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CS Weekly Archive > DVD > 6/20/08
Uncle Sam Wants You...
And Your Wife!
by jason davis
Army Wives: The Complete First Season
Katherine Fugate, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Dee Johnson, Amanda Lasher, Jeff Melvoin, Michael Oates Palmer, Julie Rottenberg, Rama Stagner, Bruce Zimmerman and Elisa Zuritsky
Created by Katherine Fugate
Based on the book Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage by Tanya Biank
 
 
Inspired by Tanya’s Biank’s book Under the Sabers, Army Wives examines a life in the service from the perspective of five Army spouses. Katherine Fugate’s pilot elegantly introduces the viewer to the different strata of army life through the eyes of Claudia Joy Holden (Kim Delaney), a colonel’s wife who must navigate the backstabbing politics on post down to Roxy LeBlanc (Sally Pressman), the new wife of an enlisted man struggling to adapt to her new existence in the military. Fugate places her five principal characters on a collision course that finds them forging a bond by pilot’s end and relying on one another during the trials and tribulations of the ensuing episodes. The variety of characters allows for several varying perspectives on military life and, much like Desperate Housewives, each of the cast members takes center stage in her (or in the case of Sterling K. Brown’s army husband Roland Burton, his) own narrative, which is carefully integrated into the ongoing development of the characters’ evolving friendship. Fugate and her collaborators provide commentaries on several episodes and offer insights into the show’s evolution from Biank’s book. Deleted scenes and a handful of featurettes explore a show that highlights the home front of a world at war.
 Army Wives: The Complete First Season
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Not rated; 552 min.
$39.99
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Jason Davis has been the DVD Manager for CS Weekly, a contributing editor for Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and has written for Cinescape.com, MSN.com, and created the TV series Studio 13, which ran on Lorne Michaels' Burly TV network. He lives in the small space left over by his ever-expanding library of books, movies, and music.
Army Wives: The Complete First Season courtesy Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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