> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fug the Show: Nashville recap, season 1, episode 17 - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-nashville-episode-17/ - Published: 2013-04-17T16:00:13.000Z - Updated: 2014-02-17T03:32:44.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:31 ## Hayden and Dante ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5024.xml) So, these two: having the sex. They decide to keep it a secret, because Hayden's mother is fragile. Which to me means she should not be here at all but in fact be home getting sober companionship in Hayden's living room, and learning to live in the world instead of on tour buses. But why be sensible if you can instead tempt a messy fate? Much more TV fun. ## Gunnar and Scarlett ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5029.xml) The Simple Folk are basking in the glow of Scarlett's signed record contract. She has the craziest rotation of semi-see-through slouchy shirts that may or may not be pajamas. That actually is the problem with her -- half of what she wears passes for some random thing she sleeps in, and not actual clothes for the world. ## Deacon and Stacey ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5030.xml) Deacon sends Stacey and Sue home, and gives her his housekey in case she wants to make herself at home. They make out a lot. He likes her. Although she's being VERY chill about essentially pausing her vet job to be his sexy-time dog-sitter. ## Lucky ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5031.xml) And yes, as we suspected, Lucky Spencer's new gig is as a roadie on Hayden's tour. Do we think this will end with him a) taking over for Deacon, b) playing his own music or giving her a song, or c) sleeping with her also? DECISIONS. ## Tami and Tandy ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5032.xml) I keep having to remind myself that her name is not ACTUALLY Tami, and that therefore Powers Boothe and Wife therefore were not super cutesy with the naming of their kids. Anyway, they have found out that Mr. Boothe has had a heart attack, and fled back to Nashville, pausing only long enough to call Teddy and ask him to kick Peggy out of their bed of sin. ## Hayden ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5035.xml) Hayden resents that people think they should cancel a sold-out Brooklyn show just because Tami's dad is a villain whose scheming puts stress on his ticker. Dante encourages her to go on anyway, and just play longer, expanding her set to promote the new record. She thinks this is a stellar idea. Mama pops up in the background to be like, "Um, hello, sober coaching anyone? I stole vodka from the mini-bar." What kind of sober companion doesn't make sure the mini-bar is cleared out of the hotel room? Anyway, she didn't drink it, but she wants to go home and take Dante with her. I thought she made this whole story up just so Hayden would give back Dante and they could leave, but they don't deal with that theory, so I guess... maybe it's irrelevant and since these aren't real people I shouldn't worry so much about something that is apparently not a plot point. Anyway, Hayden doesn't want to send Dante home because he's telling her ego-fluffing things that she wants to hear, so they send Mama off to meditate on her own or something. ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5037.xml) Deacon calls to check in on Tami, because he's the best. She's not there, so he leaves her a message. It's super brief, but he's so good that he fills all these very basic words with about 30 years' worth of history and of knowing how fraught Tami's relationship with Powers is, and... Charles Esten is great, is what I'm saying. ## Powers ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5040.xml) Powers, meanwhile, is doing a lot of in-bed growling. Tami gets mad at him because he appears to be his same old gruff and cranky self, goading her about the importance of her sold-out show. She gets prickly about rushing to be at his side. Oh, YOU TWO. A near-death experience is not the time to pull each other's hair. ## Hayden ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5050.xml) Hayden is wearing a sweater that appears to be underboob-a-licious. Perhaps that's why her band is struggling to master ten new songs in four hours. Deacon thinks it's because she's being unreasonable, and she should cancel the show or hire an opening act, and she starts going off about how Dante is the only person who is her friend or has her back or wants what's best for her, and that Dante agrees she should perform. Deacon is like, "Um, the sober coach? RIGHT." I love you, Deacon. ## Tami and Watty ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5051.xml) So, Tami and the music legend guy Watty -- who is her mentor; he's around so infrequently that I feel like it's possible no one remembers which one he is -- hug, because he's there for her. And it's very nice and sweet to everyone around... ## Powers Boothe ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5055.xml) ... except to Powers, who was taking a