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shallownessI caught up on Nashville last night - I know the next episode is literally airing now, but I don't feel like watching anything straight after The Good Wife, when I want to process.
Nashville 2.14 Too Far Gone
Nice mix of drama and humour, epitomised for me in Juliette/Avery as a (secret) couple. The ‘toast’!!! “Avery is a terrible liar.” Him hating the sofa and her retorting about his arty-farty Italiano (er French) films! The negotiation!! I’m with Deacon about liking them, only about eleventy times more.
Despite a little competition from Gunnar (what a song he wrote for Will) Avery was the one who told the most truths this episode.
I still liked Deacon and Megan, but of course he’d have to walk in on her holding hands with the one guy in Nashville guaranteed to press all his buttons. Still, I was on her side once he started getting nasty. But I’m glad he apologised and she acknowledged he had some right on his side.
I really like them showing Zoey having to learn how to audition – just as a backing singer - as a contrast to the others surrounding her, who seem like they’re in a privileged position to a first runger. I’m glad she decided to go for it.
Nope Tandy, you we’re not acting suspicious at all. In front of your murdering father. Nope.
Wow, the Wyatt house is palatial. Or it certainly came across that way in the Wyatt comes home scenes.
The girls singing with Rayna was totes adorbs.
And of course she challenged her father and his answer was unsatisfying. Plus, a point that hasn’t been thrashed out is that Rayna could just has easily have been accidentally killed in Teddy’s place, rather than it being Peggy.
At first, I was worried about Teddy dobbing Tandy in (although it made sense for him to do so), but I was almost feeling that they’d forgotten about Lemar’s heart condition with the cookies etc, so well done for using that. For five minutes, I was left wondering if they’d let him die.
How could anyone work with Jeff for five years, BRENT? And then be surprised he’d turn on you, BRENT. (The countdown to him turning on Will/Will spiralling out of control starts here.) Jeff is totally not owning the fact that he was the one who lost Rayna and Juliette from Edgehill.
2.15 They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy Anymore
(spoiler for Orphan Black 2.3)
I found myself thinking I couldn’t see a desperate woman turning up on Liam McGuiniss’s doorstep and introducing him to the child he didn’t know he’d fathered and trusting him to keep her safe. Which is why, I was applauding Scarlett’s wisdom in not getting involved there – he was JUST flirting more seriously than he was pretending to with Rayna, even if Scarlett might not have seen that - even if they’d connected over the music (or it was a line from him?). But then, nope. At least they build up to it.
More importantly, now that Liam has admitted to working on ‘his music’ who will be next? Glenn? Bucky? EMILY?
Wonder how long before the people who really care for Scarlett compare notes.
Gunnar seemed to have not learned anything from the season 1 Scarlett/Avery debacle in his attitude towards Zoey. Perfect little look from and between Avery and Deacon. (And that’s a good little trio of voices, even if they shouldn’t sing a song with the word ‘both’ in it.)
And then the storm broke for Rayna and her kids and sister because Teddy was a weak, murderous liar. (Harsh? They built up to it decently. I suppose.) I don’t care that much, but I did get irked that he confessed to Megan. She deserves better than being grabbed and forced to play Peggy v2.0 for him!
But honestly, I care so much more for Juliette’s created family. I got most emotional over Glenn feeling he had to leave Juliette to a strange man who...well, tried to make her a bit Lady Gaga and put her in a mask was what jumped out at me, not the tastelessness of stomping all over Rayna’s grief. Glenn can’t leave her, he’s her surrogate father! Fortunately, Juliette wouldn’t let him, getting that the country music industry wasn’t all of country music. Aww, I was very proud of his surrogate daughter.
Although she’s got other people in her corner now too. I know it’s the honeymoon stage and I’m sure they’ll get broken eventually, because of the nature of the show, but I want them put back together again, because Juliette/Avery is THE most positive romantic relationship either of them, but especially she, has ever been in.
And even Emily seems to be okay with it!
I read that the show has been renewed for the third season. I wasn't really aware that that was in doubt. I think it's improved, and got me to care more about more characters. Plus, after souring me on my favourite ship in the second half of season 1 (although I still think they're endgame), it gave me a new favourite ship in the second.
The Good Wife 5.17 A Material World
Intriguing episode, with Alicia, Diane and Kalinda working through their grief (or not). The big talking point is the Alicia-Peter clash, I suppose, because it just showed how they weren’t on the same page, at all. It also showed for me that they show maybe hadn’t handled Alicia-Peter that well, because I still don’t know if they'd reaffirmed their marriage vows. I think I assumed they must have because of Alicia’s flashier jewellery as compared with the flashbacks looking back at when she first started? Well, it’s not like they showed us any of what was going on. Had she wriggled out of it?
