Nashville is Good.

[Guy Gardener]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2281375/

I'm seeing a lot of fairly talented actors, portraying smart, vain, proud, desperate, troubled, fragile characters opening up to many overlapping stories which spell equally potential doom or glory that are not going to be concluded in 38 minutes or less. Well written and a lot of money backing up all that potential.

Someone is writing a big story for smart people who pay attention.

The music isn't awful but Hayden still hasn't cracked 5 feet.

 

[Nick Ryder]

She sorta reminds me of Michelle Trachtenberg in that she never seemed to 'grow up' from the little girl she played on an earlier series. Even now Michelle still seems like she could slip into the high school student role. I see Hayden sort of being the same way.

What is it with some of those child actors that almost seem to STAY child actors? She could be 40 with a teenager of her own and she'd still look like the 'kid'

 

[Guy Gardener]

Blaire was talking to little Dawny on Gossip Girl the other day... "I'm sorry, I think I may need a translator, because I don't speak psychotic bitch."

Laughed my ass off.

Nashville is not the Hayden Panettierre show, that girl is more like Joan Collins from Dynasty showing up at the last minute was a brilliant line and the committal of an act so depraved all the goody goods blush and make the sign of a cross in absolute terror.

Larry Hagman with boobs.

(I was dissapointed with NuDallas.)

I'm getting a more hill Street Blue level of quality here (Although the pilot could have tricked me. The last thing Connie Britton was in fooled me good.) where smart people do smart things, more so than a desperate housewives vibe where idiots do idiot contentions which ends up with naked Terri Hatcher falling into wedding cakes twice a season.

(Olkay, maybe three times in 8 years, but com'on!)

 

[Thestral]

Nashville's pilot is very good and I hope they can keep up the quality. Connie Britton is golden of course, and Hayden Panettierre's ingenue-villainess-evil-Taylor-Swift character actually has a briefly glimpsed other side with her family problems and her apparent genuine love of the stripped-down bluegrassy sound. Britton's conniving patriarch father Lamar (I almost died laughing at the name, by the way, nice reference there) makes for a great villain himself. And Nashville itself is just lovingly shown off.

The music might be a turnoff to some folks of course and I'm not that big into country myself, but it's worth it imo. And the "climactic" music scene is a really great cover of a song by The Civil Wars.

 

[Captain Craig]

I missed it and of course had to see every other post on my FB feed about it cause I apparently was the only local who wasn't watching it.

I intend to view it as soon as I can though. Glad to hear good things about it.

 

[the G-man]

The music might be a turnoff to some folks of course and I'm not that big into country myself, but it's worth it imo.

From what I understand, the music isn't typical FM radio "country" music but stuff produced by the never less than excellent T-bone Burnett.

 

[Admiral2]

It's Smash with country music. I already hate Smash. Pass.

 

[marksound]

Nice aerial shots of the town, but I fell asleep shortly after it started.

I used to live in Nashville and my wife and I (together and separately) have friends in the business. When I asked her what she thought, she said it was ok but cliched. We'll see how it pans out.

At least we don't have to see that damned promo every 5 minutes any more.

 

[lennier1]

Gave up on it halfway through.
It had some good writing and nice plot ideas, but a show about one whiny bitch that's constantly complaining about another one?
I already have more than enough of that at work every day.

 

[Kosh Naranek]

I liked the pacing of the first episode enough to tune in next week.

Powers Booth was great as the string pulling father.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Very strong writing. I enjoyed it and will keep watching. The music was surprisingly good. Powers Booth is eeeeevil. The cheerleader is now a tart.

Is one of Connie Britton's character's daughters from an affair? Something in Booth's dialogue seemed to suggest there was some kind of secret he covered up for her.