> ## 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 2, episode 2 - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-nashville-episode-2-2/ - Published: 2013-10-03T21:00:05.000Z - Updated: 2014-02-17T03:30:32.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:35 ## Juliette and Conan ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6478-1024x768.xml) We begin with a Conan O'Brien cameo. He's interviewing Juliette about her new album, and is totally charmingly Conan, and so Juliette ends up taking him back to her dressing room and nailing him like a two-by-four. ... No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Juliette ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6477-1024x768.xml) And then Conan whips out pictures of her tribute to Rayna, and starts yakking about her, and Juliette makes this face. And then she climbs over the desk and throttles him while security ambushes her. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Juliette ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6487-1024x768.xml) And THEN Juliette makes THIS face, which is exactly the one I pulled when I got a load of her outfit. I LOVE that she always goes with office-like updos and suits whenever she shows up at the label, because it's so transparent of her -- she is so clearly desperate to be seen as a businesswoman. But that thing looks like a doily that dressed up as Chanel for Halloween. Juliette is making this face at her Smug, Hot-Ass Boss, whom she immediately stabs with a letter-opener when she doesn't like what he has to say, thus spraying her suit with blood that not even Thansgiving-strength Oxy Clean can get out. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Oliver Hudson as Jeff ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6486-1024x768.xml) SHAB, aka Jeff, is played by Oliver Hudson -- yes, Kate's brother/Goldie Hawn's son -- and he is making this Smarmy Boss Face for the entire episode. He is the new boss at Edgehill Records, which got sold and fired Marshall; and he's telling Juliette that, boy, she sure is great, but darnit, her tween fans don't like her new album and she's selling below Rayna James' greatest hits, and that he's not trying to do anything other than tell her the facts and he's so delighted to meet her. He delivers this with the smarmy elan of a man who is really saying, "What we want from you is glitter lotion and hot pants." And then he rolls up a copy of her album cover and smokes it. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Rayna ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6474-1024x768.xml) Rayna is home from her coma, and the show does us the courtesy of de-awesoming her hair just a little so that this doesn't turn into a commercial for the wonders of dry shampoo. Rayna accepts a hug and the promise of live-in help from Teddy, and then, on account of her traffic-accident head injury and subsequent coma, immediately starts acting just like Jessica Wakefield and starts screwing over all her loved ones and making out with Bruce Patman (who is obviously Oliver Hudson in this scenario) while Tandy stands by acting boring and accepting sympathy but no sympathy tongue. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Rayna and Maddie ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6493-1024x768.xml) Maddie is still being a pill, by the way. I mean, I get it. But instead of them having a meaningful conversation about how this all happened, here is how it goes: Rayna says, "Well, let's figure out all this together," and Maddie says, "You lied and Deacon's my drunk father and Dad isn't my father, so I'm pretty clear on it all," and Rayna is like, "Well, but let's figure out where to go from here together," and Maddie storms away, and Rayna is like, "Well, but let's figure out what this all means together," except that she is alone because she refuses to say anything of consequence to her daughter. The payoffs of this Deacon reveal have been SO FRUSTRATING and non-existent. Maddie should be curiously, even morbidly so, going to SEE Deacon. Rayna should be honest with Maddie about how it all went down. Instead they're trying to make us feel sorry for RAYNA by having Maddie flounce around pulling faces. And THEN Maddie comes back in and pulls Rayna's hair and steals a bottle of bourbon and announce she's going to go hang out with her new dad. No. But WOULDN'T THAT HAVE RULED. ## Scarlett and Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6499-1024x768.xml) These two aren't getting along so well, either. Deacon has traded drowning in booze for drowning in self-pity. He's snapping at Scarlett and acting like a jackhole, prompting her to ask if he's still okay with her working for Rayna. He is. But he won't go to the doctor to get his hand looked at because he's a friggin' martyr, so Scarlett forcibly takes him, and he reaches over with scissors and says he is going to cut off an inch of hair every time she falis to enunciate. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Rayna and Teddy ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6497-1024x768.xml) These two are decidedly snugglier. And then Teddy whips out a Land of Nod catalog and tells Rayna he needs to buy a crib for his new offspring. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? (And isn't that going to come up soon?) ## Gunnar and Scarlett ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6483-1024x768.xml) Things here? Frosty. He's being nice and she's primly refusing to engage with him at all, presumably because of Emotions, but whatever. Scarlett meets up with Rayna and Cowboy Chris Carmack for their pow-wow with Oliver Hudson, who tells them that Rayna's Highway 65 label is the future of the company. But when he meets Scarlett, he dismissively says, "Nice dress," with a tinge of sarcasm. And he has NO IDEA. Oliver, that IS a nice dress compared with EVERY SINGLE THING SHE HAS EVER WORN. So Scarlett finally makes use of her ropy, frayed hair extensions by braiding them into a whip and smacking him in his smug face. