Army Wives – The Complete Third Season (2009/ABC-Disney DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: B Episodes: B+
Welcome
to the hit series 'Army Wives’; 4 army
house wives, 1 army husband, their families, their stories and how they
intertwined. Brought together by the
army, regardless of the differences between their spouse's rank, social class
or position they became fast friends, but in Season 3, their friendship is
really put to the test. Claudia Joy must
deal with her teenage daughter and save her family from falling apart. Denise must deal with her infidelity when it
becomes the public post. Roxy struggles
financially and emotionally to save her family and the bar she worked for. Pamela questions her marriage when her husband
when he lied about being in an accident when he was really captured and
tortured. Roland begins to prep to be a
single parent when Joan is set to deploy. It's a season of challenges and changes, lives
will be forever altered.
This is a great series, even thought this is a fictional series, the stories
are believable. The stress of a spouse
never being home, giving up past lives married to a military man/woman, the
struggle between following the rules or one's dreams, not to mention the
political and social dramas of housewives. Sometimes being on the homefront is scarier
than being on the battlefield, but still... it has it's heart warming and
heartfelt moments. I enjoyed not only
the drama, but how much it can echo real life, the setting was beautiful and
the script was well written.
This is a great drama in my opinion, better than all those hospital or police
drama, there is a bit of drama for everything, action, tragedy, change, life in
the army... what can you say, it's got it all. While fictional, the stories seems incredibly
almost realistic, social politics, triumph and failures, infidelity, death,
IRS, debt, tragedy; basically real life problems we have to face in reality. It has themes such as love, desire, honor,
responsibility, jealousy, anger, forgiveness and understanding... but of course
a person went through ALL the drama that happens on the show, I think a real
person would either go crazy or just be
crazy to be still in the army. Extras
include behind the scenes with cast, crew and location of the filming of Army
Wives in Charleston, South Carolina, gag reel, deleted scenes,
Webisodes, and more. After watching them
just makes me feel like going there sometime.
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Episode 1: Best Laid Plans
Emmalin's attempt to elope has everyone on high alert, after a fight with her
father her family seems on the verge of falling apart. Denise's secret is out, and things don't look
good.
Episode 2: About Face
Roxy must deal with some unwanted back taxes she never knew about or she will
lose the bar. Denise must face the true
about her actions... in more ways than one.
Episode 3: Moving Out
Roxy had one last idea to save the bar and finds a new friend. Claudia Joy
continues to search for a home, while Pamela needs a new home for completely
different reason. LeBlanc doesn't do so
well in evaluations and Roland begins to think army life isn't what he should
be doing.
Episode 4: Incoming
Michael returns home, much to Claudia's joy, but he's not the only one, Frank
is too, to Denise fears. There are some things
more scary than incoming fire. Roland begins to treat post-traumatic patients
off base.
Episode 5: Disengagement
Claude Joy, Roxy and Pamela have been avoiding Denise... but time is running
out. Denise and Frank deals with lawyers
and legalities of divorce.
Episode 6: Family Readiness
Pamela takes the kids out for sports, LeBlanc gets a new addition to the family
from the front line, Lucky. Roland and
Joan get their baby christened, a reminder of what family is all
about...
Episode 7: Onward, Christian Soldiers
Frank and Denise decides to start over and forgive their mistakes. The Holdens have a chance to help a girl from
a war torn country, Haneen, but maybe helping others maybe the only way to help
themselves to their own family problems.
Episode 8: Post and Prejudice
The Holdens help Haneen with her recovery. Denise and Frank attempts to get over the
awkwardness of being together again. Joan
plays a series of war games with a rival cheater. Pamela, Roxy, Roland gets a shock from a
'sale' at Pam's house.
Episode 9: Coming Home
Haneen begins to looks toward home, but what if going home might mean she'll be
killed? Roxy deals with Finn's schooling
problem. Frank invites Denise to come
live with him again.
Episode 10: M.I.A
Roxy meets her old idol, looking for the son she gave up years ago and decides
to help her out. Pamela searches
frantically for her lost purse.
Episode 11: Operation: Tango
Claudia Joy has to deal with a Senator's widow, a rather 'energetic'
personality. It'll take more than army
to stop this woman.
Episode 12: First Response
Claudia Joy gets into an accident and is hospitalized. Claudia Joy discovers she has type two
diabetes; she struggles to come to grip with it.
Episode 13: Duty to Inform
To live with it, Pamela becomes paranoid about her husbands where about when he
doesn't come home and no one in Delta will talk. Claude Joy is a little too proud and ashamed
to tell her friends her condition. Trevor
begins his work as a recruiter.
Episode 14: Need to Know Basis
Pamela begins to filter out the lies of Chase’s missions and the excuses he
gives when the facts don't match. Trevor
tries to convince his first recruit to join is the best option regardless of
family condition.
Episode 15: As time Goes By...
Roxy and Pamela meet a couple of old ladies and listens to the stories of army
wives from the last world war, the challenges, prejudices of their times, the
changes they made, and the things they fought for in the war.
Episode 16: Shrapnel and Alibis
Jeremy comes home and deals the lost of his friend and falls into alcohol and
depression. Pamela tries to get Chase to
join the family activities during his break, but after a string of cancellations,
she begins to doubts his sincerity.
Episode 17: Fire in the Hole
Pamela's marriage takes turn for the worse, so does Jeremy mental condition. As Michael preps for his promotion, he learns
the base is targeted for termination. Meanwhile the girls have a 'friendly'
game of golf.
Episode 18: Fields of Fire
One bad new after another, Jeremy's incident at the bar, review of the fort,
Pamela had the final straw with Chase, a political hyena re-enters their
lives... things reach a breaking point for more than one.
The
picture and sound are the same as the previous seasons, which you can read more
about at these links:
One
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7329/Army+Wives+%E2%80%93+The+Com
Two
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/8646/Army+Wives+%E2%80%93+The+Com
- Ricky Chiang
