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Colt's invisible sister returned? Was Maddie talking to her on the phone? So Layla's family doesn't reconcile with her when she tries to commit suicide but when her abusive svengali dies they do?

Every time I started to warm up to and get interested in one she was written out. Hahaha...Oliver Hudson is a very good looking man and he pulled off that slimy rich guy look too. But he didn't look anything like either Jeff or himself in that awful picture. It was contrived. Nobody would hold a tribute to their manager. A couple of people in the music business have lost somebody in the Paris attacks. Neither of them is holding such a tribute.

So do they play it that Layla at some point in the very little time passing here (when?) wrote that song or is she playing a cover song?

I don't even know what happened that it apparently got so bad that I'm done with the show because they killed Jeff and I hate what they are doing to Layla. That is how bad it got with me and the show. Both of them were just supposed to be random generic filler characters. They weren't even in the first season.

But they already HAD that storyline with Layla.

Not that Nashville hasn't become a full blown soap opera but the "Layla has to find out whether her unborn child is the last remnant from the love of her life or the child of her gay ex who tried to comfort her very physically"" surely get us there! (But they will hardly do the same storyline twice). I'm just annoyed at the writers and their "unexpected sources." Of course it will be Will.

I think she was supposed to be 21-22 while Jeff was supposed to be in his mid-30s. So about 13-15 years age difference.

It's my speculation. But this speaks of her getting support from "unexpected sources." Before I learned from spoilers that Jeff was gonna die, I figured they would have Marcus hit on Layla. So maybe now he will be comforting her. But knowing the Nashville team the "unexpected" source will be the obvious one we all expect to comfort her: Will. Peebles already spoke of them re-bonding and having more scenes together. It the least unexpected source though. He and Jeff were the only people Layla ever interacted with. That Rayna will be supportive and caring is a given. The only other truly unexpected source I can think of is Scarlett. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nashville-death-jeff-fordham-interview-835535?utm_source=twitter

Still enjoying it, but will really miss Jeff. Who knew that THIS will be the last straw for me. I actually was mainly watching for the Jeff/Layla scenes in the past episode. Hoping for so much Rayna grappling with Jeff to come. You don't kill off everyone's favorite antagonist when he was the only one who really worked, who had great scenes with Rayna and Juliette and whom they had fleshed out and moved beyond the smarmy record exec. Also, I really liked Layla and grieving for Jeff is not going to be a good thing for character development. This was just stupid. Hudson wants off? Oh come on, he won't be too good now to play a couple of scenes every couple of episodes. Let Layla talk to him on the phone. Let them fight, break up, him going to L.A. anything but killing one of the characters who really made the show work off to be substituted by another bunch of random filling characters that nobody wants.

I actually really liked fleshing Jeff out into a character who has something - someone - to lose and to deal with how Layla is changing him for the worse (abuse) and the better (falling in love)

Couldn't agree with that more. Jeff developed into one of the leads of the show as the antagonist and through Layla becoming an actual layered character that had you second guessing. They killed off the lead antagonist that people actually want to watch (I don't care to watch Layla fighting with Luke or Marcus) and just fill it up with more randos nobody cares for. This was just dumb in all aspects. Now what? Layla is going to grieve and be sad. She is not going to become stronger by becoming more independent from Jeff and leaving him or by staying with him and him and learning from it turning their relationship into something she gains knowledge from. How is her character developing now that for all intends and purposes the "love of her life" is gone? Now she is going to have to sing sad songs about Jeff for the rest of the show interspersed with Rayna and Will comforting her.

I have to rant about the way this is all so unrealistict too. First, I didn't think the Layla/Jeff scenes were of the redeeming Jeff/cute couple this time. Why do they portray her as an overly enthusiastic puppy and him as....had me second guessing there. Really happy to have her jump into your arms? (Also, the Layla we first met would have never done that). I know, Layla (post character transplant) is emotional, but a little too much. Also, going from attacking him - why didn't they sit down and talk about all this like rational adults in a committed relationship - to being aw, shucks, everything is jolly good, go secure that job so we can move in together in a second... They could have sold the same with a heartfelt conversation about his past mistakes, his possessiveness and how her not being dependent on him and him not being in control (remember that contract and the abuse, writers?) is a good thing for their relationship and they can take it to the next step, he loves her bla. They really, really missed an opportunity there to backtrack on their shitty writing. The whole moving in was ridiculous because they ALREADY lived together. The writers should know this as they wrote it. Still don't know why she would live in the place where she tried to kill herself because of Jeff either. Anyway, they already lived together. There was also no need for any movers. Layla doesn't own any of the furniture in the house. All she would need to do is packing up a couple of boxes and suitcases with her stuff. Even if, are they going to put her furnitue in one of the 20 dozens guest rooms in his ginomous mansion? Were they going to have a Javery style "I'm keeping that chair" scene? I love to see Luke, Gabriella and Layla readily accept that Jeff killed himself in the next episode. It seemed the obvious step after needing a minute to then celebrate your new job and celebrate again with your girlfriend in bed.

This NYT tv critics tweet sums up my feelings "Honest to God, the show just killed its sexy villain & left 25 randos, 3 goatees, a terrible new bar, a baby, no good songs & Gunnar alive."

Great, now they can pair Layla with Marcus and be slighted by groupies. (that was sarcasm) Hudson wanted out, but that was stupid of them.

I had that idea too but Layla is grieving in the next episode. Oliver Hudson really wanted to leave a sinking ship. ETA: Just saw the promo for the next episode. Nope, Jeff is dead. They even have it in writing as a news item. They have LUKE comforting Layla. Really, writers??