Newly-Reviewed Programs
TV on DVD
All Shows: A-Z Index
Advanced Search

2008-09 Midseason
2008 Fall Season
2008 Summer Season
2007-08 Midseason
2007 Fall Season
2007 Summer Season
2006-07 Midseason
2006 Fall Season
2006 Summer Season
2005-06 Midseason
2005 Fall Season
Best Of 2008
Best Of 2007
Best Of 2006
Best Of 2005
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss TV In Our Forums

The Story of India 73
PBS, 1/5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles 66
PBS, 1/4

Damages Season Two 80
FX, Wednesday

13: Fear Is Real 31
CW, Wednesday

Game Show in My Head 34
CBS, Saturday

Nashville
SERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)


7.2

based on 13 reviews
read critic reviews
how did we calculate this?

based on 12 votes
read user comments
rate this tv show

Get more information on this show at TV.com.

Official Show Site

Starring Chuck Wicks, Clint Moseley, Lindsey Hager, Matt Jenkis, Mika Combs, Rachel Bradshaw, Sarah Gunsolus, and Monty Powell, Jeff Allen and Jamey Johnson

Fox brings a reality drama for Friday, this one set in Nashville.

GENRE(S):	Reality (Non-Competitive), Soap Opera
CREATED BY:	Gary Auerbach Julie Auerbach
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 14, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

The show could grow on you quickly because those involved are actually talented and engaging on- and offstage. One upside to Nashville is that it doesn't feel as staged as "Laguna Beach" or, in particular, "The Hills," a spinoff of "Beach."

New York Daily News David Hinckley

Many of its real-life characters display a lot of talent. They also are so transparent about their emotions, whether sincere or calculating, that their social interactions play more like a scripted soap on fast forward.

Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond

It's clear that this new Fox original series has its class act together as it follows singers both on the verge or stardom and just starting out as they chase their dreams in the capital of country music.

The New York Times Virginia Heffernan

As a self-aware show, perhaps too self-aware, Nashville attends closely to the money-country nexus, mindful that it’s not your daddy’s, nor Robert Altman’s, "Nashville."

Variety Phil Gallo

The show is as directionless as its stars.

Newsday Diane Werts

This show is slickly packaged and unchallengingly trite in its slavish reality-show construction.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

It takes a while to connect to these characters, and those who show up might not be willing to stick around until the melodrama kicks in.

Washington Post John Maynard

All the slick production values and some decent music in Nashville can't make up for these one-dimensional subjects, and their angst over their fledgling careers grows tiresome.

Los Angeles Times Jon Caramanica

Almost every scene on Nashville feels ploddingly staged. Every conversation is alarmingly, and unconvincingly, topical; no scene is wasted.

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

My name is Clint, and I'm a big stupid doofus from Texas starring in a new "docu-soap" called Nashville, where me and a bunch of other country singers try to become famous, like those girls did on "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County."

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

It all seems painfully staged and contrived.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

The show's dialogue feels scripted, its frequent hookups and breakups abrupt and phony, and its scenes from the music business out and out fraudulent.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

Even if you're a shameless lover of "Laguna Beach" and its spinoff, "The Hills," you should probably avoid this country-flavored iteration of the semi-scripted reality soap formula. It's pretty doggone dull.

The average user rating for this tv show is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kevin L. gave it a0:
Avoid at all costs. The pilot was boring and it looked more like a scripted drama. It looked unconvincing. The show looked as if it is lost and it doesn't have any known structure to it. The characters are just unconvincing and just is painful.

Eric B. gave it a9:
Not bad Not bad at all.

Stephanie W. gave it a10:
I want to see more of Sarah! Who cares about Rachel and Mika and their high school feud over Clint? Who the heck is Clint anyway, and what does he know about country music or Nashville? He needs to borrow one of his dad's jets and fly to L.A. I do believe Sarah, Chuck, Jeff, and Matt are sincere. My bets are on those 4!

Kanzia H. gave it a10:
The initial episode started out as kinda boring. But the comment about Nashville not being Hazard stirred a lot of interest. Now we're all intrigued by what will happen next.

Deborah M. gave it a10:
Love it!!

Tom S. gave it a0:
Seriously? Is this actually a television show?

Nashville SERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Nashville
SERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)