because it looks like Bucky is trying to sneak away.

 Look at that magnificent reptilian bastard!

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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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