At least she was clear about what she saw their marriage as being now. It’s just...it was hard to swallow that Peter would have been so accepting for so long of that being what was going on without their talking about it. And, of course, Will, the lover, acknowledged now. Wow, there’s a lot Peter hasn’t faced. We probably needed more of the not facing over the seasons.
So, yes, Alicia fell apart because Will mattered, and because she was grappling with mortality and how that affects your life choices, and Peter literally couldn’t see that.
It was all very well being so protective of the kids, but let’s hope they had their headphones on loudly to miss out on that fight, in that case.
I was really pleased that they specifically addressed Kalinda being the one who saw the most of the physical reality of Will being dead, because I thought she was asking too much of herself. Guh, the pictures! And Cary trying to reach out and that being too much, and then going to use Jenna.
Even damaged, having her on side may well swing it for Diane. I loved that Kalinda offered her her loyalty. The organisation will be different now without Will, and many of the motivations for Kalinda leaving have gone. Having said that, I thought that Kalinda might well be able to deal with Damian and to do so with pleasure (it looks like the firm didn’t know about his stealing of Will’s clients), but what about David Lee? While it was good to see Diane pulling rank effectively, what about his final move?
It just reminded me that because of Fox’s commitments, we never got to see Louis Canning and Martha Plimpton’s character in action as partners together, as promised in season 4. They’ll make up for it now, of course, and it’s going to be an interesting battle for the direction and, perhaps, of the firm.
Even so, I did think David had a point about not rushing into the merger, hatched over martinis after a funeral!? Did Diane really think she would have Alicia and Cary 'in her pocket' after everything or was that a total Damian misread? Plus Alicia needed to talk to Cary for something like that. And there are ramifications there for Alicia pulling the ‘will walk’ line over the father’s lawsuit and taking up Polmar’s case. (Dude, welcome to Chicago, thought I, as Alica's cynicism came true.)
One small thing, a few Britishisms seemed to appear in the script – ‘dodgy’ and ‘do you fancy’. It jumped out at me because they were uttered by British actors playing Americans.
That show Alicia keeps catching on her TV is amusingly dire. (Although as with how they’re handling a certain agency, I can see that argument against going for the comedy.)
Nashville 2.14 Too Far Gone
Nice mix of drama and humour, epitomised for me in Juliette/Avery as a (secret) couple. The ‘toast’!!! “Avery is a terrible liar.” Him hating the sofa and her retorting about his arty-farty Italiano (er French) films! The negotiation!! I’m with Deacon about liking them, only about eleventy times more.
Despite a little competition from Gunnar (what a song he wrote for Will) Avery was the one who told the most truths this episode.
I still liked Deacon and Megan, but of course he’d have to walk in on her holding hands with the one guy in Nashville guaranteed to press all his buttons. Still, I was on her side once he started getting nasty. But I’m glad he apologised and she acknowledged he had some right on his side.
I really like them showing Zoey having to learn how to audition – just as a backing singer - as a contrast to the others surrounding her, who seem like they’re in a privileged position to a first runger. I’m glad she decided to go for it.
Nope Tandy, you we’re not acting suspicious at all. In front of your murdering father. Nope.
Wow, the Wyatt house is palatial. Or it certainly came across that way in the Wyatt comes home scenes.
The girls singing with Rayna was totes adorbs.
And of course she challenged her father and his answer was unsatisfying. Plus, a point that hasn’t been thrashed out is that Rayna could just has easily have been accidentally killed in Teddy’s place, rather than it being Peggy.
At first, I was worried about Teddy dobbing Tandy in (although it made sense for him to do so), but I was almost feeling that they’d forgotten about Lemar’s heart condition with the cookies etc, so well done for using that. For five minutes, I was left wondering if they’d let him die.
How could anyone work with Jeff for five years, BRENT? And then be surprised he’d turn on you, BRENT. (The countdown to him turning on Will/Will spiralling out of control starts here.) Jeff is totally not owning the fact that he was the one who lost Rayna and Juliette from Edgehill.
2.15 They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy Anymore
(spoiler for Orphan Black 2.3)
I found myself thinking I couldn’t see a desperate woman turning up on Liam McGuiniss’s doorstep and introducing him to the child he didn’t know he’d fathered and trusting him to keep her safe. Which is why, I was applauding Scarlett’s wisdom in not getting involved there – he was JUST flirting more seriously than he was pretending to with Rayna, even if Scarlett might not have seen that - even if they’d connected over the music (or it was a line from him?). But then, nope. At least they build up to it.
