- Network: ABC , CMT - Country Music Television
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 10, 2012
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Nashville is the best new show of the fall. [29 Oct 2012, p.37]
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[Show creator Callie Khouri] has created rich histories for each of her compelling characters. The actors give nuanced performances that make their characters more than one-dimensional cliches.
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Nashville is arguably the best-written new TV series of the fall season.
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They [Rayna and Juliette], and the other characters, are anything but [one-dimensional cliches], thanks not only to the writing but also to the performances of the colorful and capable cast.
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It has Emmy caliber performances from its two leads and an authenticity that won't quit.
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The hype is justified. Nashville's terrific.
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Nashville never strays too far from its real story--the ups and downs of glitzy stardom, with Britton and Panettiere performing their own vocals.
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Rarely does a pilot present a world as completely as Nashville does in its first hour.
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Happily, Nashville, with its unexpected intelligence and surprisingly low-key attitude, not only met all my cockamamie expectations, it exceeded them.
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The recipe may go back to your grandma or beyond, but that doesn't mean you won't eat two helpings and beg for more.
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It's a sprawling story, held together with music--though unlike Glee or Smash, most of the songs are presented on this night in truncated bursts.... While that could mean trouble, set worries aside for one night, and simply enjoy the season's best, most enjoyable new hour.
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The half-star markdown in the rating for Nashville is a knock on Panettiere, whose performance seems too broad, especially in the face of such naturalistic acting from everyone else in the cast. But that flaw can't keep Nashville from being a superb series.
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An irresistible blend of soapy shenanigans, domestic tension, political intrigue and catchy tunes.
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Nashville is the snarky showbiz drama NBC's "Smash" can only dream of becoming.
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It's a smart mix of soap opera, music and political intrigue.
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Nashville feels fresh because it catches a different tone. The few ironic winks it makes do not disfigure its straight face for quality pulp, nor does the sincerity harden into hokum.
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It feels lived-in, confident. That's a good sign.
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Nashville's was the one that made me most excited to see more episodes of the series and see how its world unfolds.
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ABC has done well in filling the time period with a show that's both sassy and smart, singing a tune we can name in three words: It's a winner.
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Nashville is big, bold, wildly ambitious and great fun, with top notes of Robert Altman's "Nashville," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "All About Eve."
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Nashville falls somewhere in between the two extremes, a story that thrives on heightened melodrama and big twists but gives its characters more depth than you generally find in network lather-fests.
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You don't have to like country to enjoy Nashville with its twisty plot threads of ego, sex, ambition, backstabbing and regret.
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It's a high-class entertainment that takes its locale and its characters seriously and treats the audience to some enjoyable music along the way.
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Nashville plays as a smartly written and well-appointed soap.
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It all blends together in an entertaining, easily digestible hour.
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Khouri's strong writing and sense of character prove the show is no mere soap--does an excellent job of identifying them [storylines] without spending too much time on them.
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What Nashville on ABC and "Arrow" on the CW have in common, is appealing characters in well-plotted stories.
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Toss in some sex and Southern-style politics, and you've got plenty to sing about.
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No such show has come even near to Glee's success. Nashville may be the exception, with its clever, even cynical, mix of middle-aged crises and youthful ambitions set in country music's Mecca.
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The depiction of the modern country music business in Nashville feels reasonably authentic, and when the story stays within that realm, it has the mix of hardheadedness, sentimentality and honky-tonk come-on you can get from a good country song.
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[ABC's] infatuation with translating the [country music] genre to series still appears questionable. Despite that, credit Nashville with crafting a reasonably catchy hook.
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While plenty of Nashville is compelling, detailed, and beautifully acted, plenty of it feels boilerplate.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 131 out of 173
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Mixed: 17 out of 173
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Negative: 25 out of 173
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