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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He just wants them to stay the same couple they’ve always been. Scarlett replies “You mean me writing poems and keeping them to myself.” She’s really angry, her voice is trembling and I’m all “Sister woman, sing it!”

And I think it slowly dawns on Avery how badly he has hurt Scarlett.

I think I saw a tear glistening in those eyes.

Rayna is woken up by her cell buzzing. It’s Deacon calling from jail. She declines to accept the charges.

Now, I get that Rayna is trying to move on and put Deacon behind her. That’s a totally legimate and laudable goal. But c’mon, don’t you think that if he just gave into her about that song for the commercial, she would have taken his call and bailed him out of jail? And if she truly is trying to make a fresh start and a renewed commitment to her marriage, why didn’t she tell Teddy that it was Deacon calling from jail and she refused to take the call? That she essentially is letting him rot in jail? That seems like it would be a good way to prove to Teddy that she is serious about cutting that cord between her and Deacon. But nooooo, she lies and says no one was on the other end. I’m sure in her mind, she was telling him the truth because the way she is thinking, Deacon is nothing to her anymore.

Gunnar tells Hailey he wants their relationship to be “complicated”. It’s code for “I don’t want to bone Scarlett, you’re my girl.” They end up boinking in the music room. I wish I could get laid where I work. I mean, I could…but no one there looks or sounds like Gunnar. Wah-wah.

Deacon calls his second choice, Juliette, to pick up his tired ass from jail.


 No one looks that good the morning after a bar brawl.

Teddy and Lamar are strategizing. They are planning a negative, attack campaign. Teddy acknowledges that Rayna is going to lose her shit over it and Coleman is not going to take it lying down. Lamar couldn’t care less. He wants to win.

So does Teddy.

Of course, this unquenchable thirst to win has absolutely nothing to do with the fact Coleman wiped the floor with your pale, pasty ass during the debate and he said some mean things that were true but that you just can’t deal with.

Rayna records her solo songwriting effort and Bucky lurves it.  So does she.  Rayna is flush and gorgeous with success.

This is the Rayna I love. Confident, happy, proud. More of this, please!

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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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