"If there's no heroes in Nashville, there aren't any villains either."

I think Triplett is pretty much a villain. Tom is pretty much a villain. Haven is pretty much a villain since he adds nothing. Barbara Jean's husband could have been a villian or could have been a fatally flawed hero, if everything he was doing was out of love but it could go either way. For me, I saw a lot of potential in some of the relationships but I didn't think any were really fleshed out.

Having real life relationships works if you have real life characters. But most of the characters in this film seemed like caricatures so it didn't fit that their relationships would then be "real".

"Fair enough. But I must say I don't share that opinion. I find it a very involving movie. Especially the stories of Barbara Jean and Sueleen Gay."

My issue is that neither of them had an arc. They were downhill the whole time. Same with L.A. Joan and her uncle. Most of the characters just seemed pathetic.