i know, right?! it was nuts.
Also, I just now found out that Rayna's daughters on the show are actually sisters irl. How often does that happen? Although, I've read that they were singing together beforehand and that probably went a long way in getting them cast as a pair.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 20 June 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
awww that makes me love them even more!
thought I was so conflicted when they started singing that goddamn Lumineers song. they're adorable, and sing like angels, but that soooooooong ugh. at least it sounds better from them than the dumb hat n banjo crew
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
so true
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
S2 debut wasn't great, except for the fact the producers built a time machine to go back to Spin City, kidnap 1990s Connie Britton, and make her film the flashback scenes with Deacon. Because she looked for real fifteen years younger in those scenes.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 26 September 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
i was so excited to see it recording on my dvr! will watch tonight
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 September 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Ha! We haven't talked about this season since the first episode? Oh well.
The fall finale was nuts. Too much stuff crammed into an hour.
Best S2 development so far? The fact the show has been able to take Avery, the most loathesome character from S1, and turn him into the most saintly person in the whole cast in S2. Not sure how that happened or why, but good for him.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 December 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
I am so impressed with the way they've repurposed Avery, and how his arc has done a total 180, he's almost my favorite character now!
I still love this show so much, I don't know why I don't update this thread more.
Kinda nerdy and silly but: do you think that the Evil Label Man engineered Big Hat Cowboy Singer to hook up with Rayna to try to smooth things over behind the scenes? It just seemed SO convenient the way Big Hat dropped her like a hot potato as soon as she said she was pulling out of the label and going on her own
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 December 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
sorry for all the nicknames, I can never remember actual character names
Okay, I wondered if that is what was being implied by his brush off or if I was just picking up on something that wasn't there. Jeff is weird. He's evil, but he also put Layla in her place over the TMZ leak when he said there'll be another singing show runner-up just like her next year and he'd sooner burn her than destroy Juliette's catalog sales (at which point I said "woo!").
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 December 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I cheered at that too! You're right, he is kinda weird, huh.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 December 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Are we supposed to care that Peggy got shot? Because I totally don't.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
I cheered. Like I literally shouted HOORAY when it happened
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 December 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
once her fake pregnancy played out she was kind of useless for lols
I'm glad they found the opportunity to fit in at least one "you're not my mother!" scene before they offed her.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 December 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
i don't know what it is, i did enjoy watching this last year, but i can't for the life of me muster any urge to start watching s2
― j., Friday, 13 December 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
S2 is arguably better. They ramped up the soapiness and the music business detail at the same time.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 December 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
what did they ramp down?!
― j., Friday, 13 December 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
Lamar.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 December 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
S2 is pretty cray, it's worth it
it gets SO awesomely soapy it's like Melrose
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 December 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
oh i totally forgot until just this second
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/zp/Clare+Bowen+Nashville+Season+1+Episode+11+NfA2nkyF85Pl.jpg
urge to watch returning
― j., Friday, 13 December 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
Mr Veg got the 2 volume Nashville soundtrack for me as a sort of joke...we were listening to it in the car the other day and it's actually kind of enjoyable. I didn't think I'd like it without the show but it's kinda fun
seems like there's not a lot to say about new season except *fumbles for pill bottle in purse*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, things are happening but are they important things? Even with two people dying since the midway point of the season, it all feels really low-stakes.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
i really did enjoy the first season, i don't know why i still can't bring myself to watch the second
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link
get on that shit!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
i still love the show, but yeah, it's not really a watercooler/thigns to talk baout show
New season started last night - What's the over/under on how many episodes Rayna will drag out the Deacon/Luke indecision.
the live portions were strange; the performances were good but the way it looked was really weird
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
I am amazed at how quickly this show became unwatchable for me
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
:(
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
completely counterintuitively given how much I hate contemporary country music when I encounter it in the wild, if the entire show was nothing but musical performances I would be very much on board; I am wholly uninterested in the permutations of relationship drama (the industry scheming can stay, though; that was the best part of the season 1 finale).
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
the music definitely is great
the show is getting more and more ridiculously soapy as it goes on but that's the part I love. stupid manufactured drama wheeeeee
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen the new episode but i love the weird mix of mundanity and hysteria to the soapiness. one second there's the most banal relationship drama, the next someone is faking a miscarriage with a vat of pig blood. that there's this excess of great genre exercises instead of a handful of songs they pimp episode after episode (don't they realize glee got away with this cuz they were pop covers rather than originals?) just adds to the absurdity
― da croupier, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
it's so counter-intuitive that a tv show would have you go "wow that's a good song" multiple times an episode and then you never hear that song again.
― da croupier, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
like if the monkees did "last train to clarksville" just once
― da croupier, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
in an episode with six other songs
i ended up buying the soundtracks for all 3 seasons, and most of it plays really well; I'm impressed by how many songs hold up to repeated listens
even Avery's weird emo stuff from the first season has grown on me
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i haven't watched this forever but i just saw some pictures of SCARLETT and did they make her all elegant and fancy as part of her music-career storyline? whatever happened to her lovable backwoods bohemian tramp couture
― j., Friday, 12 December 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
she is still backwoods bohemian iirc
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
whew
― j., Friday, 12 December 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
I haven't watched a single episode this season. Worth catching up on or nah?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 December 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
yes and no
there's a whole weird storyline with scarlett and a pretty on-the nose 'homeless blues guy'
but they've turned up the volume on the drama with rayna/luke/deacon, and juliet & avery has been kinda interesting
also: they've released a christmas album :D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 06:56 (nine years ago) link
oh shit, and before I forget --- mr Veg discovered this on a weird Nashville tribute to Motley Crue (yeah idk either)Scarlett & Gunnar doing a cover of 'Without You'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mk6l65L_E8
!
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― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 06:58 (nine years ago) link
but they've turned up the volume on the drama with rayna/luke/deacon
I hate Luke, and not the good kind of "I'm going to keep watching and hope something bad happens to him" way, but in the "Get back to me when he's killed by a pack of wild dogs" way.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 December 2014 07:05 (nine years ago) link
right there with you
I want him to be riddled with gunfire every single time he's on camera
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 07:12 (nine years ago) link
welp
***spoilers in the next post for anyone who hasn't watched who still has this thread bookmarked****
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 February 2017 06:05 (seven years ago) link
I will miss u Rayna ;_;
It sucks that they killed her off in such a truncated way on such a low-quality season but oh wellEven though I kinda knew it was going to happen I still bawled when they sang to her on the hospital bed because I'm made of corn and cheese obv
My solution was to put everyone BUT Rayna, Deacon, Avery and Juliette into a car and drive it off a cliff but oh well
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 February 2017 06:07 (seven years ago) link
This CMT season is really low budget & not-good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 February 2017 06:08 (seven years ago) link
but I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth at my show still being on the air in any fashion at all
I'm glad I can let go of this show now. Plots were crap and the songs aren't even good now like they were in the first season especially.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 26 February 2017 10:52 (seven years ago) link
Maybe if Maddie becomes mute as a result of this I could keep going.
oh god Maddie is a monster
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 February 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link