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Posted Aug 18th 2008 11:42AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Army Wives
"No matter how horrible the loss, I couldn't push away the people who still needed me." -- Claudia Joy's advice to DeniseBeneath the surface, there were emotional land mines all around the friends at Fort Marshall in this episode. There were also some interesting revelations. It started with the arrival, out of the blue, of Charlotte, Claudia Joy's mom. Played by Marsha Mason, famous for
The Goodbye Girl, Charlotte has always been hard on her daughter.
Fortunately, the way it was written and the way she played it, she wasn't there just to scrutinize her daughter's housekeeping. It was surprising to hear that she hadn't even called Claudia Joy since Amanda's death. Could there be a more clear indication that there's a gap between mother and daughter?
There was a lot of subtext, things unsaid between them, and that made their scenes all the better. Her visit was more about what's wrong in her life and therefore how it'll impact on Claudia Joy and Michael's. Watch for Mother to move in for a while.
Continue reading Army Wives: Mothers and Wives
Posted Jul 10th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free, Army Wives
Kim Delaney is not Quinn Cummings, but the actresses share one thing in common: Marsha Mason as a mom, on screen that is.
Army Wives has cast Marsha Mason, Oscar-nominated actress for
The Goodbye Girl, as Claudia Joy Holden's mom. She will be appearing on at least two episodes this season, visiting Fort Marshall and her daughter, the general's wife.
Marsha, who is actually has been Oscar-nominated as Best Actress four times in all (
Cinderella Liberty, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh), will guest on
Army Wives as Charlotte Meade, Claudia's socialite mother. Her relationship with her daughter is strained and her visit comes without warning.
Continue reading Marsha Mason to guest on Army Wives
Posted Jul 6th 2008 1:11PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Judging by the
Nielsen ratings Lifetime is raking in for Army Wives in its second season, this show has found its audience. It actually started last spring when
Army Wives was a national surprise -- to everyone in the business outside of Lifetime, which picked up the show when ABC passed.
It's still amazing to think that ABC had a chance to put this show in their schedule and let it get away. Their loss is Lifetime's gain -- and they're feasting on it.
If you missed the first season of
Army Wives, and didn't get into the show until the fifth episode -- like me -- then you'll be glad to know that
Army Wives: The Complete First Season is now available on DVD. It's a great set, too, with some very nice bonus features and quality commentaries.
Continue reading Army Wives: Season One - DVD review
Posted Jun 16th 2008 11:42AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E02) Army Wives is reminding me of some of my favorite TV dramas of all time, shows like
thirtysomething and
Party of Five. Especially this episode where there are more feelings and reactions to the bombing at the Hump Bar. How does life go back to normal after a tragedy? How do you cope?
Time has passed and life may appear to be getting back to normal at Fort Marshall, but things are still quite unsettled among the close knit coterie on
Army Wives. Chief among them are the Holdens. Claudia Joy is simply not returning to normal and it become clear as the episode progressed that she's an emotional powder keg.
Continue reading Army Wives: Strangers in a Strange Land
Posted Jun 8th 2008 11:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E01) The season finale for
Army Wives last summer was a cliffhanger. It was an explosive, shocking and dramatic conclusion to a season filled with the characters' ups and downs, the good times and the bad, the yin and the yang of the lives of military families on Fort Marshall in Charleston, South Carolina.
This season two opener is no less stunning. It was a powerful episode, as the tribe, as the Army spouses like to call themselves, deal with the aftermath of a suicide bomber walking into the Hump Bar determined to fulfill his mission and take all of them with him. The watering hole was filled with patrons, and the question fans wondered since then has been, who survived the blast?
Continue reading Army Wives: Would You Know My Name (season premiere)
Posted Feb 14th 2008 1:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Desperate Housewives, Cable/Satellite, Ratings, WGA Strike
Cynopsis reports that now that the writers' strike is over -- hallelujah! -- Lifetime Television will soon begin production on the second season of
Army Wives with episodes scheduled to air in early summer. This is great news for fans of the Lifetime original drama series that was a ratings juggernaut when it premiered last summer. In fact, Army Wives was the most successful series in Lifetime's 23-year history! During its 13-episode run,
Army Wives was the highest rated drama on cable among women, establishing new Lifetime marks for an original scripted series. The soapy-drama was scheduled to return in April, but then the writers struck and the show has been in hibernation -- I mean, hiatus -- ever since.
Continue reading Attention! Army Wives back in training
Posted Sep 7th 2006 10:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Talent
Kim Delaney is joining a pilot for the Lifetime television network. It's called
Army Wives and it's about a sassy woman (Sally Pressman) who marries a soldier and moves her kids to the military base where she meets some interesting military wives. Delaney's character is the strong wife of the colonel, whom everyone looks up to. Filming begins later this month in South Carolina.
Delaney has had a weird career, to say the least. She was very popular when she was on
NYPD Blue but then sort-of disappeared. She was a co-star on
CSI: Miami but abruptly left the show and has never really explained why. She showed up on season two of
The O.C. looking different and... uh, puffy. Not sure what her story is.
Giveaway Monday: That '70s Show The Complete Series Stash box set
Giveaway Monday: Back to You season one DVD
Six shows that I am watching pretty regularly this season
