A Second Look At: Nashville

Eight episodes into its run, ABC’s Nashville is settling into a zone of narrative and musical style somewhere between Treme and Glee. (Maybe the highest compliment I can pay the show right now is that I watch it, and Smash is not the first comparison that comes to mind.) Like the former, less-watched HBO show, it wants to capture a broad sweep of the cultural life of an American city. Like the latter, more-watched Fox show, it wants to have a sleek pop sensibility (and the iTunes sales to go w...

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