Hart of Dixie Heats Up Before Its First Season Finale
Hart of Dixie took a long hiatus during the cold winter months recently, but it is back with all-new episodes now, just in time to heat things up for spring. And boy do things get hot in Bluebell! Between the preparations for the wedding, a couple more big town events, music, a mysterious stranger, and a love triangle turned on its side, Snakkle has the scoop on which moments are absolutely can’t-miss. By Danielle TurchianoThe buildup to George and Lemon’s wedding leads to surprising revelations. In “Bachelorettes & Bullets,” George (Scott Porter) and Lemon (Jaime King) each have their pre-wedding extravaganzas with their friends. But things go awry, and the celebrations merge momentarily, when Lavon (Cress Williams) ends up tagging along on George’s hunting trip and Lemon fears the truth about her affair may come out.
“Edible underwear, a bear, and an affair,” series creator Leila Gerstein only half-joked when asked to tease the episode for fans.
George’s bachelor party becomes an extremely awkward hunting trip when all of their ammo gets burned in a fire and the party bus full of Lemon’s bridesmaids, younger sister, and a stripper/bus driver turns up at their cabin.
Each love triangle will feel ripple effects of fallout from Lavon and Lemon’s affair. “If Lavon had not kissed [Lemon] at the end of episode 17, George would have possibly never found out,” Gerstein said of that relationship. “But obviously the triangle of George, Wade, and Zoe, the weight changes with the fact that George now knows the truth about Lemon. It’s going to change things in every single triangle.”
Lemon is a fighter, though, and she will push forward and try to make things right with George, which leaves Lavon to still stew in his feelings for her while trying to do “damage control” in his own way.
“What I love about Lavon,” Williams shared, “is that he takes responsibility for it and just tries to make it right.”
The cast gets musical. Though you’ve seen Wade strum a guitar and you may even have caught Rachel Bilson’s Dr. Zoe Hart rap if you’re a Funny or Die fan, that’s really only the tip of the iceberg. A number of cast members will be breaking out in song, from Brick (Tim Matheson) to the Belles to Wanda (Mallory Moye) and of course Scott Porter. In “Destiny & Denial,” American Idol’s Scotty McCreery also makes an appearance and sings “The Trouble with Girls.”
“It’s not original music,” Gerstein warned. “It’s Gilbert & Sullivan. It’s all been cut together [though]; it’s all going online! There’s a lot of music in episode 19 for your listening pleasure.”
Wade and Zoe’s relationship will experience another “flow” by finale time. In the upcoming “The Race & the Relationship,” Wade and Zoe get thrust together as a two-man team for the Bluebell Battle, and while this may not be a game-changing moment for their relationship, it may put them on the right path to eventually getting to that moment before the end of the first season.
“Part of what, I think, we’ve come to expect from Wade and Zoe’s relationship is they treat each other like children. And children don’t know about trying to make their relationships right. They go about ignoring; they go about being different,” Bethel pointed out. “That’s a really great episode for Wade and Zoe fans on multiple levels, I think, especially just by virtue of them spending the whole episode together. There’s a lot of bantery stuff, and then where it ends up at the end of the episode kind of sets up the last few.”
And speaking of the finale: now with Wade shirtless for 40 percent of the show! While Gerstein teased that “some things are tied up” while others are “blown wide open” in her first-season finale episode, she is really proud of how “it will satisfy a lot of viewers and also leave it open for season 2.” The episode is centered on a big event—one that causes Wade to get wet and strip down yet again.
“Wade really does spend a lot of the episode with his shirt off. Tell everyone! Maybe, I would say, forty percent of the episode,” Gerstein laughed. “There’s a storm; it’s raining.”
“Because that’s what we all do when it rains,” Bethel shook his head. “It’s cold, so I’ll take my shirt off!”
Hart of Dixie airs on The CW on Monday nights at 9 p.m.