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review of Nashville 5.1
review of Nashville 5.1
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress: Nashville 5.1 on CMT: Country Noir
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
Hey, I know it\'s not the usual kind of show I review here, but what I can say, the music is great, and so are most of the storylines and all of the acting. And, in its sneak preview of a new season on a new network - CMT -
First, the feel is a little more cinematic and a little less soap-operatic, which I take as a good thing. Rayna is traveling though some town on her own at beginning and the end of the episode, and there\'s an old, blind guy a gas station singing "Wayfaring Stranger," a real folksong from the 19th century. (I used to sing a doo-wop version called "Travelin\' Stranger" in the alcove at CCNY in the early 1960s.) It\'s a great, plaintiff song, and it captures the new Nashville mood perfectly: serious, moody, but not gaudy.
Juliette didn\'t die in the crash - everyone has to know that, by now, or figured that it would be that way - but her near death will make her an even deeper character. She was deepening anyway in the previous season, but now she\'s also back with Avery, and their baby, which promises a good story ahead.
Gunnar and Scarlett are also together now - great to see - and although they didn\'t sing anything in the first episode, they spent lots of time with Maddie and Daphne, who sound more like angels than ever. And sounding like an angel is a theme of this 5th season debut, as Juliette finds the angelic voice who kept her alive after the crash.
So, yeah, I\'m really glad Nashville got rescued by CMT, and happy they put up this sneak preview - the first hour - of the proper two-hour premiere of the 5th season of Nashville which wel\'ll see in early January.
And I\'ll be back here much sooner with reviews of my more usual fare - The Affair, The Man in the High Castle second season, and the Nordic Noir masterpiece, Dicte.
See also Nashville in New York City: Reality Even Better than Fiction
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Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. His 8 nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009, 2nd edition 2012), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into 12 languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, ebook 2012), Borrowed Tides (2001), TheConsciousness Plague (2002, 2013), The Pixel Eye (2003), The Plot To SaveSocrates (2006, ebook 2012), and Unburning Alexandria (2013). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC), NPR, and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 album, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued in 2009 (CD) and 2010 (remastered vinyl). He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Top 10 Academic Twitterers” in 2009.
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Dear Paul, I just dreamed of airships flying between raindrops. I just returned from 2042 CE, where I sold my hardcover copy of The Plot to Save Socrates for seventy million Neo-Euros, because it had your response to this e-mail from way back in 2007 scotch-taped onto the inside of the cover. A Paul Levinson collector paid top Neo-Euro, because of the authentic archaic e-mail printout from you. It turns out that not many of your e-mails from before your tenure as CEO of HBO/Cinemax and terms as United Nations Secretary General will survive that far into the future. So, please respond to this e-mail, to help found my great-grandchildren\'s fortune. My Will will stipulate that they must share with your great grandchidren. Thanks! Tom
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Paul Levinson appears on "The O\'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," "Nightline" (ABC), the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "The Dylan Ratigan Show" (MSNBC) and frequently on NPR and all-news radio...
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