Nashville – Two Episodes for the Price of One!


By SourCake | | 10:23 am | 12 Comments
Posted in: Nashville, Recaps

 

It felt very real and I enjoyed every second. In a pained way because it was a hard convo to sit through.

Juliette is getting ready for her trip down the aisle. Sean couriers over his grandmother’s necklace. Juliette looks less than thrilled.

You mean, I have to wear this hideous thing? This marriage is over.

 I’m not too cool to admit I spent the last five minutes of the show in tears as montages rolled as Gunnar and Scarlett sang their new song Change Your Mind.

Here’s where we leave them:

Deacon: Consumed by regret and missed chances.

Scarlett and Gunnar: Slowly finding a new way forward.

Sean: Completely clueless about so many things but right now, that there is something deeply, fundamentally sad about Juliette as evidenced by her half of the church being bare.

Rayna and Teddy: Probably breaking up but trying to keep their shit together for the kids.

Juliette: Choosing herself.

And now, we’re in California!
Juliette and Rayna are announcing their big stadium show. Their tour is called (and I’m gagging even typing it) Red Lips and White Lies. Jesus Fucking Christ.

They both look delicious though.
Each of them gets a grilling from the reporters. Juliette because she stood Virgin up at the altar and Rayna because this is her first tour without Deacon. Although Rayna did get a bit of a softball. Juliette’s on edge because as Rayna effusively insists that this tour will be the best yet for her fans, she just has to pipe up with it will likely be the first Rayna show her fans have ever seen. The guffaws are totally forced and we get these reaction shots:

Point: Juliette!

I’m going to have to cut that bitch.

Awwwwkwwwward.

 Rayna videochats with the girls and then has a fruitless conversation with Teddy. He’s over it. Rayna looks defeated and confused.

I’ve said it before and I know I’ll say it again but this is what I want my forties to look like!

Gunnar practically twists himself in knots to avoid riding to Austin with Scarlett (Austin Scarlett! Even I know that name and I’ve never even watched one single episode of Project Runway). Too bad, he’s outwitted by Cornpone Barbie.

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12 Comments

  1. 1
    ChaCha
    Posted January 19, 2013 at 12:01 pm

    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.

  2. 2
    Tx gal
    Posted January 19, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    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.

  3. 3
    Snarkster Snarkster
    Posted January 19, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    @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.

  4. 4
    Cheergirl
    Posted January 20, 2013 at 6:09 am

    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

  5. 5
    April
    Posted January 20, 2013 at 10:18 am

    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.

  6. 6
    April
    Posted January 20, 2013 at 10:27 am

    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.

  7. 7
    crazy rooster
    Posted January 20, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    I don’t know if she is a ballerina but she is a classically trained vocalist, as in opera.

  8. 8
    caligal
    Posted January 20, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    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.

  9. 9
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 21, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    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.

  10. 10
    Snarkster Snarkster
    Posted January 22, 2013 at 12:16 pm

    @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.

  11. 11
    April
    Posted January 23, 2013 at 4:48 pm

    I don’t like Liam with Juliette. Just too cliche and also she should not get all the guys for goodness sakes!

  12. 12
    Tracey West
    Posted February 14, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    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!

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