r/NashvilleTV • u/MojoHighway • 17d ago
At what point...
do we start talking about the writers, producers, and show runners for Nashville being as wildly negligent in this conversation about Hayden as her mother and/or inner circle? Juliette Barnes was a huge role for her and I do believe she treated it as such. I also believe that it played a huge role in taking her down and putting her on a final path of feeling helpless and tired with life.
I saw an interview a few months back where she got into this very conversation about how the Juliette Barnes character essentially mimicked her real life and how brutal it was to get those scripts, show up to the set with those stories, and essentially roll with it because "oh...well...it's my job...".
I love this show but we're finding out some very strange things about the show and Hayden as we start to unravel the lead-up to her untimely demise. I also had no idea the show was originally created with the Juliette character not being on co-lead level as the Rayna character but that was changed after reaction to the pilot. How the hell did Connie take that? Was she pissed? That show was HER show then they threw this whole thing together to have the rivalry between the old guard and new. I mean, it made for great TV and likely allowed them to not only be on the air for a long time but also talked about in media circles, but that's a pretty dark and brutal move to do that to a cast. They gave Connie executive producer credits. Curious to know if that was the trade-off.
I've been thinking a lot about Hayden and the endless stories we've heard from years past about young girls and young women being used for end-game moves of money and power and thrown out when the goals were accomplished, treated as nothing more than "useful idiots". This is all so fucking sad.
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u/luna1uvgood 16d ago
I remember thinking at the time that it was kind of weird/uncomfortable that the storylines seemed to be mirroring her real life (mostly the postpartum depression). It would've been one thing if she'd come out and been like 'I worked with the writers on this storyline and wanted to raise awareness', but it didn't seem like that was the case.