practice stroll, saw Tami and Watty, and BROUGHT DOWN THE THUNDER. ## Oops ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5066.xml) And the thunder brought down his heart rate. So he has to have surgery. Kids, the lesson here is that a jealous rage will make your chest explode. ## Tami and Watty ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5064.xml) And of course, the jealous froth is because Watty was the man that Tami's mother had her long-term affair with, and so that's clearly why Powers Boothe struggled with Tami's career and with Watty mentoring her. Are we going to find out HE is TAMI'S father? Are we going to have two paternity scandals? Surely not. Watty tells us a lot of blah-blah about how Tami's mother was a precious butterfly that could not be contained, and that the night she crashed her car, she was leaving Powers. For him, or just For The Road, I'm not sure. And I don't know what that means about the kids. I don't know much. But I know I love you. ## Hayden's bus ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5057.xml) So, this is where Hayden goes to hang out when she's having sound-check tantrums. It's her tour bus. There is food laid out, but y'all, i wouldn't touch it, because she was supposed to be on-stage for several more hours which means who the hell knows how long that's been sitting there. Anyway, Lucky is looking for her earpiece, and he knocks but nobody answers so he creeps onto the bus and starts searching for it. Most people would get on the bus and call out to the back, "Hello? Are you in here? I'm here to look for your earpiece," but Lucky is not most people. He is a novice career arsonist, so he doesn't have time to be careful. He just GOES. ## Oops, pt 2 ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5058.xml) And of course, Lucky stumbles upon Hayden hooking up with Dante, and Dante sees him, and Lucky freaks out and runs off the bus. Not like he knows who Dante is. I think maybe he was just nervous because he stood there a second too long while trying to figure out if that's Hayden or a body double. ## The Simple Folk ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5065.xml) As part of whoopin' it up, these two grab Cowboy Chris Carmack and hit the town. CCC makes her sing with him on-stage, and he's actually quite good at this, while Gunnar watches her sadly. Then Scarlett gets a call that she has a meeting at Edgehill Records the next morning, so they carry her drunk ass home and then Gunnar mopes to CCC about how he doesn't want to sing or play or even smile while his straw-haired girlfriend sings Vince Gill covers, because he's dead inside due to his brother being dead on all sides. ## CRASH ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5080.xml) So, CCC takes him out joyridin' and he floors the gas to beat the train across the tracks, because he says that getting over death requires touching it first. Maybe, dude, but getting over death ALSO requires NOT ALSO BEING DEAD. Gunnar is enraged and then of course wants to go again. I hope they have a train schedule or else that could be one long, cold wait in the cab of a truck. ## Deacon and Dante ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5068.xml) Naturally, Dante immediately fired Lucky, because he's turning into an asshole. Deacon finds out and tells Lucky to stay put, then reams Dante for being a douchelord. Dante doesn't care, presumably because douchelords are at least still lords, and dangles some tidbits about Deacon's past with Hayden that Hayden mentioned during therapy. Deacon is enraged by a lot of this behavior, as he should be, and works himself up into a righteous fizz. ## Dante and Mama ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5070.xml) Mama Hayden has been stuck in the lounge trying to journalize and medidate by herself all day. So when Dante checks in, she gets mad, and tells him she wants to go home. And THEN she tries to kiss him, which apart from him sleeping with Hayden, is a colossal misread of their situation given that he IS her sober coach and also they have no spark at all.. ## Mama Hayden, Hayden, Dante ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5071.xml) Hayden catches them and throws a massive tantrum. Mama tells her that she's taking up too much of Dante's time, which is unfair because she needs him and also she believes they have feelings for each other. Oh, honey. Your sad is showing. This of course exposes that Hayden and Dante are an item, and Mama storms off, sad, while everyone around them pretends that wasn't totally enjoyable. ## Peggy ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5076.xml) Peggy calls Teddy up to tell him that she loves him. This is the kind of phone call you usually make before you throw yourself off a bridge, or murder someone in the name of love, which is why I was concerned Peggy was going to wriggle out of her blackmail by injecting a syringe of Drano into Powers Boothe's IV bag. But no. She was just pining. ## The Heart Doc ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5077.xml) Powers' surgery went fine, but he had hemmorhaging, so they don't know what will happen when he wakes up. PLEASE be amnesia. ## Hayden ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5084.xml) Hayden goes on-stage, and it can't be a coincidence that she's doing her new material while dressed more like Tami, and hair-styled more like Tami. Is she going to *Single White Female* her? ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5086.xml) Hilariously, Deacon has SO had it with her that when she nuzzles up to him for this, he just stares flatly in the other direction, looking as bored as anyone in the world. While this is clearly unprofessional of him and I don't applaud that theoretically, I adore this I'M OVER YOUR BULLSHIT facial expression. ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5090.xml) So the two of them have a HUGE fight where he tells her that not only is he not loving being her bandleader -- she was a jerk about the show, the new songs, not cancelling in the wake of a family crisis -- but he isn't wild about being her friend, either, given that she's yakking about him to the sober coach she's sleeping with. Hayden spits that she doesn't need to cancel because this wasn't a family crisis because Tami isn't her family, and isn't his, either. "Yes she is," he growls. Because he's listened to a broken Tami leaving him an exhausted message on his voice mail, and he Heard Something, because he is the best. ## Gunnar and Scarlett ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5095.xml) How is it that Scarlett NEVER repeats anything but sweaters? How does she have so many different lounging clothes? This thing is a nightmare. I thought it was a sheet, or something, but it's actually a robe that she's chosen not to pull up all the way even though it has SLEEVES and her arms are IN the sleeves, and yes, it's ugly, but you're 95 percent dressed in it already so JUST COMMIT TO IT. ## Deacon and Tami ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5101.xml) So Deacon awesomely awesomes straight to Powers' bedside, where Tami is wilting. And the two of them reminisce like family, and then when he takes his leave she warmly tells him to give her best to Stacey and there is a moment -- or, maybe only a moment if you are me and are slightly infatuated with these two hooking up again -- and then he is gone. Sniff. BOTH these actors are great at bringing the weight of decades of baggage to every conversation, and the best part is, they characterize that aura slightly differently every time so that you get the sense of its depth and richness. ## Tandy ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5100.xml) And the princess gets her first taste of the throne. Or, as I like to call it, Powers Boothe's Power Booth. ## Scarlett ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5109.xml) Scarlett gets a champagne toast at Edgehill for being Tami's first new artist, but what she could really use is a hair guru and some gift cards. ## Gunnar ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5110.xml) Gunnar is playing and writing again, which thrills both his boss and Scarlett, who jokingly declares that maybe Cowboy Chris Carmack isn't a bad influence after all. Gunnar gives his wall a knowing look that suggests he's about to become a danger junkie, so... we have that to look forward to, in the "I'm not looking forward to that" sense. I'm concerned CCC is going to push Gunnar off the rails so that he can move in on Scarlett and try to break off a piece of her expanding list of contacts. ## Mama and Hayden ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5114.xml) Hayden packs her mother back to Nashville, with her assistant, to find an apartment and a FEMALE sober coach -- because I guess Mama often moves in on her male ones. Who's to say she won't do that with a lady, too, Hayden? She also announces that Dante is her new manager, which ought to end up with him inside a liquor bottle and her career swirling down the bog. But we'll see. ## Tandy ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5116.xml) And then Tandy goes and nut-punches Teddy with the reveal -- complete with phone records -- that Peggy was behind all the tabloid leaks and lies pertaining to the divorce. Powers is going to be so mad when he finds out that Tandy used his power booth to neutralize his blackmail efforts. Then again, maybe he won't even remember that he was doing it. Maybe he will wake up super chipper and clean as a whistle. ## Powers Boothe ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nimg_5112.xml) But before he does, Tami gives a weepy speech to Powers about how they've spent their whole lives at odds, and she wishes he'd told her about Watty and her mother and whatnot so that maybe she'd have understood him better, and that she's afraid they wasted all their time fighting. And THEN, of course, Powers opens his eyes, and parts his lips... and goes, "So wait, the WHOLE *St. Elsewhere* show was a dream about a snow globe?!?" No. He actually says nothing. SUSPENSE. Are you dead from it yet? 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