Nashville triple bill
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shallownessI didn't watch the last three episodes all in one go, but thought I'd post my reactions all together
2.4 You’re No Angel Yourself
I felt for Thandie(sp?) the most, actually, having to face the strong possibility that her shifty father killed her mother. But Maddie (especially after her reunions with Rayna, Deacon and her sister) came a close second, and, as ever, I can get where Juliette is coming from, even though it took her all episode to realise that there was a solution in the middle ground. (That Juliette wannabe so has an echo of Zooey Deschanel about her too.) But the fact that Juliette had a tantrum over Rayna’s desertion and slammed her opening act/replacement in the tweens’ heart was pretty funny. Glen’s straight talking to her was also entertaining, and all that was nicely balanced with Juliette pointing out that she’d never got to be a ‘tween and doing right by Maddie while her heart broke a little at the sight of mothering she’d never had.
Ugh, Juliette – how come you got to me so? Well, Hayden Panettiere is how, it’s a great performance.
But Juliette never even thought of Avery, who is now going to irritate Gunnar. Heh. Although it might lead to interesting places by having them both learn more about each other. Gunnar is mainly in the right over the stolen song, except he’s been living with Will long enough to know that he makes Bad Decisions.
(But I find that I did get invested in Juliette/Avery. Hmph.)
So, Zoe can sing – a very unplugged episode music wise, with the sisters winning. I liked Deacon's lawyer lady, although she very much is a lawyer lady.
Alas, poor Scarlett, caught up in the show being POINTED about the sexualisation of celeb imagery. The photographer might have got less of a rabbit in headlights look if he’d asked her to pretend she was singing.
I’d been spoiled by the More 4 trailers about Maddie running away, so I’m glad that’s over and done with.
2.5 Don’t Open That Door
Have Juliette and Wyatt ever met? Some little similarity in attitude there, no?
I’m still loving Glen’s relationship with Juliette (and although he’s mostly right, the label manager is also treating Juliette badly – although he’s a bit of a figure to boo and hiss, given that he won’t give Rayna a break).
Could have done with a scene from where things were between Avery and Gunnar to them jamming together/working on a song.
I liked that Rayna had reached a point where she could call spending time with Juliette tolerable. I had an actual emotional reaction, to the point of a sniffle or two, at Juliette’s surprise and pleasure at being invited into the Opry and Rayna’s part in the moment and Rayna finding her voice again, with Juliette watching and understanding and the audience helping her.
I was pleased rather than otherwise to be wrongfooted about the Mini Me, Zoe/Gonnar and a couple of other things.
I think the show could stand to show that there really are people in country music who don’t HAVE to perform.
And maybe the script continuity person or script editor could work a little harder, because there were a couple of glaring mistakes, and when a show is using timing as in Rayna burning bridges with Jeff just before discovering her daddy was arrested and his assets frozen, it should be tighter on that.
With Juliette/Avery back on friendly terms – and healthily so – I suppose I’m going to have to wait a bit for them to get somewhere (or look to see if there’s fic) but I’m willing to wait for it.
2.6 It Must Be You
I would be surprised if Teddy found it easy to talk his daughters to come to his second wedding.
Lots of hard work to get as many characters as possible to the polo (ugh, polo) and most of the extras’ hats were deeply unconvincing but the few men in bow-ties looked convincing in them and I’m a firm believer in the fact that only a few men can wear bow-ties.
Hmm, I wonder if Gunnar is fully facing everything that’s driving him towards Zoe. I don’t know why he was acting so stupid about the girl code as explained by Zoe, it applies the other way. He’s an idiot, but not how Zoe meant when she told him to kiss her.
I am glad that Avery seems to have grown up, the fact that he could express his regret to Scarlett like that is proof of it, then he was nice to her and Scarlett was overwhelmed and there's still residual feelings, but I think she’s moved on too much for him as a person for him to have another chance with her – and besides, while I don’t want golden handcuffs to bind him to Juliette, I was, er, glad that he’d taken up the offer to use her studio. I’m also glad that the show is keeping in mind that there are the self-made obstacles of his past between him and his musical aspirations. Hmm.
I would not have believed that I could grow to care so much about Avery, but I’m worried about him in the tangle he’s stumbled into and how vulnerable he is to Scarlett rejecting him and how it might extinguish his belief in second chances and attempt to rebuild.
Anyway, while Panettiere managed to go fairly broad but not too much so at the polo, Juliette was doing everything wrong to repel Charlie. And though I am rolling my eyes at the ordinary bloke who isn’t that bad (who is even the victim of domestic abuse???), and it was inherently ridiculous, I enjoyed the song in the stable, and the venue and style made Panettiere’s singing sound better than usual. But yeah, hooking up again with a married man went like one would expect (Juliette’s line about not wanting to tell her sob stories was instructive, I thought). And Rayna might be irritating, but that was good career advice.
I have much less to say about the real grown-ups, except when Thandie's part in bringing their daddy down comes out, things should be interesting between the sisters.
