SEASON GUIDE
4.04 "The Slender Threads That Bind Us Here"
4.05 "Stop The World (And Let Me Off)"
4.06 "Please Help Me I’m Fallin’"
4.07 "Can’t Get Used To Losing You"
4.08 "Unguarded Moments"
4.09 "Three’s A Crowd"
4.10 "We’ve Got Nothing But Love To Prove"
4.07 "Can’t Get Used To Losing You"
(Directed by Eric Close, written by Dana Greenblatt)
Rating: 7/10 (B-)
With Jeff falling to his death in the final moments of the previous episode,"Can’t Get Used To Losing You" is mostly about the aftermath of his death. As she has done every morning for a while now, Juliette wakes up hungover and completely oblivious to what is going on around. She is woken up by the police who inform her about Jeff’s passing and is convinced she spent the entire night in her hotel room when asked about her whereabouts. For the most part, she acts like her usual egocentric and bitchy self until her memory returns through various triggers, one of them being Colt storming into her room and telling her he saw her on the roof.
It was great that Nashville allowed Juliette’s storyline to develop slowly and depict depression as the tedious and horrible disease that it is but I’m relieved she is finally getting the help she needs. If being culpable for someone’s death wouldn’t have snapped her back into reality, then I don’t know what would have. So.. This is it for Juliette, at least for now, as Hayden Panettiere is currently on medical leave. She has been a strong presence on Nashville from the very beginning, so I’m quite excited to see what the show looks like without her. It’s still unclear when she will return but I’m glad that once she does, she will be the Juliette we have all grown to love (to hate) over the last few seasons.
Elsewhere we have Deacon buying into Frankie’s bar, leaving Rayna upset and worried which is understandable but I think we can all rest easy that Deacon will most certainly never, ever relapse again. His sister died donating her liver to her. Having a drink would ruin his character and I don’t think he’d able for forgive himself. Maybe a bar isn’t the best new business venture for him but he’s doing it for Beverly and the music and Rayna eventually comes around to support him, although she still looked a bit apprehensive anout it during their hug.
Over in Atlanta, Layla is devastated and meets Jeff’s soulless sister who shuts her out completely and forbids her see his body. She even asks Juliette for help who projects her own emotional baggage on Layla and tells her to forget him and pretend their relationship never happened. She makes her way to Nashville, comes home to an apartment filled with boxes, is comforted by Will and Rayna and ends the episode with what is probably Nashville’s most heartfelt song in the entire series.
Layla has grown tremendously on me this season and I’m anxiously awaiting the moment she finds out about Juliette’s involvement in her beau’s death. I hope she does some investigating on her own since she said a bajillion times that his death doesn’t make sense and it’d be kind of weird for the show to drop her suspicions without Layla looking into how Jeff died.
Luke spends the night with Gabrielle while Colt is all alone, drunk and scared about what he had witnessed. Of course, Luke doesn’t believe him and takes Juliette’s word over his, creating some tension between the father-son duo when it turns out Colt was right all along. Not only does Luke lose his son’s trust, he also expects him to keep quiet about everything because he doesn’t want to tarnish his precious new brand. I’m not sure Colt can handle this kind of responsibility, I’m not even sure he is fully aware of the gravity of the situation but one thing I do know is, sooner or later, this will backfire and (deservedly) blow up in Luke’s face. And it can’t happen soon enough.
Scarlett gets quite the makeover this week. She cuts off her long, lucious locks and exchanges it for a pixie cut. That new image seemed to have boosted her confidence as she sassily dismisses Noel’s comment about the change and harshly tells Gunnar to stay focused on the tour.
I’m not sure what to think about her relationship with Caleb anymore. We all know there’s an expiration on it but another problem I have is I just do not care for Caleb. When he was agitated during the first dinner, I just didn’t care. And when he apologized to Scarlett, I didn’t care about it either. Something needs to change to make this relationship more engaging or they should just get it over with and write Caleb off.
"Can’t Get Used To Losing You" wasn’t the most engaging episode but it did what it set out to do by delivering a nice tribute to a not-so-nice character and serving as a starting point for various future storylines.
Other thoughts/stuff/remarks/observations/whatever you wanna call this section:
- Having your phone on the table during a dinner is rude. I don’t care how busy you are, it’s just straight out rude.
- Bratty Maddie is back next week. Ugh.
- Will and Avery don’t get to do much other than bond over their broken hearts in this episode. But I will say this: They kind of look cute together. I know, it’s not gonna happen. But I’m totally boarding this ship, even if it is purely platonic.
- What does Gunnar always end up dating the women he works with? First Scarlett, then Zoey and now Erin. This is not gonna end well.
- So I guess Kevin isn’t coming around no more?
