11/17/2023 0 Comments Charles esten in jessie![]() ![]() I go out of my way to avoid people like that.ĭeacon shows up and he’s not happy with Jessie at all, until she tells him about her miscarriages and then he feels like a jerk. My conclusion: Jessie Caine is the kind of intense friend you can only have really deep conversations with. She invites her in and the two have a major bonding session over miscarriages, self-care, and cervixes with dunce caps (you had to be there). At first, it’s kind of awkward and borderline confrontational between the two of them - in fairness, I’d freak out too if some rando left a gift on my porch - but then Jessie mentions that she had two miscarriages and Scarlett softens. (Deacon had let news of Scarlett’s miscarriage slip out to her earlier.) Jessie just meant to drop off a “sorry you miscarried” gift basket at Scarlett’s door (does Edible Arrangements make those?), but Scarlett noticed her, which is actually my worst nightmare when I’m trying to be stealthy. Meanwhile, Scarlett receives an unexpected visitor: Jessie Caine. He lets Skippy go and the little scamp runs off, hopefully rewarding Gunnar’s restraint by one day fulfilling his destiny and winning the Fields Medal. (Sidebar: How did Gunnar know the kid wasn’t still packing?) Anyway, Gunnar starts wailing on the kid, who cries and says, “Please don’t hurt me” and then we have one of those dramatic scenes we’ve all seen thousands of times on TV where, in the midst of a rage frenzy, the hero freezes, fist poised, and realizes this is not who he wants to be. “Where’s your gun now?” Gunnar growls, slamming the kid against a wall. The first is Deacon still having an answering machine in 2017.) (This is the second most unrealistic part of the episode. Then he drives around the neighborhood - just a creepy guy driving slowly in a car, nothing to see here - and actually finds him. First he waits at the Quikie-Mart, hoping the kid might show. ![]() Gunnar does something super-stupid and decides to go all Charles Bronson (ask your father) on the mugger himself. Mathletes don’t kill people, mathletes with guns do. She keeps pushing Gunnar away, in particular, which is hard on him because he feels guilty for not protecting her more during the mugging. Scarlett’s boys - Deacon and Gunnar, that is - are being totally supportive and amazing (raise your hand if you positively swooned when Deacon scooped Scarlett up and carried her to the car), but she wants to be left alone with her grief. Huh? In the wake of Rayna’s death that wasn’t related to her crazed stalker, Nashville now has this weird habit of what I’ll call existential misdirections. Let’s get to the sad stuff first, shall we? Scarlett loses the baby and somehow it’s not because she was mugged and roughly knocked to the ground the day before. Camp just ain’t what it used to be, people. What’s more, the slap is a whole lot less fun when the slapper feels rightfully betrayed and the slapee is filled with guilt and self-loathing. Maddie and Juliette are friends! If anything, Juliette has acted in loco parentis to Maddie. Also, there isn’t some fabulous, Krystle Carrington–Alexis Colby (ask your mother) rivalry here. For starters, it happens in the midst of one of the saddest episodes of the season, which says a lot considering that this is the season that Rayna died. I have long dreamed of a juicy catfight on Nashville, but tonight’s slap just didn’t get the job done.
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