Blahville Juliette basically wake up feeling dead inside, yet again, and feels stupid for freaking out about the tabloid pictures. Her awful Drunky Flunky glances at them and says their body language confirms that Emily and Avery are totally nailing, then gives Juliette some pills to pick her up from
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View the gallery B is for bitter. Y is for yelping. E is for envious. B is for bailing. E is for exasperating. V is for very very very reVisionist history required to make Deacon so vengeful. What's it spell? BYE BEV. Also, getting serious for a second:
View GalleryFuneralville Deacon is bummed, because the script says so. He chokes on his eulogy and Rayna has to step in, and he also recasts Bev as this wonderful bright light on the universe, so tough, such a fighter, so undaunted. I know Bev was supposed to grapple with some mental
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View the gallery This show has now spent THREE episodes dragging out the fate of a character we never cared about, but it looks like there is finally a light at the end of Bev's tunnel, and she is walking into it.
View GalleryComaville Bev basically has no brain function and is breathing on a respirator, and Scarlett and Deacon have to decide what to do about it. Correction: SCARLETT has to decide, because she has the power of attorney. Deacon huffs and sniffs and snarls that he knows Bev would want them
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View the gallery This week, the Stella sisters basically killed it on-stage. Juliette's music is getting a little droning and heavy for me, sadly. A little collaboration with Maddie and Daphne would do wonders for her.
View GalleryNashville, season 2, episode 2 I am unclear when this photo of Juliette and Avery and Cadence could have been taken, given that she walked out on the family a month ago and I'm not sure if enough time passed before that for Cadence to look so... up
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View the gallery Welcome back, Nashville, which brings us upon its return some bad clothes, weird hair, a fake magazine, some beard-cutting -- actual, not symbolic -- a lot of crying, and the acknowledgment we've all been waiting for that Rayna is TERRIBLE AT HER JOB.
View GalleryJulietteville We begin at the premiere of Juliette's Patsy Cline movie, which they've named Shenandoah Girl, which sounds too boring. Her interview is all smiles and sunshine and Oscar hopes, and she merrily claims that Avery and Cadence are at home just as happy as can
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This episode was weirdly unsatisfying to me, I think because every story seemed so telegraphed by the time we actually got there -- with the slight exception of Will's, which has always been one of my favorites even when it's repetitive. But I think the real problem
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One left in the season, and the show officially got picked up for a fourth. Laura Benanti is tabbed as "recurring" for Supergirl, which also got the nod, and it IS also for ABC, so... maybe we can hold out hope that they'll lend her for
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Two more episodes left for us to wonder whether Deacon's liver might explode. You'll be glad to now they DO at least make a passing mention here of Rayna not being a match -- meaning they discussed it and she was tested during a commercial break -- and
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So, it would appear my soulmate has arrived on Nashville. She is Avery's mother, and she spends most of the episode either drenching Juliette in ocular stink for entirely deserved reasons, or giving Avery some bracing yet supportive real talk. Truthfully, I initially missed that this was Mama
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This episode felt a little perkier, thanks to the full-time return of Juliette, and the fact that lots of people who are NOT Juliette had actual adult conversations in mature ways -- which is, as you know, my kryptonite. But first, a beef: Juliette has named her baby Cadence -- whoever
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I basically want to blow through the other plots in this episode so that we can get straight to Hayden Panettiere, who was epic and hysterical. I have no idea when she had her baby in real life relative to when they shot this, but... she is a national treasure,
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