‘Nashville’ Season 2, Episode 1: I Fall To Pieces

http://youtu.be/0eyDbOth1AE

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“Nashville” really does have the best music on television (curated last season by T Bone Burnett) and if you’re not watching, you should. They’re using songs by some top singer-songwriters.

Anyway: The last thing we saw in the Season 1 finale, Deacon snapped out in a drunken rage and fought with Rayna when she admitted he was Maddie’s father, forcing the car off the road. Two weeks later, Rayna is in an induced coma and Deacon’s in jail, with bail set at one million smackers, with him pleading guilty.

• Juliette Barnes is pissed off because it’s award season, she and Rayna are up for the same awards and “now I have to compete with the saint,” she spits. She grabs for the spotlight when she does a tribute to Rayna during her show, including a slideshow. (“Interestingly enough, you were in most of the pictures,” Avery notes acerbically as they come offstage.)

• During her rehearsal, Scarlett approaches Juliette to lend her money for Deacon’s bail. “Let him go, he’s an addict. Addicts will always break your heart,” Juliette says.

• Peggy confirms her pregnancy to Teddy, who says he wants nothing to do with the child. He offers her financial support, “but that’s it.” Later, when she goes to the ultrasound appointment alone, she learns that she miscarried. Will she tell Teddy? Nope. “I heard the heartbeat today,” she tells him.

• Teddy and Maddie have a father-daughter talk about Deacon. “He was always my Uncle Deacon, and now he’s my dad,” she says. “He’s your biological father. I’ll always be your dad,” Teddy assures her.

• Scarlett, ever loving and supportive, goes to the jail to tell her uncle she’s trying to raise his bail. Decon rebuffs her. “I’m no one’s damn father! You quit coming here!” he yells at a tearful Scarlett.

• Lamar, Rayna’s father, refuses to leave Rayna’s side. We find out Rayna’s mother died in a car crash while she was 12, while Lamar was away on business. So this is the root of the bad blood between them.

• In a flashback, we see Rayna telling her sister Tandy that she’s pregnant — and Deacon’s on a bender. Tandy encourages her not to tell Deacon. “If he knows, anything could happen.”

• Gunnar is trying to get over Scarlett, and his closeted roommate Will (who’s already made a pass at him) throws a big party to help him get over her. “I can’t just party away the way I feel,” he tells him. Will tells him he’s not hiding anything. What about that wide stance?

• Gunnar goes to Scarlett’s party at the Bluebird, and joins her onstage to sing Kim Richey’s “Why Can’t I Say Goodnight” Points for using Miss Kim! Avery looks on mopily. Is Avery going to become the good guy Scarlett needs? Stay tuned.

• Uh oh. Rayna’s blood pressure spikes as Rayna in her coma replays the crash.

• “Did you post his bail?” Scarlett asks Juliette. “I have my people working on it now,” Juliette says. Scarlett says she wishes she knew why Deacon fell off the wagon so hard. Juliette doesn’t tell her about Maddie and Deacon, which Maddie confided in her. (Does Juliette have a nefarious motive? Sometimes she does have a heart, so we’ll see.

• Doctors successfully bring Rayna out of her coma.

• Deacon’s attorney figures out Deacon wasn’t behind the wheel, Rayna was.

• Tandy find out Lamar may have set up his wife’s fatal car accident. Hmm. Wouldn’t put it past him!