A not-so-routine traffic stop leads the conversation as Johnny and Andrew stay active in this trying time. Rayna hangs out with a new producer, Juliette has a PR date, Avery and Scarlett are definitely forever, and the town of Nashville will never have any dramatic things happening within it, so long as we keep vigil on the show.

Johnny takes command of the episode and makes Andrew sit through a modern horror that he absolutely adores. Andrew prepares for the Ethan Hawke of it all, and finds ways to make horror less scary by turning Sinister into a Muppet movie. Johnny tries to remember his top 10 films of 2012, but there seems to be some cursed beast within the archives, unleashing its own sinister brand of evil. The bad guy of this film is named Mr. Boogie, by the way.

It’s the cross pollination of musical month and Shocktober, as horror director Darren Lynn Bousman delves deep into the dingy world of operatic storytelling, and gets a pre-I’ll Kill Harvey Weinstein Paul Sorvino to perform, whilst Paris Hilton loses face and Anthony Head remains vastly underpaid for his services to cinema. Also, Andrew laments horror cinema and Johnny works through furloughed worker schemes, because that’s where we are mentally now!

It’s time to face up to addictions, deceptions and audits, as Nashville looks to bring characters together and tear relationships apart.

Johnny goes deep in detail whilst Andrew reminisces on the end of Ben Affleck’s The Town and accepts Charles Esten’s smouldering personality.

The last week of Music Documentary Musical Month sees Andrew finally witness a Gene Kelly film he’s been meaning to watch for years, and Johnny witness the prowess of a dance god.

Also, some deep talk about trailer production for, I’d guess, nobody’s interest.

In the aftermath of Juliette’s criminal activity, Andrew and Johnny recover by discussing the geography of the city of Nashville, problematic characters from the year 2012 and the ensuing political landscape that manifests in the mayoral race on a TV show from the start of the decade. This will be the last episode on the Are You Movie Mad? Podcast feed, we’re going solo from October.

Johnny loves The Green Mile but has been so obsessed with a scene in the film where Michael Clarke Duncan watches Top Hat in the cinema and cries. Now it’s time for Johnny to finally see the whole film, in context, and Andrew is dragged along despite his hatred of Fred and Ginger films. Will Top Hat be top of the hats, or some second thing that means bad?

Things get a little crazy backstage this week, as Andrew and Johnny contemplate the amount of ‘Daddy’ talk in this week’s episode, forget names of characters, and continually engage in the ‘will they/won’t they’ of Rayna and Juliette’s upcoming tour prospects.

What if Anna Kendrick was one of two leads in a romance drama musical? That runs 90 minutes? And came out in 2014?

Well, by rights it’d be a thing you’d at least have heard about, right? Thus, this is a film that 100% doesn’t exist. Yes it is another Johnny pick!

Episode 2 of the Nashville TV Series re-watch show settles us in the world of the show, the dramatic nature of a music-themed statue, and of course more discussion about the use of the term ‘Daddy’. Stay for the coaster discussions and what it means to ‘songwrite’ with another person.