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shipperxThank you Nashville for a season premiere that showcased every single thing that annoyed the ever-living crap out of me about the show... then doubling-down on it.
Soap Opera cliches out the whazoo.
Look, I'm okay with using genre cliches (See: Sleepy Hollow), but if you're going to use cliches, for God's sake do it in a way that shows you are in on the joke. There should be some humor and lightness to it. It should at least be FUN. Nashville is just... dire. And all of the soapiest of soap cliches are not only used straight but are treated as though they are actually supposed to be surprising.
They aren't. They weren't 30 years ago and they sure as hell are not now.
Even worse than the oh-no- it's-serious soap cliches (Come on, with coma as a plot point, there has to be an oblique Smiths reference, right?) Their #2 Mary Sue is at her Mary Sue-iest in the middle of a 'love triangle' (that re-triangulated at light speed since it's literally supposed to be 2 weeks after last season's finale which had good-guy-turned-douchebag not show up to Mary Sue's debut and generally being an asshole... and two weeks later he's whiplashed back to 'good guy' who desperately wants to win Mary Sue back because she's the love of his life. (And GH's Lucky, please, skip mooning over Mary Sue. Hayden P's character may be a bitch, but she's also the only interesting character on the show. Lucky, you were screwed enough on GH. Go quickly towards the more interesting storyline. Just sayin').
Most annoying of all, is the true central Mary Sue of the show... I swear to God, I think I freaking hate Connie Britton's character. They were LITERALLY calling her character a freaking saint and had a full-time CNN updates going on her health crisis. Christ on a popcicle stick!
Look, I loved CB on Friday Night Lights, but her Nashville character is an annoying, ever-propped, self-righteous, hypocritical know-it-all who is worshipped ceaselessly in the writing such that she's made to win everything ever. I root against her just because the show makes it so damn clear that we're supposed to think she's Mary Sue dipped in 70% dark chocolate with gold dust and unicorn sparkles. Ughh!
And I spent the last two minutes swearing that if they went through with what they were hinting (waking from a coma with convenient amnesia) I was literally going to toss something at the television set.
Egads.
Look Nashville, you don't write shit this stupid unless you're going to go all-in and make it so OTT that it does a 180 and becomes fun. This shit isn't fun. It's just stupid.
Serious doubts that I'll stick through this one through a Season 2. Only thing that has me watching now is Hayden P's (correctly executed OTT bitchiness) and GH's Lucky. Everyone else can join Boardwalk Empire's cast of repulsive characters (save Richard Harrow) slow-roasting on a spit in hell (Yes, they are that annoying.)
Soap Opera cliches out the whazoo.
Look, I'm okay with using genre cliches (See: Sleepy Hollow), but if you're going to use cliches, for God's sake do it in a way that shows you are in on the joke. There should be some humor and lightness to it. It should at least be FUN. Nashville is just... dire. And all of the soapiest of soap cliches are not only used straight but are treated as though they are actually supposed to be surprising.
They aren't. They weren't 30 years ago and they sure as hell are not now.
Even worse than the oh-no- it's-serious soap cliches (Come on, with coma as a plot point, there has to be an oblique Smiths reference, right?) Their #2 Mary Sue is at her Mary Sue-iest in the middle of a 'love triangle' (that re-triangulated at light speed since it's literally supposed to be 2 weeks after last season's finale which had good-guy-turned-douchebag not show up to Mary Sue's debut and generally being an asshole... and two weeks later he's whiplashed back to 'good guy' who desperately wants to win Mary Sue back because she's the love of his life. (And GH's Lucky, please, skip mooning over Mary Sue. Hayden P's character may be a bitch, but she's also the only interesting character on the show. Lucky, you were screwed enough on GH. Go quickly towards the more interesting storyline. Just sayin').
Most annoying of all, is the true central Mary Sue of the show... I swear to God, I think I freaking hate Connie Britton's character. They were LITERALLY calling her character a freaking saint and had a full-time CNN updates going on her health crisis. Christ on a popcicle stick!
Look, I loved CB on Friday Night Lights, but her Nashville character is an annoying, ever-propped, self-righteous, hypocritical know-it-all who is worshipped ceaselessly in the writing such that she's made to win everything ever. I root against her just because the show makes it so damn clear that we're supposed to think she's Mary Sue dipped in 70% dark chocolate with gold dust and unicorn sparkles. Ughh!
And I spent the last two minutes swearing that if they went through with what they were hinting (waking from a coma with convenient amnesia) I was literally going to toss something at the television set.
Egads.
Look Nashville, you don't write shit this stupid unless you're going to go all-in and make it so OTT that it does a 180 and becomes fun. This shit isn't fun. It's just stupid.
Serious doubts that I'll stick through this one through a Season 2. Only thing that has me watching now is Hayden P's (correctly executed OTT bitchiness) and GH's Lucky. Everyone else can join Boardwalk Empire's cast of repulsive characters (save Richard Harrow) slow-roasting on a spit in hell (Yes, they are that annoying.)
