You leave your keys and get out. More of this Scarlett, please!
To get her revenge on Avery and to help out the Avery Barkley band, she performs with them. She rocks the hell out of the joint. I love it. And I must commend Claire Booth on her acting choices. Scarlett is all awkwardness, arms out akimbo and slightly out to rhythm. Perfect choice for her character but it must kill the actress as she is actually a trained ballerina (or so I remember reading somewhere. If I’m wrong, I’m sure y’all out there will correct me).
Juliette goes to visit CrackMom and the junkie is less than thrilled about Juliette’s wedding news. Now…don’t get me wrong. She didn’t say anything that wasn’t true. Juliette has a huge gaping wound in her heart that she tries to ignore by using sex and work. The marriage is doomed because Juliette is fundamentally unhappy and feels undeserving. But honestly, WTF does CrackMom know about it? She’s been an absentee parent for most of Juliette’s life – she has no real idea who Juliette is as a person. And then she makes all these pronouncements like she’s goddamn Buddha.

And I think she looks just as crackie as she used to. This bitch ain’t clean.

Hailey confronts Gunnar and tells him some hard truths. Especially that Scarlett and Gunnar are each better together than they are on their own. They need each and what they create together needs to be more important than any bullshit between them. And also that she is a professional who is not letting her failed relationship with Gunnar get in the way of her career goals.
Rayna comes tearing into the campaign office and tells Teddy all about Lamar’s grand threat to reveal Maddie’s parentage.
What? It’s not that big a deal. Making my young, vulnerable granddaughter question her place in her family and her parents’ love for her, what’s the harm in that? It’s called character building.

Teddy spits fire. And Rayna sees him in a new light.
Predictably, Deacon and whatshername end up in bed. She does reveal a tantalizing tidbit…

Fourteen years ago, Deacon and a friend were getting blitzed and something dreadful happened. I’m assuming car wreck with the friend dying. And that is what spurred Deacon into rehab.
Rayna and Teddy have an adult conversation. It’s discussions like these that need to take place on tv more often. No screaming, no swearing, no hiding real feelings behind lies and omissions. Just two grown-ups who love each other but are unhappy.

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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!