What I’m Watching: Nashville (Season Premiere)

Nashville: Season 2, Episode 1 “I Fall to Pieces” (B-)

This is one show that I didn’t intensely miss during its summer hiatus, and one which I’m not entirely sure that I’d love to keep watching, though I likely will because it’s one of the shows that my fiancée and I watch together each week. Picking up where last season left off, this episode managed to hit on a number of plot points and introduce some new, worrisome threads for the various supporting players. Chris Carmack, who plays Will, is now a series regular, and his closeted sexual orientation is causing some major grief for Gunnar, who isn’t close to over Scarlett after she refused his proposal. Gunnar had a great moment with Avery when he turned his snarky comment around on him, and I’m not sure what will happen now with Scarlett as she moves on with her life while the two most prominent men in it continue to interact with her regularly. Deacon was experiencing some serious self-pity, complete with a number of flashbacks, and while he might want to punish himself with jail time, Rayna corroborating his lawyer’s suspicion that he wasn’t driving should spare him that. Juliette managed to milk Rayna’s time in the hospital for all it was worth, a truly selfish move, and befriending Maddie is an intriguing development. Teddy is extremely distracted, and Peggy lying to him about the pregnancy is immensely manipulative and sure to lead nowhere good. It’s interesting that Lamar is being given a new plotline when actor Powers Boothe is no longer a series regular, so we’ll have to see how far that goes.