Christina Aguilera is still hanging around Nashville as her character Jade St. John, the pop star looking for country music legitimacy, but at the Bluebird that’s only ever one story being told. This week sees the potential for a new liver transplant, a big charity gala, band auditions, a li’l bit of gay sex and a lot of Daphne Conrad without any of her family to help her perform. Only Andrew and Johnny can navigate waters as deep and soapy as these.
064 - THIS JUST AIN'T A GOOD DAY FOR LEAVIN'
Juliette’s baby shower is thwarted by a murder, a cancer, a tour and some private investigations. Andrew details Johnny’s nefarious backstory, Johnny reminds us of how you cannot simply steal nail polish, and eventually everyone gets along with the popular TV show Nashville.
063 - I CAN'T KEEP AWAY FROM YOU
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of opening a fresh episode of Nashville and smelling the aromas inside. This week, with Season 3 Episode 16, the familiar scents include Rayna and Deacon in their remote home together, Gunnar, Scarlett and Avery on the road, two more recent characters randomly meeting to pad a run time, and Juliette Barnes in Facetime: The Shot Three Scenes In Two Hours Story.
062 - THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES
Rayna’s celebrating 10 years of being part of The Grand Ole Opry with a concert, whilst Layla and Jeff plan Layla Grant’s next career move, Scarlett goes on a Doctor Date and, hey, why don’t Avery and Gunnar spend an episode thinking of band names? Don’t fret, Andrew regails us with memories of his friendship with Colton ‘Colt’ Wheeler, a young man Andrew has had the pleasure of witnessing at the breakfast table wearing a baseball cap. That’s real intimate friendship there.
061 - SOMEBODY PICK UP MY PIECES
Goodbye Edgehill-brick road, where the beancounters of Harvard hound. You can’t plant me in your record label, I’m going back to Nashville!
There’s a huge fallout when the big label is disbanded, every artist is up for grabs, and somehow Jeff Fordham the bean counter from Harvard has sparked a love affair with the way-too-young woman he pushed to near-suicide just weeks ago. Andrew dives deep into his own bad-time-at-a-job experiences, and Johnny runs through so many different storylines in this packed episode about a packed episode.
060 - I'M LOST BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG
Happy 2022, we’re dusting off the old year with a watch of Season 3 Episode 13 of Nashville, featuring Deacon’s sadsack cancer prognosis, Avery the producer being micro-managed by Bucky with the no hair, Rayna versus Jeff Fordham, the bean counter from Harvard, over who has daughter Maddie’s musical contract, and hey for good measure why not a new addition to the Bungalow Bachelor Boys? It’s all happening in Tennessee this week.
056 - FIRST TO HAVE A SECOND CHANCE
It’s wedding time for Luke and Rayna in the mid-season finale of Nashville Season 3, and the tours are over for the time being. Deacon and Scarlett are off to walk Memphis, Gunnar’s kid is meeting his grandparents, Layla maybe overdoses on some pills, Will proves how straight he is by cringing through sex with a woman, and why not have some big surprises and cliffhangers all around the town?
055 - TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY
It’s Winterville Nashfest in Season 3 Episode 9 of the show, and Juliette is stalking Avery, Will and Layla are trying to avoid reality TV stans, Zoe is leaving ZAG, Scarlett is forcing a homeless man to dance for a crowd, and Rayna & Luke (Layna? Ruke?) are recording their charity TV Christmas special, which sounds absolutely wonderful and not at all cringe-worthy. What larks the herald angels will sing upon this week’s Nashville outing?