More importantly, now that Liam has admitted to working on ‘his music’ who will be next? Glenn? Bucky? EMILY?
Wonder how long before the people who really care for Scarlett compare notes.
Gunnar seemed to have not learned anything from the season 1 Scarlett/Avery debacle in his attitude towards Zoey. Perfect little look from and between Avery and Deacon. (And that’s a good little trio of voices, even if they shouldn’t sing a song with the word ‘both’ in it.)
And then the storm broke for Rayna and her kids and sister because Teddy was a weak, murderous liar. (Harsh? They built up to it decently. I suppose.) I don’t care that much, but I did get irked that he confessed to Megan. She deserves better than being grabbed and forced to play Peggy v2.0 for him!
But honestly, I care so much more for Juliette’s created family. I got most emotional over Glenn feeling he had to leave Juliette to a strange man who...well, tried to make her a bit Lady Gaga and put her in a mask was what jumped out at me, not the tastelessness of stomping all over Rayna’s grief. Glenn can’t leave her, he’s her surrogate father! Fortunately, Juliette wouldn’t let him, getting that the country music industry wasn’t all of country music. Aww, I was very proud of his surrogate daughter.
Although she’s got other people in her corner now too. I know it’s the honeymoon stage and I’m sure they’ll get broken eventually, because of the nature of the show, but I want them put back together again, because Juliette/Avery is THE most positive romantic relationship either of them, but especially she, has ever been in.
And even Emily seems to be okay with it!
I read that the show has been renewed for the third season. I wasn't really aware that that was in doubt. I think it's improved, and got me to care more about more characters. Plus, after souring me on my favourite ship in the second half of season 1 (although I still think they're endgame), it gave me a new favourite ship in the second.
The Good Wife 5.17 A Material World
Intriguing episode, with Alicia, Diane and Kalinda working through their grief (or not). The big talking point is the Alicia-Peter clash, I suppose, because it just showed how they weren’t on the same page, at all. It also showed for me that they show maybe hadn’t handled Alicia-Peter that well, because I still don’t know if they'd reaffirmed their marriage vows. I think I assumed they must have because of Alicia’s flashier jewellery as compared with the flashbacks looking back at when she first started? Well, it’s not like they showed us any of what was going on. Had she wriggled out of it?
At least she was clear about what she saw their marriage as being now. It’s just...it was hard to swallow that Peter would have been so accepting for so long of that being what was going on without their talking about it. And, of course, Will, the lover, acknowledged now. Wow, there’s a lot Peter hasn’t faced. We probably needed more of the not facing over the seasons.
So, yes, Alicia fell apart because Will mattered, and because she was grappling with mortality and how that affects your life choices, and Peter literally couldn’t see that.
It was all very well being so protective of the kids, but let’s hope they had their headphones on loudly to miss out on that fight, in that case.
I was really pleased that they specifically addressed Kalinda being the one who saw the most of the physical reality of Will being dead, because I thought she was asking too much of herself. Guh, the pictures! And Cary trying to reach out and that being too much, and then going to use Jenna.
Even damaged, having her on side may well swing it for Diane. I loved that Kalinda offered her her loyalty. The organisation will be different now without Will, and many of the motivations for Kalinda leaving have gone. Having said that, I thought that Kalinda might well be able to deal with Damian and to do so with pleasure (it looks like the firm didn’t know about his stealing of Will’s clients), but what about David Lee? While it was good to see Diane pulling rank effectively, what about his final move?
It just reminded me that because of Fox’s commitments, we never got to see Louis Canning and Martha Plimpton’s character in action as partners together, as promised in season 4. They’ll make up for it now, of course, and it’s going to be an interesting battle for the direction and, perhaps, of the firm.
Even so, I did think David had a point about not rushing into the merger, hatched over martinis after a funeral!? Did Diane really think she would have Alicia and Cary 'in her pocket' after everything or was that a total Damian misread? Plus Alicia needed to talk to Cary for something like that. And there are ramifications there for Alicia pulling the ‘will walk’ line over the father’s lawsuit and taking up Polmar’s case. (Dude, welcome to Chicago, thought I, as Alica's cynicism came true.)
One small thing, a few Britishisms seemed to appear in the script – ‘dodgy’ and ‘do you fancy’. It jumped out at me because they were uttered by British actors playing Americans.
That show Alicia keeps catching on her TV is amusingly dire. (Although as with how they’re handling a certain agency, I can see that argument against going for the comedy.)
