Nashville

Nashville – Lovesick Blues

  • Title: Nashville – Lovesick Blues
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As Rayna (Connie Britton) continues to work with her new producer (Michiel Huisman) on refining her new sound, Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) deals with the unexpected consequences of dating a young football star (Tilky Jones) when fans and tabloids begin to blame her for the quarterback’s less than stellar stats since the two began seeing each other (making it even more difficult not to draw comparisons to Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson‘s relationships with Dallas Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo from which the show’s writers were obviously inspired). Both women are shocked, and less than pleased, when the record label insists the pair perform together to close out the upcoming country music showcase.

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Nashville – You’re Gonna Change (Or I’m Gonna Leave)

  • Title: Nashville – Someday You’ll Call My Name
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“Sometime you’ve got to blow up the box.”

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The amazing thing about soap operas is you can miss a couple of weeks of episodes and not miss a single beat. And, in both good ways and bad, Nashville is very much a soap opera. Despite not watching the previous two episodes of the series it took me less than 2-minutes to get caught up on the show’s ongoing stories, which (in typical soap opera fashion) haven’t made all that much progress in my absence. That said, “You’re Gonna Change (Or I’m Gonna Leave)” works well enough that I may return in a couple of weeks to see what else Nashville has in store when it returns after a short Thanksgiving break.

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Nashville – Someday You’ll Call My Name

  • Title: Nashville – Someday You’ll Call My Name
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Despite Deacon’s (Charles Esten) repeated refusals, Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) continues to try to woo the singer-songwriter to dump his tour with Rayna (Connie Britton) and sign an exclusive contract to join her on tour. Deacon’s refusal, despite his concern over noticing Rayna’s growing uncertainty about going on a small, intimate tour with the man she used to love, isn’t the teen starlet’s biggest problem as Juliette’s mother (Sylvia Jefferies) shows up at the record label,  the recording studio, and later her home, trying to hit up her daughter for money she can use to pay for her drug addiction.

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Nashville – I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)

  • Title: Nashville – I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)
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After turning down the label’s offer to tour with Juliette Banres (Hayden Panettiere), Rayna (Connie Britton) returns home to Nashville to lick her wounds only to find Juliette is in town shooting a music video, much to the delight of Rayna’s young daughters (Lennon StellaMaisy Stella). Unable to pack arenas with a floundering album that has no studio support, Rayna’s advisers encourage her to go out on the road with Deacon (Charles Esten), play smaller venues, and get back to the kind of music they used to perform when they were a couple. Not ready to give up on wooing the musician over to her tour, Juliette uses her wiles to try to win over Deacon as they spend time writing a song together.

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Nashville – Pilot

  • Title: Nashville – Pilot
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Providing us a set-up not all that dissimilar to Country Strong (minus the trip to rehab and with a hearty extra helping of soap opera suds), the “Pilot” episode of Nashville stars Connie Britton as fading country music legend Rayna Jaymes who is offered an ultimatum by her record label. If she wants their continued support of her flagging album they want Rayna to agree to share the spotlight with popular but bitchy teen sensation Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) by opening for Barnes on a combined tour.

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