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shallowness) wrote2013-06-09 08:44 pm
shallowness) wrote2013-06-09 08:44 pm
Last night
Nashville 1.17 My Heart Would Know and 1.18 Take These Chains from My Heart
Well, I saw some of that coming and wasn’t too mightily shocked by most of it either, but I did think most of the developments and complications were credible. I could see Dante was isolating Juliette and undermining Jolene, but I thought he was going to relapse, rather than it being a con.
The Rayna family stuff was the most moving, as Wadi filled her in on what was eminently guessable. I loved her and Tandy’s relationship and that she got to understand a little more about Lemar, but just as he seemed less monstrous, he turned on Tandy. And will get bitten for it.
Fair play to Deacon for standing up for Avery, whom I don’t think he much likes for himself. But you know what would have made Deacon seem like a better guy? Some contact with Jolene and actually referring to her by name seeing as he helped to get her to rehab. I’m not asking for major involvement in the plotline, but some awareness...Of course, he was busy with his own stuff with Stacy and Rayna. The show is slowly winning me over to care about Rayna/Deacon as much as it wants me to care about them. The way he was there for her at the hospital and admitted that she came first. Stacy seems sensible enough to understand that ‘in my blood’ is too entangled for it to be worth her being the other woman.
Saw Will being closeted coming. BTW the appropriate response to Gunnar saying he was depressed because his brother died wasn’t ADRENALINE RUSHES. Huh, Chris Carmack can sing, but Claire Bowen has something extra to her voice. It certainly makes you root for Scarlett’s journey. I will hate the show if it with-holds Scarlett and Gunnar duetting together before the end of the series. I like them as a couple, even if I think the way the show’s pretending that their coming together when Gunnar’s brother died, which has affected him in so many ways, isn’t an issue at all, while touching on how her relationship with Avery is affecting her in this new relationship, and the fact that he had such a crush on her foris affecting it—it’s inconsistent. I mean, the latest iteration was a lack of communication (dude, Gunnar, it’s not going to last if you don’t work at it and tell her you’re thinking about finding your voice and stage persona). I may be anxious about what the show will do to them is all – the image of Scarlett in that white dress on an empty stage with Avery was frighteningly pretty. But they seem to know they’ve got to have conflict now that they’ve got them together, and while I do have irrational OTP feelings, so I wouldn’t love that conflict in any way, I’d be less grumpy if it made sense.
Oh, and after all that happens, I hope the show some day gives me Juliette/Liam. (Well done, Liam, no booze in episode 18, although I expect he drank something stronger than bottled water when Rayna dumped him.)
ETA: I tried to watch The Americans on ITV Player, but it didn't work - it's been a bit chancy. So, I took that as a sign and caught up on Nashville instead.
Well, I saw some of that coming and wasn’t too mightily shocked by most of it either, but I did think most of the developments and complications were credible. I could see Dante was isolating Juliette and undermining Jolene, but I thought he was going to relapse, rather than it being a con.
The Rayna family stuff was the most moving, as Wadi filled her in on what was eminently guessable. I loved her and Tandy’s relationship and that she got to understand a little more about Lemar, but just as he seemed less monstrous, he turned on Tandy. And will get bitten for it.
Fair play to Deacon for standing up for Avery, whom I don’t think he much likes for himself. But you know what would have made Deacon seem like a better guy? Some contact with Jolene and actually referring to her by name seeing as he helped to get her to rehab. I’m not asking for major involvement in the plotline, but some awareness...Of course, he was busy with his own stuff with Stacy and Rayna. The show is slowly winning me over to care about Rayna/Deacon as much as it wants me to care about them. The way he was there for her at the hospital and admitted that she came first. Stacy seems sensible enough to understand that ‘in my blood’ is too entangled for it to be worth her being the other woman.
Saw Will being closeted coming. BTW the appropriate response to Gunnar saying he was depressed because his brother died wasn’t ADRENALINE RUSHES. Huh, Chris Carmack can sing, but Claire Bowen has something extra to her voice. It certainly makes you root for Scarlett’s journey. I will hate the show if it with-holds Scarlett and Gunnar duetting together before the end of the series. I like them as a couple, even if I think the way the show’s pretending that their coming together when Gunnar’s brother died, which has affected him in so many ways, isn’t an issue at all, while touching on how her relationship with Avery is affecting her in this new relationship, and the fact that he had such a crush on her foris affecting it—it’s inconsistent. I mean, the latest iteration was a lack of communication (dude, Gunnar, it’s not going to last if you don’t work at it and tell her you’re thinking about finding your voice and stage persona). I may be anxious about what the show will do to them is all – the image of Scarlett in that white dress on an empty stage with Avery was frighteningly pretty. But they seem to know they’ve got to have conflict now that they’ve got them together, and while I do have irrational OTP feelings, so I wouldn’t love that conflict in any way, I’d be less grumpy if it made sense.
Oh, and after all that happens, I hope the show some day gives me Juliette/Liam. (Well done, Liam, no booze in episode 18, although I expect he drank something stronger than bottled water when Rayna dumped him.)
ETA: I tried to watch The Americans on ITV Player, but it didn't work - it's been a bit chancy. So, I took that as a sign and caught up on Nashville instead.