Original Air Date: 24 October 2011
Zoe: Yeah, and you told me that you would fix it.
Wade: Maybe. But you should be nicer to me. 'Cause when all those nice churchgoing people get whooshed up to Heaven in the Rapture, gonna be just me and you left to repopulate the Earth.
Review: "I'm Lavon Hayes, and I'm itch free... where it counts." No doubt, this show is constant in delivering fun moments, but it's also heartwarming and makes me miss the small town I grew up in. But please, please, I beg of you, dress Rachel Bilson in something other than shorts from time to time! Shorts don't say cosmopolitanism and there are so many things that can be done with Zoe's wardrobe to still reflect New York. And since we're speaking of wardrobe, I can't help but admire Jamie King's. If there's something I like about Lemon, it's her Southern elegance.
We're still discovering Bluebell's residents, but lately it seems like the character development has been strictly focused on Wade, who not only can sing "Moon River" while trying to save the town drunk from killing himself, but he's actually the town drunk's son and occasionally backs his truck over his passed out father. How can Zoe not fall for him? I mean, he's the whole package and doesn't have an annoying fiance trying to run her out of town.
Speaking of Lemon, not only is she irritating and close-minded, but also extremely insecure, which makes her the motherload of all two-dimensional characters TV shows have ever built. Guess what? She's not jealous of Zoe, because "she has no manners, dubious breeding and hair like a grill brush." She's just afraid her man will miss New York and leave Bluebell again and that is enough reason for her to throw a tantrum when finding out George convinced the mayor to build a road with actual functionality instead of repairing a historical bridge no one actually uses. Why move to the 21st century when one can keep living in a storybook town where nothing ever happens, right?
Elsewhere, I was quite pissed at Lavon having no spine despite saying he hates presentations and other methods of influencing his decisions. But politics in Bluebell are done like everywhere else: over a ball game or behind closed doors and a woman can build a useless bridge and all she needs is the mayor having the hots for her.
Now, I read an interview with hunk Wilson Bethel, who talks about possible romance between Zoe and Wade and now that's all I'm waiting for from this series. For this show to actually become amazing, it needs to speed up the pace a little bit, otherwise, it became a solid choice for my Monday nights.Hart of Dixie 1x04: In Havoc and in Heat Back to Season 1