Most of Season Three was centered around the discovery of Deacon’s liver cancer, which could only be treated with a transplant.
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Tonight’s fourth-season premiere picks up one month after May’s third-season finale.
The crisis of the final seconds of the finale last season were due to Beverly’s dire situation, and now that Deacon has survived, it seems there should be a sigh of relief, but he can not bear Beverly’s almost death, and goes to be with her in her hospital room, causing no one to be able to locate him. This is understandably enough to greatly worry her relatives: brother Deacon who sleeps in a chair next to her bed, and her estranged daughter Scarlett. During a drunken breakdown, she calls Rayna. Gotta say those entourage party scenes are pretty fun, as are the weeping phone calls in the mirrored bathroom.
According to the executive producer, Deacon’s one great love Rayna (Connie Britton) will have a hard time adjusting to the changes happening in her personal and professional life.
Later, Rayna flew out to Los Angeles to try to help Juliette, but Juliette gave Rayna a very cold reception when they met up backstage at the Staples Center.
“They’ve come through so much after so long”, Charles revealed.
Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) is soaking up Hollywood glamor – including a duet with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith – while continuing to ignore husband Avery (Jonathan Jackson) and their newborn child. But if we’ve learned anything from Christina Aguilera’s Jade St. John (if that isn’t a soap-opera name, I don’t know what is), stunt-casting will not save this show. The two kiss and Scarlett wonders if it was Gunnar’s intention to force something to happen between them. His country career was on hold, but his boyfriend, Kevin, got Will out of the house for dinner at a nice restaurant.
Back at the Highway 65 office, Rayna isn’t about to engage with Juliette and her sound bite that says leaving the label was “the best move she ever made”. The sole bright spot of the entire episode is Beverly coming out of her coma, and she’s not even a character anyone likes. “I’m just putting that out there”.
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“And I think that those are going to be flip-flopped a little bit as we begin the season….” She’s excited to be getting a ton of attention, but she also hates that Layla is along for the ride.
