Nashville Recap: There’ll Be No TearDrops Tonight

Oh, this is definitely the show of surprising returns!  Gunnar’s white-power-prag brother has shown up.  This cannot be good at all.  Not for Gunnar, not for Scarlett and not even for poor Billy Prag.

Yeah!   I know!

I wonder if all these surprising returns means we’ll finally see Lamar again.  I miss that greasy snake more than I can express.

Teddy calls Rayna to tell her he’s decided they should tell the girls tomorrow about their impending divorce.

Where did you grows these balls that make you think you’re calling the shots in this relationship?

Rayna is pretty thrown and she almost freezes when she starts to perform.  She pulls it together but not before Bucky, Deacon and Juliette all notice that something is just not right…

Juliette is on top of the world – her slightly revamped show has been getting some positive attention and now she wants to incorporate more grown up elements.  Goodman skulks in the back like some perv and rolls his eyes and looks pretty shifty.

And what. The. Fuck?  Is that a denim blazer????  County fair huckster indeed.

This is definitely the show of the surprising return!

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Hailey wants to sign Avery to a co-publishing deal at her record company.  She’s so brash and ballsy.  I love her.  And she’s got good instincts.  Provided she doesn’t fall into the sack with Avery.  That’s a deal-breaker for me.

Teddy and Peggy have a little late-night chat.  He tells her that he asked Rayna for a divorce.

I wonder if Peggy is going to go off Teddy now that he’s free.  She might be the type to only want what she can’t have.

Ruh-roh!  Maddie has overheard Teddy and Peggy’s conversation…

Liam has convinced Rayna to put her cares behind her for one night or drinking, dancing and the unspoken invitation of some good old lowdown banging.

She looks like a piece of Real Housewife trash in that hat. 

What a fucking asshole.  Goodman pulls Juliette’s band/entourage together and tells them first that Juliette has great “suggestions” for the next part of her tour but that they are all to come to Goodman first.  This is insurrection and treason and I say, off with that puffy-haired head.

Have you ever looked so limp-dicked, Goodman?  Or should I start calling you Glen?

Rayna and Liam are still stumbling around the dive-bar dance floor.

They flee the country bar after Rayna was finally recognized – I call shenanigans on that – and head back to the hotel.  And then this happens: