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icepixieRayna can't sell out big venues because she's day-old doughnuts, but she's got a squeaky clean image. Juliette's tour is collapsing around her ears because she's a shoplifter, but she's still extremely popular. GEE. I WONDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THESE TWO LADIES.
I see Avery is going the route of not wanting help from anyone, up by his bootstraps, more, much more than this, I did it myyyyyy waaaaaaaay. Which is a bit of a change from, "Hey, Mr. Producer, let me introduce myself," last week. Oh well. Everything to do with him, Scarlett, and Gunnar bores me, so this is just another flavor of boring. (Okay, well, Gunnar vowing to make things awkward with Hailey and stuffing the fridge with "his" yogurt was cute.)
That was the most obvious bit of misdirection ever with Teddy and Peggy in the car at the end. Obviously they didn't have an affair, no matter what the show says. (Well, okay, there's an outside chance they had an affair and had a baby they gave up for adoption or something, but I think it's unlikely.) Perhaps she was involved in Teddy's numerous shady financial dealings.
I think much of the story in re: Rayna/Deacon/Teddy was supposed to have be conferred via the various glances they were shooting each other during the song, but I am sadly not fluent in glance-ese, so I just wound up wondering how the hell we got to Teddy being all "OMG DEACON" and Rayna vowing to fire him. Was this just because of the three-way fight? Because honestly that didn't seem that bad; given some of the dialogue, it honestly sounded like they'd had this fight before.
Do you get the impression I didn't like this episode?
There were some decent moments. I liked Coleman as Deacon's sponsor. Teddy's admission to Rayna that he married her because she "dazzles" him was nice, and explains a lot about their marriage. Deacon and Scarlett's conversation about people growing at different rates was actually reasonably well-placed commentary on him and Rayna, without being too inyerface. I could sort of see all the moves that were coming in Juliette's story, but I thought they were executed well. At this point, I might actually have more sympathy for Juliette than Rayna, which I was not expecting when the pilot aired.
I see Avery is going the route of not wanting help from anyone, up by his bootstraps, more, much more than this, I did it myyyyyy waaaaaaaay. Which is a bit of a change from, "Hey, Mr. Producer, let me introduce myself," last week. Oh well. Everything to do with him, Scarlett, and Gunnar bores me, so this is just another flavor of boring. (Okay, well, Gunnar vowing to make things awkward with Hailey and stuffing the fridge with "his" yogurt was cute.)
That was the most obvious bit of misdirection ever with Teddy and Peggy in the car at the end. Obviously they didn't have an affair, no matter what the show says. (Well, okay, there's an outside chance they had an affair and had a baby they gave up for adoption or something, but I think it's unlikely.) Perhaps she was involved in Teddy's numerous shady financial dealings.
I think much of the story in re: Rayna/Deacon/Teddy was supposed to have be conferred via the various glances they were shooting each other during the song, but I am sadly not fluent in glance-ese, so I just wound up wondering how the hell we got to Teddy being all "OMG DEACON" and Rayna vowing to fire him. Was this just because of the three-way fight? Because honestly that didn't seem that bad; given some of the dialogue, it honestly sounded like they'd had this fight before.
Do you get the impression I didn't like this episode?
There were some decent moments. I liked Coleman as Deacon's sponsor. Teddy's admission to Rayna that he married her because she "dazzles" him was nice, and explains a lot about their marriage. Deacon and Scarlett's conversation about people growing at different rates was actually reasonably well-placed commentary on him and Rayna, without being too inyerface. I could sort of see all the moves that were coming in Juliette's story, but I thought they were executed well. At this point, I might actually have more sympathy for Juliette than Rayna, which I was not expecting when the pilot aired.