Army Wives

Army Wives" mini-cap: Breaking up is hard to do  - Nov 6, 2008 Although Claudia Joy tries to be strong and rational, her friends are stunned. Especially Denise. CJ is not prepared, however, for how difficult it is to ...

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By thelinster Season 2 of Army Wives ended Sunday — with less of a bang than a whimper. Roxy gets word that Betty has died of cancer, which brings about a reconciliation of sorts with her mom, Marda. Then Betty’s nephew Collin brings Betty’s ashes to Roxy because she was the closest person to Betty.

By thelinster We know from the first mention of her that Jennifer will be a sort of rival for Claudia Joy. Even though Evan has been at Ft. Marshall awhile, Jennifer is just now joining him because she has an active law practice and had to take care of that before she could move. (Remember, Claudia Joy gave up be...

By thelinster Last week, we left Joan fighting off death, Trevor fighting off addiction, Pamela fighting off harassment, Claudia Joy fighting off rape and Denise fighting off the urge to give up men permanently. OK, I made that last one up, but the writers have given us so little nuance lately that I have...

By thelinster When we last left the wives, Denise wanted a separation, Joan was recovering from a baby shower, Pamela and Roxy were freaking out, and Claudia Joy was happy, if not gay. Let’s look at each storyline in terms of its dramatic escalation score. Denise and the shrinking family

By thelinster Roxy Scene: Roxy comes home to find Trevor passed out from an overdose with the kids trying desperately to wake him up. Oops, it’s a nightmare. I’ll take Contrived Writing for 100, Alex. I still don’t buy this arc. Trevor has declined this much and Joan still hasn’t noticed he has a problem? Not a...

By thelinster I’m going to assume that more than a week has gone by in TV time, because I’d be disoriented otherwise. However, Trevor is just now getting in trouble for losing his cool in his TV interview, so we can’t be too far down the road. Why am I trying to be logical? In any case, Michael’s “punishment” fo...

By thelinster We also learned this week that Goodbye Girl Marsha Mason will guest star as Claudia Joy’s society mom, Charlotte Meade, later this summer. We already know that Charlotte and Claudia Joy are not exactly close, thanks to C.J.’s choice to drop out of law school to marry Michael. Interesting that...

By thelinster To quote TV Squad blogger, Allison Waldman: “If there’s one thing about Army Wives that bothers me, it’s that life is rarely this tidy.” So true, especially in this episode, titled “Leaving the Tribe.” Roxy, of course, freaked, but Trevor wasn’t hurt badly and, by episode’s end, he called w...

By thelinster The other voiceover was from Trevor, in the form of writing a letter to Roxy from Iraq. He writes – and we hear – every detail of his life there. The point was to show the difference between what Trevor experienced and how he ultimately glossed over it all in what he told his family, but I felt like...

By thelinster We don’t get to jump ahead in time in order to avoid the explosion’s fallout. Season 2 opens four days after the finale as Pamela Moran (Brigid Brannagh), who found her voice as a radio host last season, goes on air to talk about what happened.