Comment Archives: Last 30 Days
Re: “Caption Contest: Those Darlins Prize Pack Giveaway! [Updated]”
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning...wait, what? That's not napalm??!"
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
From a purely emtional fan.. Stay in Nashville! I live watching the background for street performers and locals that I've seen on visits to my favorite vacation city! Keep it authentic. That alone should set it apart from other dramas. Do what it takes Tennesee!
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
Oh, I wouldn't say that, Sleepy.
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
Standard Steven Hale ignorance. Seriously the worst Nashville political reporter barring, maybe, maybe, Gail Kerr.
Re: “Grand Opening: Antique Archaeology Nashville”
"S"and "fanamore" both made some nasty conclusions regarding the guys sexuality. I want them to explain why Frank has spoken about his dates with women several times on the show. Mike is married and has St least one child. I really enjoy the show. Danielle is a huge plus on the air. I will be in the store next time my wife and I visit. Nashville.
Re: “Caption Contest: Those Darlins Prize Pack Giveaway! [Updated]”
This is my baby, there are many like it, but this one is mine
Re: “Whiskey Wednesday: Angel's Envy Rye — In a Word ... Wow!”
They're all talking about Rittenhouse, John G. I'm probably the only commenter who's had it besides you and warned: "If you're an absolute purist about your whiskeys, this may not be the one for you because you might be put off by the almost gingerbready character."
Different tastes for different folks...
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
Steve Buchanan is NASHVILLE's executive producer, not THE producer. He's not about to speak out, other than perhaps anonymously, due to a previous, analogous lapse of judgment not related to the series (Stay tuned...)
CBS' Criminal Minds and NBC's Chicago Fire beat out NASHVILLE's season finale at a time the series needed an explosion of viewers, if not the benefit of the explosion staged last month at the intersection of Granny White Pike and Battlefield Drive (doubtlessly annoying locals who don't value noise, traffic delays and detours).
Keep in mind that production of the finale wrapped while the prospect of cancellation was still looming, thus the pressure to write a script that tied up the plot lines' "loose ends" while simultaneously providing a cliffhanger that could, with luck, launch (sustained interest in) new episodes.
My sister is not a country-music fan but she loves NASHVILLE- and not because her sister was cast in a couple of episodes as a paid extra during Season One (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4239537/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4). She is among a legion of the show's fans who don't live in Tennessee and don't care where Nashville is filmed (apart from being happy whenever her sister gets TV work).
Good acting (and NASHVILLE certainly has that) and good scripts, I'm guessing, are the key to retaining my sister's interest in the series. (My focus on my sister is because I believe she is the typical NASHVILLE viewer to the extent that there is such a thing.)
Second season scripts will make or break NASHVILLE. Sadly, all of the bed-hopping during Season One episodes neither supports nor sustains the penchant for realism that has taken the series as far as it has gone. Same is true of the whole paternity issue subplot. How paternity could be kept secret for 13 years only to "suddenly" surface following an overheard conversation followed by a discovery of the hidden evidence fails to answer why all of the conversations on the subject prior to the overheard one were completely discreet (THAT was not by accident) and how evidence, discreetly and successfully hidden all of that time, was suddenly unearthed by someone who was not looking for it. (Tim McGraw should have been a production consultant on this one.)
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
@Jimbo: What you're saying is that white people should leave black predators alone.
No genius, what I am saying is that you need not differentiate between white and black (or whatever) predators. Otherwise you appear to be quite the racist, to all who are smart enough to comprehend inferred racism.
Is what your saying that it is O K to pursue black predators and ignore white ones? And why?
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Donna; pardon me if I seem ungracious, but the bitch quotient in my life is lately on overdose. I do find it ironic that YOU have the audacity to call anyone phony, but self delusion and unwarranted arrogance just might be contributing factors. Tell us again about your glorious failures at journalism, coupled with a bit of name dropping!
The fact that I find you a bit over glorified and quite the dramatic aside, I took a flyer and agreed with you. Fat chance (and I'm not talking about the Jeans you wear) of that happening again.
BTW: have a nice day.........
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Country is a hijacked genre, Jim, populated by phonies. Put on a pair of cowboy boots for every photo -- instant country. Of course, Jim, you couldn't resist insult, being the phony "liberal" you are. But here's an example of the farce we're treated to daily on radio -- I'm not criticizing this singer, by the way; this is not her doing, and I like her and her music a lot:
Years ago, I was looking at country CDs in an Alanta-area store and saw a CD of new Jo Dee Messina music. A note blazoned across the front of the CD announced the disc contained Messina's "hit, number-one single," the one about bye, bye, my rearview mirror's torn off, etc., etc. I love that song, it deserved to be a hit -- when it was. The thing is, when I first saw that CD and the note on the front, that song hadn't even charted yet!
