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"Note to all the ladies on Nashville: Just because you&amp;#x27;re wearing big hats doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you have to act Victorian. Last night&amp;#x27;s episode caused an issue that&amp;#x27;s been tugging at my TV subconscious for a couple weeks now to bubble up to the surface and smack me across the face. What&amp;#x27;s with all the women on Nashville being such wimps lately? Let&amp;#x27;s review. Rayna went to her father for money so she could buy Edgehill out of her label. Now he&amp;#x27;s in jail, his assets are frozen, and she&amp;#x27;s screwed. I never liked this story line, not from the get-go. Characters can grow and change as a series progresses, but let&amp;#x27;s not forget that one of the first things we ever learned about Rayna James was that she didn&amp;#x27;t want her daddy&amp;#x27;s money. I just didn&amp;#x27;t buy this twist, and what made it extra lame for me was: The bottom line with this plot point is one man pissed her off, and to escape him, she appealed to another&amp;#x27;s bank account. Then there&amp;#x27;s this random lady, who&amp;#x27;s like, &amp;quot;Me no talk business&amp;amp;#8212;me can&amp;#x27;t do math!&amp;quot; Like there wasn&amp;#x27;t another way for Rayna to hit a fundraising wall at the polo match. Do better, Nashville. Juliette, try as she dern might, can&amp;#x27;t stay away from a married man. Um, I might have a little more sympathy if he had an ounce of charisma or a more specific accent. Homeboy mostly stands around gaping at vistas. What are you looking at, Wentworth? But here&amp;#x27;s the best part about that: It&amp;#x27;s all his bitch wife&amp;#x27;s fault. She doesn&amp;#x27;t like Tennessee, and she slapped him! Of course it&amp;#x27;s OK if he cheats on her. Right? I really need Scarlett to buck up. I get that we&amp;#x27;re supposed to see how overwhelming sudden stardom can be, but the point has been made. She&amp;#x27;s humble. We get it. She doesn&amp;#x27;t have to approach the entire thing like a shy five-year-old who&amp;#x27;s afraid to thank the host parents after a birthday party. Time to engage the spine. (P.S. I have no complaints about her sleeping with Avery. Avery might be my new favorite character. From worst to first!) It&amp;#x27;s not that Deacon&amp;#x27;s new lawyer GF has done anything wrong&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;#x27;s that she just is wrong. Perhaps I&amp;#x27;ll turn out to be mistaken, but what I smell coming down the path with this one is the same thing that happened with Deacon&amp;#x27;s vet ladyfriend. We give him a stable, smart, beautiful woman; we test her Rayna-tolerance; we eventually watch her walk away because he just can&amp;#x27;t commit to someone so boring and well-adjusted with shiny Rayna walking around. I don&amp;#x27;t like when women are brought onto the show just to look dull compared with Rayna, and this development smacks of that tactic. Let&amp;#x27;s just get to the part where Deacon pushes her away, yelling, &amp;quot;LEAVE ME BE! CAN&amp;#x27;T YOU SEE I&amp;#x27;M NO GOOD?&amp;quot; Oh, and Zoey&amp;amp;#8212;whose name I&amp;#x27;ve barely learned yet&amp;amp;#8212;is already my new least favorite character. Are we really supposed to believe Scarlett&amp;#x27;s oldest, dearest friend, the daughter of a preacher, would immediately home in on her ex? And then perform a bumbling monologue on &amp;quot;girl code,&amp;quot; and then go right back to gunning for Gunnar? I hate everything about everything. The show isn&amp;#x27;t back until Nov. 13, which gives all the ladies plenty of time to grow a set. Of ovaries. Y&amp;#x27;all are leaving Tandy, the new queen of steel nerves, in the lurch. Anyone else picking up on this?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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