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Question: Nashville actor Ed Amatrudo (who plays Juliette and Layla’s manager, Glenn Goodman) tweeted on his Twitter account that the script for the season (or series?) finale episode of Nashville will have “multiple cliffhangers!” Are the writers really that delusional to end what could possibly be the final ever episode of Nashville on multiple cliffhangers? Why don’t they bring closure to its storylines and characters? — Chris
Matt Roush: If this is true, I’m less than thrilled at the prospect of Nashville playing that tiresome let’s-try-to-top-ourselves game instead of giving this season some sort of satisfying resolution, whatever happens next. But the situation appears to be less dire than I imagined for the show, if another report bears fruit, that ABC and the Lionsgate studio have signed (of all people) Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick of thirtysomething and Once and Again fame to take over the show next year should it be renewed, which now might actually be a possibility. I enjoy Nashville as a guilty pleasure, but this sort of soapy melodrama doesn’t seem to mesh with this producing team’s deeply felt, slice-of-life approach to storytelling. I’d be fascinated to see what they might do with this world, and maybe it would end up more like Robert Altman’s 1975 movie classic, which might be a tougher sell but something I absolutely would watch.
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