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## CCC ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6491-1024x768.xml) Meanwhile, CCC plays a show, and when he's done, he finds Oliver Hudson in the audience. Oliver tells him that he ACTUALLY thinks CCC, who hasn't yet signed on the dotted line with Rayna, should switch over to Edgehill Records and get the full force of their might behind him because he's The Next Big Thing. CCC grabs him by the cheeks and plants a kiss on him so hot that everyone in the room unwittingly gets a facial. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Oliver and Brent ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6494-1024x768.xml) Brent is the name of CCC's former lover, and lo and behold, he is also Oliver Hudson's head of PR or somesuch contrivance. So now CCC is scared that there's a smoking gun waiting to go off if he makes the wrong choice. This leads to a threesome so hot that all the wallpaper in Nashville spontaneously peels off. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## CCC and Gunnar ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6501-1024x768.xml) This is for you, Fug Nation. CCC wants to talk to Gunnar about his dilemma, and starts to open up about Brent, but Gunnar doesn't want to hear it. He's mired in writer's block and so CCC's fancy problems about having too many record labels after him are just not to his liking. CCC reaches over, grabs Gunnar's guitar, and rams it down his throat. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Gunnar and Zoey ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6513-1024x768.xml) This is Scarlett's friend, over to pick up any non-burned furniture. She reminds Gunnar that heartbreak is the best creative force there is, and blah blah blah Scarlett is not going to like it when they make out -- whenever that is. Gunnar tells Zoey that it's nice to talk to a girl whose hair does not look like it died ten years ago. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Brent ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6515-1024x768.xml) Brent pops by to assure CCC that it's in BOTH their best interests to keep his secret, and requests that CCC stop threatening to punch him every time they see each other. Also, can we talk about how when we saw Brent last year, it seemed like he was maybe a waiter in Nashville, and now Oliver Hudson is claiming he is a marketing genius whom he lured out from Los Angeles? The Angel of Continuity sweeps through and bitch-slaps both of them. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Juliette ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6505-1024x768.xml) To goose album sales, Juliette lets CMT shoot footage of her returning to her trailer park in Alabama, where she makes sure to wear Half-Pint braids and a shirt that looks like something Scarlett would really like as sofa upholstery. She turns to the CMT host and says, "Being here, in these pants, reminds me of my first feminine itching problem," before pulling out a tube of Gyne-Lotrimin. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Yikes ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6510-1024x768.xml) CMT digs up the woman whose trailer Juliette would take refuge in when her mother was high/gone/having sex/whatever. And Juliette is thrilled to see her, but the walk down memory lane clearly also bothers and upsets her, especially when this rather ravaged-looking person goes all Devil's Snare on her and weeps onto her shoulder. Juliette snaps and uses a martial-arts throw to free herself. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Quilt of Shame ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6509-1024x768.xml) The woman has apparently been quilting madly, making a tribute to Baby Juliette that makes Juliette deeply uncomfortable. She calls cut and makes Avery take it -- Avery, by the way, is there ostensibly so they can write on the plane, but mostly because she apparently likes him in the same way she liked Deacon. Minus the sex, so far. But as much as Juliette hates being called out on her shit, she also somehow likes keeping people around who will call her out on her shit. Avery rips off their clothes and makes Juliette have wild sex with him on top of her baby pictures. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? (Except for how it's creepy.) ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6521-1024x768.xml) Speaking of tributes, Deacon wanders over to the one by the road where they were almost killed. His doctor told him that he may never gain full hand function again, and he refuses to take pain meds, so he insists she put it in a cast to minimize the pain instead of starting physical therapy. He's being a pill, basically. He calls Rayna and she comes, and then, almost cheerfully, tells him that they can never go back and they have to move forward, blah blah blah, and she doesn't seem that interested in his hand pain. Which is rich considering she WAS driving. Yes, he was hammered, but honey, you didn't have to take your eyes off the road. Deacon tells her that she's ruined his life and HE'LL SEE HER IN COURT. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6525-1024x768.xml) Instead, Rayna returns the engagement ring Deacon once gave her, eons ago, which she'd always kept in the hope that she'd need it someday. He hurls it into the flowers and then turns toward the camera and walks toward it singing "Back in Black" by AC/DC. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Rayna ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6526-1024x768.xml) And Rayna, high on her decisions to Do Only Good, does two things: 1) When she finds out Will is being lured away, she gives the world's most supportive talk to him, promising not to hold a grudge but also indicating that she wants to help him grow as an artist and that Edgehill won't want that; and 2) She tells Teddy to move out because it's confusing for everyone and they have to Move Forward and whatnot. At LEAST with Will, I kind of wish she'd displayed a little cunning. But at least she and Teddy make a sex tape real fast before he leaves. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6529-1024x768.xml) Deacon decides to sell all his guitars. Scarlett snaps and snarls at him that he's acting like a total dick to her and to everyone, just like his own father, and pushes him to tell her why he fell off the wagon. So he does, and then chokes that he missed out on Rayna and his kid and he has NOTHING NOW and NOBODY. And then he crawls into a corner and starts singing Whitney Houston songs. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Gunnar ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6535-1024x768.xml) Gunnar writes a song all about his biggest heartbreak: his dead brother. (It's an okay song, but also sort of clumsy . T-Bone, I miss you.) Two extras in the front row, three notes into the song, start nodding and telling each other what awesomeness it is. Too soon, extras. Too soon. Also, let's talk about Sam Palladio's hair here. It is a fluffy bouffant. I think he stole some of Scarlett's hair product before she left -- the top of her head always did have weird volume the rest of her never did. Anyway, CCC hears this and decides Gunnar is a brilliant ARTIST, whereas he is just a good performer of other people's words. He then tattooes Gunnar's face on his right buttock. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Juliette and Avery ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6536-1024x768.xml) Juliette is triumphant because her documentary worked, and her single is No. 1 on iTunes now. She and Avery decide they're friends, officially, and not just in a weird unspoken passive-aggressive way, and then Avery braids her hair. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Aubrey Peeples ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6541-1024x768.xml) And then something amazing happens: SOMEONE FROM SHARKNADO GOT A JOB. This girl [played Ian Ziering and Tara Reid's daughter in the movie](https://gofugyourself.com/fug-the-fromage-sharknado-07-2013?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and I'll be honest, I'm not sure I thought she'd ever work again. But she is much better in this, so MAYBE -- I'm going out on a limb here -- the material in "Sharknado" just wasn't up to scratch. Anyway, she plays Layla, the runner-up on an "American Idol"-type show, and Oliver Hudson smugly points out that she's so hot with tweens right now. Juliette responds by diving inside her with a chainsaw and carving her way out. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Scarlett ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6543-1024x768.xml) WHAT HAS SCARLETT DONE TO HER HAIR. The front is pulled back, and then, of what's left, three-quarters of it is in a ponytail on one side of her head, and the rest is... not. She looks like a drunken Orlando Bloom fan who wants to wear the flesh of Legolas. On her way out to stalk him, she pauses to tell Deacon that he's lame. And a coward. And that it's too bad about Rayna and Maddie, but MAN UP, FOOL. She's right. Deacon decides the only way to cope is to saw off his hand. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6547-1024x768.xml) OH WAIT THAT IS WHAT HE DID. ## Deacon ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6551-1024x768.xml) Just kidding. Instead, he sawed open his cast, then decided to try playing the guitar. Scarlett shamed him into self-respect. He writes her a song called "Elvish Presley Fixed Me In My Loathing Room." No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Edgehill Party ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6546-1024x768.xml) At the Edgehill Party, Rayna finds out that CCC has signed with Edgehill. He tells her it's because he's not a real artist, just a performer -- so basically he's Miley Cyrus here, without the rubber panties -- and Rayna disagrees but wishes him well. Although not without a word of caution. I wish she had been tougher with him, since she found out not from him, but by watching Oliver Hudson walk away from her to loudly greet CCC as Edgehill's newest hire. Rayna is bummed but she looks so great in pants and massive wedges that she decides to get drunk and go on a sex bender. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Juliette ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6549-1024x768.xml) Juliette brags to Oliver that her single is No. 1, and then of course Layla comes out to perform and Oliver reveals that HERS just hit the top spot on iTunes. iTunes! For all your tweeny needs. Juliette is understandably delighted by this, and as she stands there modeling hideous shapewear under her green lace, she plots to burn down the entire estate. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Rayna and Juliette ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6550-1024x768.xml) "Oh hey, girl. Should we snap that kid like a twig?" "On the count of three." No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Juliette ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6552-1024x768.xml) And THEN Layla plays one of Juliette's songs, and Hayden gives more Awesomeface. And that dress continues to give Hellmouth vibes. And then a demon actually comes out of it and gnaws off Oliver Hudson's ears. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Oliver Hudson ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6554-1024x768.xml) Oliver Hudson feels like he's won, so he smarmily toasts Rayna when she catches his eye, and then takes off his shirt. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ## Rayna ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6555-1024x768.xml) Rayna who has just decided she's not wanted at Egdehill and maybe it's time to go out on her own, toasts back with a smile. Also she has put ricin in his Champagne. No. But wouldn't that have ruled? ... Well, no, she can't poison him until they've had hate sex. But THEN. [Fug the Show: Nashville recap, season 2, episode 2Hayden's facial expressions this week are amazing, and she totally owned this hour. This show's ratings are going down, though, and I can see why: When you started out about a country queen threatened by a young up-and-comer, it's kind of repetitive to turn season two into Country Queen And Young Up-And-Comer Threatened By ANOTHER Up-And-Comer. It also managed, again, to suck me in and then spit me out 42 minutes later feeling like there wasn't too much movement, and that Rayna's character still is officially not allowed to be anything less than angelic. Fix your problems, show, or else you won't have one anymore. I have some ideas...![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_6478-1024x768.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-nashville-episode-2-2-10-2013/)