shallowness | stuff from this morning

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comment_fic B99, Santiago's quite proud of her snappy comeback, which gave me a good cackle after logging on.

Nashville 3.13 I’m Lost Between Right and Wrong

Juliette is still being the comic turn (probably because it’s high impact but less stress on the equally preggers actress). But pretty much everything else was grim or angsty (Deacon’s cancer and not being high enough on the transplant list; Maddie feeling abandoned by Deacon; Sadie’s fear; Gunnar’s heartbreak, not to mention Luke’s; wondering if Layla was really all right and record company head woes). It was a toss-up in my mind as to whether the necklace and note had gone to Rayna by mistake or on purpose. But Jeff meant it.

I did like that they’d seeded Luke wanting a new song for his album in the last episode. But ha!, with Luke and Gunnar drunk, that left Will to be the ‘sensible one’.

And among all the things Teddy hasn’t thought about, Daphne, I think, would be really hurt at the Conrad sisters being split up for Maddie’s big record deal.

Maddie was so in the dark in this episode. I know, with Scarlett freaking out and him facing a prognosis of months, Deacon’s not in the best head space, but he was hurting her horribly by what he was saying. And with the dichotomy between what he was saying and his actions. It was also striking that there was so much talk about her in the contract storyline and she knew about none of it, having seemed to accept what was said in the last episode, given how she was talking about maybe doing a few more gigs. Of course, it lent even more shadiness to the deal.

I hoped that Jeff didn’t ask Layla to play as a back-up in case of Maddie not being there, even though that would make him more human than I liked. Layla’s work might be popular, it might make people re-evaluate her and get respect from her peers, even critics, but it wasn’t surefire country-pop hits, so, apart from trying to sell himself as not having a woman problem, I didn’t see the value of having her sing at the meeting.

Oh, if the hot doctor is claiming to be Scarlett’s friend who tells her she’s a happiness bully, I think we all know where THAT’s headed.

Very nice (fragment of a) song from Luke and Gunnar, although with us then moving to the ten o’clock meeting of great import, I really couldn’t believe they’d come up with it in so little time.

I may have squealed in glee at Rayna turning up to do war with arrogant Jeff, and I am delighted that, unlike Teddy, she glomped on to the detail of how Jeff treated Layla, a young woman not much older than Maddie, and aired it. AND SHE BROUGHT HIM DOWN.

(I would love to see Connie Britton do a legal drama.)

So, we had Sadie sing the closing montage song, and I almost resented not hearing her sing it through – I’ve always liked the way they use songs on the show, but they do truncate them - with Jeff barely apologising but coming and using Layla some more (although it would be better for the girl, of course she wasn’t going to leave Nashville).