Nashville Recap: We Finally Hear What Teddy Did

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By SourCake | Monday, November 12, 2012 | 5:14 pm | 5 Comments
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Deacon agrees with me and he sends her off to get him some more water.
Deacon tries a tactic I personally don’t think is all that great. He basically hits Jolene in the mommy-bone. He says Juliette needs her mom and she needs her clean. While this is definitely true, I think for rehab to work and for an addict to stop using, it has to be for themselves. Not for their kids or their husbands or their parents or anyone else. It has to be for themselves, because THEY are tired of living that kind of life.

That’s a Gollum face right there, non?
Or maybe this one is better?

 

Ahahhaha! Gunnar comes in to confront Avery and he snarkily says “You’re welcome,” before Gunnar can even get a word out. In Avery’s mind, they should be kissing his ass because he took an hour out of his day slinging hash or selling pot or whatever it is he does to pay the bills to do this enormous favour for Gunnar and Scarlett.

Gunnar and I have the same thought: Asshole.

Avery picks up his gear and heads out only to run into Scarlett waiting for him on the stairs.

He just pushes past her out the door. He knows he’s crossed the line but he couldn’t help himself. And frankly, ask yourselves, if given the opportunity to show your stuff, what you truly think you were meant to be doing with your life, in front of the people who could make it happen, wouldn’t you? Even if it hurt the ones you love?

One of Juliette’s fleet of cars pulls up in front of some swank rehab. CrackMom tries to crack-weasel her way out of going in but Deacon just calmly steers her towards the door. A bottle of pain pills drops out of CrackMom’s pants but those are “just for my back.”
She gets the flopsweats and tries to flee.

You can’t make me do this. You’re not the boss of me.

Oh, poor Juliette that you had this trashbag mess of issues try and raise you.
Enraged and embarrassed and just basically angry at the world, CrackMom does the only thing she can do that will make her feel better: she takes it out on her daughter. With a nice slap to the kisser.

What? No Promises Malibu? You ungrateful slut!

I’m going to be honest with y’all. I am no stranger to the beast known as addiction. I’m sure some of you out there have struggled or are struggling with substance abuse issues. But this is no way to treat your child. I’m guessing Juliette’s backstory is that there was a lot of physical and emotional abuse from Jolene. And I would bet that Jolene felt entitled to do it because in her mind, Juliette is the cause of a lot of her problems.
We all need a palate cleanse. Let’s look at CrackMom’s Gollum face again:

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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.

5 Comments

  1. 1
    Lizbot
    Posted November 12, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    I am so impressed with the writing/acting/directing in this show. And I’m equally impressed with how you capture so many of the nuances in your recap as well.

    The one who surprises me the most is Hayden Panetiere. I find that her scenes that show her character’s vulnerability, especially the ones with her mother, just floor me and I feel for Juliette like she’s a real person. Took me a second after that slap to remember that it was fictional and she was just acting!

    I agree with you that Rayna was dishonest in how she dealt with Deacon’s call, but Deacon was falling into old habits and never should have called Rayna in the first place. But I’m guessing that the point they were making in this episode — especially with the whole letting go, theme –was that his addiction to drugs is mirrored in his addiction to Rayna. Maybe he’ll finally get some rehab to get over that.

    And I’m glad Scarlett finally showed some spine in this episode (ok she did in the last one too), but she’s gone from being one of my favourite characters to the one I like the least. I know she and Gunnar will eventually hook up, but I wish it could be him and Hailey as the destined couple instead. Hailey is so cool and Scarlett is just so annoying and wimpy. But of course we know how things will go eventually.

    Still — I’m loving this show. I never would have watched if not for these recaps, so thanks for that too!

  2. 2
    sari
    Posted November 12, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    I so disagree with you about rayna and deacon. It was SO OBVIOUS; he didn’t want her to use the song because she finally got rid of him. He just wanted to hurt her OR wanted her attention. For the past couple of weeks YOU have basically been saying rayna has deacon on a string and won’t let him go, last week she finally lets him go but you still think she is wrong. I think she was right not to bail deacon out of jail and she didn’t tell teddy it was deacon because it wasn’t important, she finally got him out of her life, why bring him up? Now if she had gone to bail him out and lied to teddy about it, I would understand your point. I don’t understand why you never give her the benefit of the doubt.

  3. 3
    SarahRita
    Posted November 13, 2012 at 9:10 am

    So I am only half way through the recap, but I just have to say that I cracked with your caption of teddy and his reptilian overlord being Lamar, awesome. So is it just me or does anyone find the sound of Scarlett’s voice (talking voice not singing voice) annoying?

  4. 4
    lawyergal
    Posted November 13, 2012 at 10:06 am

    Love, love, love this show. Several thoughts:

    - Having dealt with addiction in my family, and, somehow, addicts often end up in jail, Teddy’s failure to take Deacon’s call does not surprise me. I am sure there have been several such calls before, and that is a line in the sand. I have a certain family member who I have told, call everyone else, don’t waste your time on calling me the next time you get arrested.

    - While I don’t particularly like how Avery is acting, I do understand it. His world had turned upside down, and the reality is that Scarlett has changed her goals in life, and he hasn’t. You can be mad at him if you want for the relationship being as one-sided as it was, but the reality is that that was the relationship that Scarlett signed up for, too. I think that it is fair to give him more than half a second to adjust to this new reality, and I think his reaction is very realistic. And, I think in his own way, he is trying. That being said, I have no doubt that Scarlett will end up with Gunnar.

    - Absolutely positive that it was Lamar/Overlord having the pictures taken. He has been waiting all along to have something to use on Teddy, and now he has it. Teddy will win the election, and then he will have to do whatever Lamar wants becasue otherwise Lamar will leak the embezzlement, and the pics with Mrs. Paisley.

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    April
    Posted November 15, 2012 at 6:28 am

    Man if Juliette does not want her furniture I will take it. I loved how her house was decorated. I can febreze the crack mom out of it. Its still good its still good!

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