Oh Lamar, I’ve missed your stone-cold cuntiness!

You actually threatened your own daughter that you would reveal your own grandchild’s illegimatcy! To win a MAYORAL race. Let me ponder that for a moment. Gasmi, name one mayor (not your own). New York doesn’t count. It’s not the presidency, it’s not even the Senate. It’s a fucking mayoralty campaign. This dude is prepared to stab his own granddaughter so his son-in-law can be mayor. Holy shit.
Scarlett and Avery have their big show down. She gets in a few very cogent and bitchy points – 1. If he didn’t dip the dick into that cougar, he never would have gotten his big record deal (HA! Nice one). 2. If they had stayed together the only thing she would have done with her life is possibly become Mrs. Avery Barkley. Avery is so far up his own ass he thinks that is an awesome title to have in the world.

She looks so fierce in this scene. I love her all over again.
Then this happens:

Points to the writers for not having Gunnar magically walk in. But I’m generous enough to think she at least deserves one last goodbye bang.
Deacon and the Revel Kings are having a photo shoot for their tour.

I peed myself laughing looking at this screenshot. It might just be my new happy place.
Let’s deconstruct to savour:
Ape.
Mute.
D-bag.
Cadaver.
Blue Steel.
Scarlett and Avery bask in the afterglow of fair-to-middling sex. And I have to discuss a huge pet peeve:

TV producers! If your male character has just had sex, he should be naked and covered with a blanket. Not only are Avery’s jean’s done up, his belt is on! It looks ridiculous. I have to ask if it was the actor’s preference to be covered. Jonathan Jackson is conservative (veering in on wingnut – he supported Huckabee for Christ’s sake!) so maybe this was as naked as he was willing to get on camera. Whatever the reason, it looks stupid. And if it was Jackson’s choice – man up and take the pants off OR try a different show. Maybe you can do more of those Left Behind movies with Kirk Cameron?
Anyway, Scarlett soon discovers that Avery dumped the band and she loses the last shred of affection and respect she had for him.
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Re CrackMom: She’s in treatment, so I’m betting that she is clean…for now anyway. Having been in her shoes myself 27 years ago (and counting!), I gotta say that most women in very early recovery still look pretty messed up and we don’t help the look by doing our makeup in ways that don’t flatter us. We just don’t know any better yet. I recognized a lot of the sober-babble advice she was giving her daughter and thinking, “Yep, she’s a newcomer to recovery.” We just like to share what we’re learning as we trudge the road to happy destiny.
Sourcake, I totally agree with you about Deacon’s story line with the revel kings. I don’t like it at all. On the plus side, he looked incredibly hot this ep. Don’t know what he is doing, but it is really working for him.
@ChaCha – you nailed it. Congrats on 27 years – I’ve got 3 1/2 under my belt, and I was NOT a pretty picture in those early days!
My heart broke for Juliette in that last scene. I really wanted to Sean to fight for her and force her to talk about her emotions. But I do think that now she’s starting to realize that maybe her life isn’t as full and perfect as she thought it was.
I’m from nyc and I know Mayor Corey Booker from Newark. IDK if that counts though because that city is always on the news in our area for being terrible but Corey Booker is lie the most amazing Mayor ever! I fell in love after Hurricane Sandy happened and he let people who lost power go to his house to shower and use his electricity and ordered food for them while every other mayor (coughBloombergcough) just went around and talked a lot.
back to the recap
I am loving this show. It is very Friday Night Lights to me in that all the characters are realistically flawed and yet you just still love the hell out of them. Plus Connie Britton is always always always a vision. Hayden Pantierre always looks gorgeous too. I love the clothes on this show.
Oh did anyone else see the connection between Red Lips and White Lies with Taylor Swift’s newest album Red??? I definitely did and did not think that was an accident. The lettering is done the same and everything.
I don’t know if she is a ballerina but she is a classically trained vocalist, as in opera.
Nashville once had a mayor named Bill Boner (honestly, that was his name), and he was both engaged and married at the same time. I remember him being on Donahue. The alt-weekly newspaper gives out Boner Awards for all of the stupid things local politicians say and do.
Thanks for the great recaps.
I didn’t want to, but I definitely have a little crush on Liam.
He is so entertaining.
But I’d rather him have a thing with Juliette than Rayna….I know he seems to hate Juliette and he isn’t her favorite either (especially after that laying down on the stage stunt), but I feel like somewhere under all that disdain and mockery, there’s some attraction.
Or maybe I’m just projecting.
Also, as much as I like Juliette, I have no doubt that a fraction of her money was made on her back, especially because music is such a male-dominated industry and when we met her, sexuality was the first and most finely honed tool in her arsenal for getting what she wanted. Sexuality and bitchery, but mostly sexuality.
Anyway, it’d be naive to think that she made it from the trailer park to where she is now without spreading em for one VIP or another.
Tebow was right to seek an annulment…J. only married him to get back at megabitch and to snatch his virtue.
And I think Crackmom looks way better after a little bit of time in rehab.
Her skin and eyes are brighter, and her hair is actually brushed. Plus she makes sense when she talks.
I think for Lamar, it doesn’t matter what the prize is; he just doesn’t like to lose and will do whatever it takes to make sure that he doesn’t.
Rayna’s kids could ask him to help them with a lemonade stand, and he would arrange drive-by shootings at all the other lemonade stands in the neighborhood. Fuck that, all the other lemonade stands in Nashville would get shot-up. Just to make sure his endorsed lemonade stand wins.
So happy that Deacon is no longer a Revel King.
I hated those fuckers.
@chaosbutterfly – I hadn’t considered Liam with Juliette, but now that you bring it up, I am so on board. I think he might be good for her – at the very least he would call her on her shit.
I don’t like Liam with Juliette. Just too cliche and also she should not get all the guys for goodness sakes!
Hi,
I’m glad we were able to make you pee yourself laughing.
I enjoyed my brief time on the show and as far as being called an Ape by you,
I’ve been called much worse!