The "hits" are determined for us beforehand. That's why radio stations have been relentlessly playing the new George Strait single for months, trying to get it to number one, because the number "60" means something for George right now. Again, George isn't behind this, and it's a great song, but I mean, I'm tired of hearing it at this point, especially when some other great songs get broadcast two or three times and we never hear them again.
Sorry. Don't get me started.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
''Anything that eliminates predators of any stripe or spot is good."' probably , you will be a perfect target, son of a bitch, you predate the truth and common sense at any post..lol dumb cunt
Re: “Husk Nashville Opens Tonight”
Tonight's menu, in a photo from @HSeanBrock on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/hseanbrock/status/3376…
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
@Kosh III: If you drive a car you support corporations, if you ride a bus you support corporations, if you eat food not home grown you support corporations. If you eat food that is home grown you support corporations because the feed and fertilizer you used to grow that food came from...? The shoes on your feet were made by a corporation. So you dooo support corporations. If you support the idea that 1/25th of 1% increase in CO2 is going to ruin the planet then you should read this link to Newsweek: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/21/newsweek…
Everybody else: Click the link; this article is from the same set of people and organizations now telling us climate change is going to ruin everything.
Re: “Whiskey Wednesday: Angel's Envy Rye — In a Word ... Wow!”
Did any of you actually try it?
I did yesterday and I cannot say that I could have been happy to spend $10 for this particular bottle, never mind $70. The taste is almost like some kid added different kinds of candies to an OK bottle of cheap whiskey.
Not a fan, in the least, but am a fan of their Bourbon and of other high end ryes.
This is just a bad combination of flavors.
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
From a purely practical viewpoint, if production of season 2 is to crank up in July, would the producers even have time to build sets and find locations in L.A. to make it happen there? Talk about spending too much money on overtime. Now that the sets are built and locations secured here in Nashville, wouldn't they be starting from scratch to re-create that infrastructure elsewhere (California or Georgia)? Maybe they'd have time to get all that in place to move production for a potential season 3 but I doubt they could pull it off in 6 weeks to begin shooting the 2nd season.
And I also heard Connie Britton was looking at houses in Nashville. I say they're staying here.
Re: “Mayogate: The Mayo Debate Rages on Twitter”
I grew up on Miracle Whip, and I still cherish the flavor I remember, with paprika and more vinegar tartness compared to mayo.
However, too many chemicals in that product. Not just sugar, but "spice" and "natural flavor," which could be any kind of flavor enhancer, including glutamates -- a headache trigger for me.
Generally I prefer Hellman's but doctored with lemon juice or extra vinegar. Maybe a shot of a good, grassy-flavored olive oil.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Just speaking from my own perspective but the "Nashville" set dressers and location scouts have been very kind to Grimey's. We've sold them thousands of records & CDs in bulk to dress sets. Several of the cast shop here and have brought friends in with them. I've talked to numerous tourists about how much they love the show. I've got a guy in Pennsylvania driving his dad's country record collection to Nashville to sell to me because he wants to sell his daddy's records to the store where Deacon shops (he read about us in a People magazine feature on where the 'Nashville' stars go in Nashville). So from where I sit the show has been berry berry good to me.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
AnglRdr: Hell, most of the pretty boys and girls are b and c level "rock"stars! I find myself in the unenviable and quite distasteful case of agreeing with Donna. What passes for Country today, passed for poor pop in the past!
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
Nashville's news stations are most definitely capable of filling "three hours of morning news, an hour of noon time news, 90 minutes of evening news and 30 minutes of 10 p.m. news" (not to mention one hour of news at 9 p.m.)
The fact that, in the quest for repetition, they are not really doing so (WSMV noon infomercial-dominated hour- condescendingly passed off as news- being the most egregious example) is another matter...
If the FCC required that every (potential) story on the assignment desk be logged for viewer inspection, the truth of all of the news-worthy stories and investigations being missed would be abundantly self-evident. (The "Southern justice" practiced by our court system alone would provide sufficient fodder.)
I have followed Dennis Ferrier's career at WSMV since the days he wore glasses. (Hey, I'm a news junkie...) When I met Mr. Ferrier during a NATAS nomination party he seemed quite nice and a little more subdued than he appears to be on (what, during the ol' analog days we used to call) the tube since he ditched his glasses.
My only other (near) encounter with Mr. Ferrier occurred via email several years ago when I was writing about a news event and wanted to give proper credit to the reporter who broke the story. The email was sent to Dennis Ferrier and Scott Couch as each was claiming an "exclusive."
The content and tone of the email of the single email, copied (not blind-copied) to each reporter (if I remember correctly, Mr. Couch was employed by Channel 5 at the time) was exactly the same: I indicated my interest in giving credit where credit was due, that by definition there could be only one "exclusive" and, having informed both gentlemen of my dilemma, would each be so kind as to clarify his disclosure timeline for me.
Scott Couch wrote me a detailed response indicating, as Howard Baker might put it, what he knew and when he knew it.
I'm still awaiting Dennis Ferrier's reply...
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com