Posted by Dustin on 04.17.2013 at 5:03 pm

I thought tonight’s “Nashville” was new so I was going to hold out and post about last week’s and tonight’s episodes together. However it’s not new, it’s a repeat. So is next’s weeks. So I am posting about last week’s episode and then adding upcoming spoilers below.

Rayna got the news that her father had a heart attack, so she and the girls headed home. Avery meanwhile showed up as a roadie on Juliette’s tour of course. While everyone felt Juliette should cancel out of respect, Dante pushed her to use this as her big break . . . after all the tour was originally hers. She then drilled the crew on new songs and berated them for every mistake. Deacon had it and put it in her place for acting like a spoiled brat.

Later as Avery was ordered to search high and low for the queen’s ear microphones, he accidentally saw Dante screwing someone in Juliette’s trailer . . . but we didn’t see WHO. We assumed it was Juliette, I thought it might be her mom Jolene. However Dante immediately fired him later on, but Deacon rehired him and then put Juliette and Dante in their places again. Later Jolene did kiss Dante, which Juliette saw and went postal over. It seems she and her mom have been down a similar road before, so she sent her mom home and planned to get her a new female companion. She however was keeping Dante who was now her manager. So I don’t think it was Jolene he was messing around with, but I also don’t think it was Juliette! The guy is just bad news and seems to be on a power trip.

Deacon left the tour it seems, sending Stacey home with a key. He made comments that it was time for him to hang up the road thing, perhaps find a more permanent and settled gig in town. He also dropped by the hospital to check on Rayna, who was staying with her dad. Rayna got a shock when she learned that Whitey White was the other man in her mom’s life. Her mom packed her bags and left her dad for him the night she got into the accident that killed her. This is why he’s never supported her career, why they’ve always been so distant. She reminded him too much of what he’d lost.

Rayna’s older sister Tandy took over her father’s finances and the company while he was in the hospital. She also found the documents Lamar had on Teddy and how his and Rayna’s divorce got leaked. She went straight to Teddy to give him the shock that it was his precious Peggy who had betrayed him! Finally Teddy got knocked down a little, but not enough as far as I’m concerned.

Elsewhere Scarlett signed the contract with Rayna, and then Gunnar took her out to celebrate and get drunk. Their new neighbor Will joined them. As the episode ended, Gunnar finally started writing new music. However I don’t trust this Will guy at all. I think he’s up to something! I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up stealing Gunnar’s songs.

Read on for the spoilers for the new episode on May 1st.

DEACON COMES TO A RECKONING ABOUT RAYNA, AND JOLENE SUSPECTS DANTE IS CHEATING ON JULIETTE, ON ABC’S “NASHVILLE”

Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Michiel Huisman, Susan Misner, Chris Carmack and Jay Hernandez, Guest Star

“Take These Chains from My Heart” – Liam invites Rayna to run away with him to finish her album, and Deacon is surprised by his own reaction, as well as Stacy’s accusations; Jolene warns Juliette about Dante’s loyalty, which only drives the two women further apart; Teddy faces off with Peggy about the leaks, and in the wake of her father’s illness, Tandy proposes a new alliance to Coleman. Meanwhile Gunnar tries out some new music, and Avery and Scarlett reconnect, on “Nashville,” WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Guest starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Peggy Kenter, Michiel Huisman as Liam, Susan Misner as Stacey Douglas, Sylvia Jeffries as Jolene, Jay Hernandez as Dante Rivas, Judith Hoag as Tandy, Maisy Stella as Daphne, Lennon Stella as Maddie, Chris Carmack as Will Lexington, David Alford as Bucky Dawes and Kourtney Hansen as Emily.