2.4 You’re No Angel Yourself
I felt for Thandie(sp?) the most, actually, having to face the strong possibility that her shifty father killed her mother. But Maddie (especially after her reunions with Rayna, Deacon and her sister) came a close second, and, as ever, I can get where Juliette is coming from, even though it took her all episode to realise that there was a solution in the middle ground. (That Juliette wannabe so has an echo of Zooey Deschanel about her too.) But the fact that Juliette had a tantrum over Rayna’s desertion and slammed her opening act/replacement in the tweens’ heart was pretty funny. Glen’s straight talking to her was also entertaining, and all that was nicely balanced with Juliette pointing out that she’d never got to be a ‘tween and doing right by Maddie while her heart broke a little at the sight of mothering she’d never had.
Ugh, Juliette – how come you got to me so? Well, Hayden Panettiere is how, it’s a great performance.
But Juliette never even thought of Avery, who is now going to irritate Gunnar. Heh. Although it might lead to interesting places by having them both learn more about each other. Gunnar is mainly in the right over the stolen song, except he’s been living with Will long enough to know that he makes Bad Decisions.
(But I find that I did get invested in Juliette/Avery. Hmph.)
So, Zoe can sing – a very unplugged episode music wise, with the sisters winning. I liked Deacon's lawyer lady, although she very much is a lawyer lady.
Alas, poor Scarlett, caught up in the show being POINTED about the sexualisation of celeb imagery. The photographer might have got less of a rabbit in headlights look if he’d asked her to pretend she was singing.
I’d been spoiled by the More 4 trailers about Maddie running away, so I’m glad that’s over and done with.
2.5 Don’t Open That Door
Have Juliette and Wyatt ever met? Some little similarity in attitude there, no?
I’m still loving Glen’s relationship with Juliette (and although he’s mostly right, the label manager is also treating Juliette badly – although he’s a bit of a figure to boo and hiss, given that he won’t give Rayna a break).
Could have done with a scene from where things were between Avery and Gunnar to them jamming together/working on a song.
I liked that Rayna had reached a point where she could call spending time with Juliette tolerable. I had an actual emotional reaction, to the point of a sniffle or two, at Juliette’s surprise and pleasure at being invited into the Opry and Rayna’s part in the moment and Rayna finding her voice again, with Juliette watching and understanding and the audience helping her.
I was pleased rather than otherwise to be wrongfooted about the Mini Me, Zoe/Gonnar and a couple of other things.
I think the show could stand to show that there really are people in country music who don’t HAVE to perform.
And maybe the script continuity person or script editor could work a little harder, because there were a couple of glaring mistakes, and when a show is using timing as in Rayna burning bridges with Jeff just before discovering her daddy was arrested and his assets frozen, it should be tighter on that.
With Juliette/Avery back on friendly terms – and healthily so – I suppose I’m going to have to wait a bit for them to get somewhere (or look to see if there’s fic) but I’m willing to wait for it.
2.6 It Must Be You
I would be surprised if Teddy found it easy to talk his daughters to come to his second wedding.
Lots of hard work to get as many characters as possible to the polo (ugh, polo) and most of the extras’ hats were deeply unconvincing but the few men in bow-ties looked convincing in them and I’m a firm believer in the fact that only a few men can wear bow-ties.
Hmm, I wonder if Gunnar is fully facing everything that’s driving him towards Zoe. I don’t know why he was acting so stupid about the girl code as explained by Zoe, it applies the other way. He’s an idiot, but not how Zoe meant when she told him to kiss her.
I am glad that Avery seems to have grown up, the fact that he could express his regret to Scarlett like that is proof of it, then he was nice to her and Scarlett was overwhelmed and there's still residual feelings, but I think she’s moved on too much for him as a person for him to have another chance with her – and besides, while I don’t want golden handcuffs to bind him to Juliette, I was, er, glad that he’d taken up the offer to use her studio. I’m also glad that the show is keeping in mind that there are the self-made obstacles of his past between him and his musical aspirations. Hmm.
I would not have believed that I could grow to care so much about Avery, but I’m worried about him in the tangle he’s stumbled into and how vulnerable he is to Scarlett rejecting him and how it might extinguish his belief in second chances and attempt to rebuild.
Anyway, while Panettiere managed to go fairly broad but not too much so at the polo, Juliette was doing everything wrong to repel Charlie. And though I am rolling my eyes at the ordinary bloke who isn’t that bad (who is even the victim of domestic abuse???), and it was inherently ridiculous, I enjoyed the song in the stable, and the venue and style made Panettiere’s singing sound better than usual. But yeah, hooking up again with a married man went like one would expect (Juliette’s line about not wanting to tell her sob stories was instructive, I thought). And Rayna might be irritating, but that was good career advice.
I have much less to say about the real grown-ups, except when Thandie's part in bringing their daddy down comes out, things should be interesting between the sisters.
