

According to Brad, she’s an enabler and she likens him to a drill sergeant. They argue about their disparate parenting styles with teenage son Jake, whom we learn has ADHD. When she goes back there, however, her brutish ex-husband, Brad, shows up uninvited. She seems like she would rather just be at home. He wants to hear the new song she’s been working on, but their studio session together turns out to be pretty awkward. Scarlett, of course, finds her inner ninja, and rains blows down upon the instructor, who tells the rest of the class, “Don’t mess with this woman, she’s stronger than she looks.”ĭeacon and Jessie, meanwhile, spend most of their time occupied with coffee, therapy and plot exposition. They may be too few and far between but when they hit, they definitely connect. “It’s getting a lot of different kinds of help from a lot of different people.” It’s lines of real, honest wisdom such as this that continue to keep us tuned in to Nashville. “The opposite of being with someone isn’t doing everything all alone,” he says. Scarlett admits to Deacon that she feels like a failure, but Deacon, who has learned to live an entirely different way in the last few months, assures her that there’s no shame in asking for help. Naturally, Juliette isn’t acknowledging her guilt as much as her annoyance that her effort to make nice with Maddie via Twitter has apparently fallen on deaf ears and that she has “conveniently forgotten all the things I’ve done for her.” But, as a wise minor character in this week’s visit to Music City says, “If you’re defending yourself, you’re already past nice.” At Juliette’s house, things are a lot more subdued. Her joy is short-lived, however, when she discovers that one of her fellow nominees is none other than song-thieving, back-stabbing Juliette. When Maddie finds out she’s been nominated for an American Music Award, she’s thrilled. And while the words “home” and “safe” should conjure the same internal tranquility, for Gunnar and Scarlett in this week’s episode of Nashville that certainly isn’t the case.Īs the episode begins, nearly everyone is feeling disconnected, if not from each other, then from their own emotional center, making it impossible to connect on anything other than a surface level.

It’s where the WiFi connects automatically. As Dorothy reminds us, there’s no place like it.
