Posts with tag suicide bomber
Posted Sep 15th 2008 7:25AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Army Wives
(S02E13) There was a lot of action is this penultimate episode of
Army Wives. After the ripples created by all these stones in the water, I expect that next week's season finale will be a humdinger, although I don't think the finale can equal the punch of last year's suicide bomber at the Hump Bar.
It's clear that the writers like to keep us on our toes, surprising us, and I don't mind the unexpected. But the twist in tonight's show really came out of left field. I'll be frank; it was bad. I won't talk about it further until after the jump, but suffice to say I felt very manipulated, and not in a good way.
The Trevor/Roxy drug story has been building and it's definitely coming to a realistic boil. I feel for Roxy. She's doing her best to keep it together and Trevor has been like another person since returning from Iraq, guilt ridden and injured.
Continue reading Army Wives: Safe Havens
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)