HART OF DIXIE: “Bluebell” {Recap}

This is the show’s series finale, so let’s go at this with the gusto and zeal of Bluebell.

Lemon and Lavon are having an engagement party just as Zoe and Wade want to also announce their engagement but Zoe won’t because she doesn’t want to rein on Lemon’s parade. Even to the point where Zoe is on of Lemon’s bridesmaid.

While George is off in Nashville, he’s found a friend Olivia (guest star Autumn Reeser) to take over for him. Too bad she’s a New Yorker and not used to anything in Alabama, and even though Zoe understands her situation, Zoe can’t explain that in a way Olivia understands. Olivia has a contract for a new associate at the office, which Zoe thinks is a replacement for her, rather than an addition because of her baby and Ethel.

George’s life with Meatball and the Truitts isn’t going well at all either. They don’t even want to do a cover together at George’s insistent.

Should we all wonder why Lemon’s so at ease with the party planning? She’s so zen about it.

The new associate comes with the news that the staff at Fancy’s has all com down with food poisoning, but no one in town wants to help make up for their absence. Wade does a horrible job of distracting Zoe from her party, and ends up with a boot on his car to keep her from the party.

Great news for Rose: she’s going to Columbia in the fall. Zoe gives Rose all her old New York shoes that can go home where they belong.

For the first time in ages, Zoe goes to see Harley’s grave and tells him everything that’s happened – her baby and falling in love with Wade and anything else he’s missed.

Lemon’s zen about this party has to do with who she’s marrying and Wade’s able to get his thunder for he and Zoe at the same time. Hopefully that extends to what might happen to Zoe, who’s looking more and more pained with contractions as the night goes on. Lavon tells Lemon the truth about the proposal, and Lemon takes it as a sign that she isn’t actually engaged. Being the good woman that she is, she tells Wade and Zoe to say it’s there party when Zoe’s water breaks.

Crickett and Jaycene are doing their best to help AB with her issues with George and the long-distance. But AB won’t move for another man again. Too bad he sees that he could make a life for himself there.

Lemon goes off with the Belles to get drunk while she stews about what Lavon said just as Brick, George and Lavon plan something special to give Lemon the engagement she deserves. Too bad George can’t get this one task done and the proposal is moving to the hospital for Zoe’s birth. When everyone’s there Zoe announces that she wants to get married now. Hopefully that happens before she pops the baby out.

AB and George, still in their argument, have been sent off to find rings but they still are trying to address their issues. George admits that he loves AB and that he wants to figure it out. AB tells him she loves him too and they get busy in the car when they should have been finding the rings. In much the same way, Lemon and Lavon settle their little fight and Lavon proposes on the way back to the hospital.

Zoe does get the weeding before giving birth, going down the aisle of the hospital to the delivery room as she and Wade share their vows.

Meatball and the Truitts show up and play their cover as their baby gift to Zoe and Wade before the show goes out with a great musical number highlighting all of Bluebell and what it has come to mean over four seasons – a community acting together. Lavon and Lemon’s wedding is the second part of the song, and then the song goes through all the different parts of the town and what they mean to each other.

The only burning question from the end of the series – what’s Baby Hart-Kinsella’s first name?