Viewville In case you're wondering, Luke Wheeler is continuing his trek through all of ABC's daytime properties, in an effort to promote Will's cause. The ladies of The View are concerned that Luke is doing this all by himself without any help from Will.
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View the gallery Poor, cancelled Nashville. The pitch from the former thirtysomething show-runners that they'd hired must have been weak. BUT, we shall stick it out until the miserable, bitter end anyway, in the hopes that they saw The End coming and saw fit to let Juliette
View GallerySlumpville Layla's album sales are flagging. Glenn tries to be reassuring, and tells her to play the long game, but Layla is impatient. And so -- this is the "twist" we find out at the end of the episode, but it was fairly clear to me at
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View the gallery In this episode, Juliette finally gets out of her own way, while Deacon is unable to do the same. And I go on a rant about how this TOTALLY would not be the time Oscar nominations are coming out, because I am nothing if not someone who
View GalleryOscarville We learn right off the top that Juliette has received an Oscar nomination for "Shenandoah Girl," and so right off the top I am annoyed. This show acts like every single thing exists in its own windowless box. Case in point: This. I don't REALLY
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View the gallery Much tongue is deployed in this episode, and I'm not sure how much of it will make any of you happy.
View GalleryStiffville Conveniently, Southern Living Magazine is doing a feature on Rayna Jaymes, taking us inside her world -- which would be remarkable if she hadn't lived in this house for a decade-plus, and thus, already had plenty of people peek into her world. She did a freaking Christmas
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View the gallery Surprise! My jet lag is not bad, so I was able to bang out this recap in advance of tomorrow's new episode. Juliette Barnes's hair has never looked better; Layla Grant's has never looked worse. If Avery judges by that, then
View GalleryNoshville Juliette is using all her non-Cadence hours to cook breakfast for Emily and Glenn, to welcome Team Barnes back into existence. And she doesn't waste time asking them what the next step is for resurrecting her career -- via recording, not touring. I am a LITTLE tired
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View the gallery We get songs this week by Maddie and Juliette, the latter of which, yes, wrote it in like three minutes and had it arranged and everything. Elsewhere, Alicia Witt is conniving, Layla tees up some emotional blackmail, and Rayna is kind of the worst again, a bit.
View GalleryTabloidville Y'all know how much I love prop newspapers and the like, so here is the world renowned AdStarDaily with an amusingly bad story about Juliette dumping the Spielberg movie. (It also appears to be predicting that Paris Hilton has only three years left to live, which I&
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View the gallery Juliette is BACK. OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
View GalleryJulietteville Yes, Our Lady of Supreme Excellence is HOME AGAIN. It's not that there aren't good performers on Nashville, but Hayden Panettiere brings energy to every single scene she's in, and it spills over through the whole episode. Here, she's stoked after
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View the gallery In which Rayna is able to sign a functional new client so her business can thrive, Maddie cares about Daphne's well-being, and Nashville the city is shot with loving tenderness. APRIL FOOLS, obviously. None of that is true.
View GalleryInsomniaville Rayna has allegedly been up for untold hours thinking about how sad she is that Vita might be a thief. I would like to note that if this is her Up For Untold Hours hair, then she really IS blessed. My Up For One Hour hair is worse than
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