Nashville bids farewell with a moving and messy series: EW review

Nashville

type

TV series

genre

Drama

date of execution

10/10/12

artist

Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten [19659004] Diffuser [19659003] CMT

seasons

6

Current State

In Season

tvpgr

TV-PG

We gave it a B +

] True soap opera locks on your heart like nothing else. This gives us the chance to revel in every detail of a character's emotional life – a luxury that most of us rarely afford. All that is saying goodbye to a particularly painful soap opera – especially when we were so close to losing it once before.

There will be no third network to save Nashville who ended his season run tonight with a sweet and sentimental finale that neatly enveloped current scenarios while offering the fix Happy always – and a surprise appearance of Rayna James – that the fans were hoping for.

As often happens with shows that last more than a few years, much of the action of The last season of Nashville was centered on characters of whom we hardly knew what it was about. Alannah (Rainee Blake), a purple-haired enchantress, who apparently got stuck between Avery (Jonathan Jackson) and Juliette (Hayden Paniettiere), finally served her narrative goal in the finale by exposing Brad Maitland (Jeffrey Nordling) a predator we all know, a gesture that also allowed Jessie (Kaitlin Doubleday) to get full custody of her son Jake, paving the way for a future with Deacon (Charles Esten). Unless, of course, Deacon decides to speak with the lovable French judge of Nashville's Next – one of the many fragments of the plot thrown to heaven as festive confetti, including the engagement of Charlotte (Clare Bowen) a man with an emo haircut (played by Brandon Young, Bowen's true husband), and the sure reunion of Will Lexington (Chris Carmack) and Zunder Welles (Cameron Scoggins)

. , Nashville has remained true to its central love story: the bittersweet saga of Deacon Claybourne and the country music superstar Rayna James (Connie Britton). After Rayna's death in Season 5, she survived Deacon's struggles – her fight to be the father of their daughters Maddie (Lennon Stella) and Daphne (Maisy Stella), to regain love, and finally, to forgive the man whose alcoholism and abuse kept him apart from Rayna for so long, his father Gideon (Ronny Cox). At first, the sudden arrival of Gideon for the last five episodes resembled a twisting of Cousin Oliver's syndrome, as if the viewers needed a lost grandfather to reinvigorate their investment in the James family. Claybourne. the last episode revealed that Gideon was there for a greater reason, the one who offered Nashies with a final visit from their queen, Ms. Rayna James (Britton returned to videotape the scenes during the last week of production. ;program). Rayna came to see Deacon as a vision (or, if we are going to have technical details, a souvenir) while he was recovering in his locker room from an unexpected encounter with his father. "Is it real?" He murmurs, and suddenly we are wrapped in a vaporous flashback on the wedding day of Deacon and Rayna. Can he really marry the love of his life, Deacon then worried, after "all this pain," mistakes and regrets that separated them so long. As always, Rayna would not let him give up or love. "It does not matter how bad you are," she murmured in her soothing light. "We must choose each other, and I choose you, just as you are, and I will love you forever … and always and forever."

Rayna James, saving the day from beyond the grave. Armed with this assurance of his beloved, Deacon realized that forgiving his father would not make him weak – on the contrary, it would make his family indestructible. The bright thread of this lesson flowed from Rayna to Juliette Barnes, the other great lady of Nashville who finally found peace with herself – and with her forever with Avery – on a farm, far away from