Army Wives: The Complete First Season

Army Wives: The Complete First Season
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Actor: Army Wives
Director: n/a
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 552 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Army Wives: The Complete First Season

DVD Review: Great item!
Summary: 5 Stars

I purchased this for my daughter. It arrived about a week later and she loved it!

DVD Review: Love Army Wives!
Summary: 5 Stars

I love Army Wives! I was so excited to see the previews for the show when it first premiered on lifetime and i was instantly hooked. One of my girlfriends that i went to school with was living in washington at the time and her husband was deployed so we would email back and forth every week about the show. It helped me connect with her on a different level and she would talk about how the wives really feel and how life is on the base. I had to buy this when it was released before the second season. Now the third season is coming next month and i can't wait to purchase season two!

DVD Review: Army Wives
Summary: 5 Stars

The Army Wives DVD arrived in a timely matter and the condition was excellent, thank you!

DVD Review: Army Wives #1
Summary: 5 Stars

Waiting for season 2, season 1 watched the whole season at one time, it was great.

DVD Review: No (Wo)man's Army
Summary: 2 Stars

The stories while engaging, DO NOT AT ALL reflect Army lifestyle. I was intrigued to watch all of Season One, but I've spent 2 years in the Army myself and 26 years as an Army wife, and this show is not at all realistic. For good reasons, fficer and enlisted wives do not have close relationships, and enlisted and officer's wives have their own social networks and would not have formals or or parties together. Tea parties went out in the mid sixties, and I never met nor heard of anyone like the general's wife. There are eschelons of relationships that reflect the spouses' ranks and a colonl's wife would not be having everyone to her house. Having twins on a pool table, hiding them in "the colonel's quarters" run afoul of the law, and no prenatal or postnatal care is given to the wife. Colonel and majors wives do not dress like that. I'd recommend this series to Service wives if they want to get a good laugh, but it does not represent military well, and does the public a disservice.

Description of Army Wives: The Complete First Season

UPC:786936749601
DESCRIPTION: Army Wives tells the story of four women and one man who are brought together by their common bond they all have enlisted spouses. They form an unlikely alliance as they help one another through the challenges, tragedies, and struggles of army life. END

Lifetime's spectacularly successful first original series, Army Wives, hit a home run out of the gate. By focusing on those "keeping the home fires burning" and largely ignoring politics, the series appeals to fans of great drama all over the political spectrum. The Season One boxed set shows a key reason for its strength: the first-rate cast, led by Catherine Bell (JAG) as Denise and Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue) as Claudia, but also featuring the seasoned TV actress Wendy Davis (Joan) and plucky newcomer Sally Pressman (Roxy). (There's also one prominent Army husband, Claudia's husband Roland, played by the handsome Sterling K. Brown.) The chemistry among these women, living together at an Army base while most of their husbands are off at war--or helping to orchestrate the battles afar--is as undeniable as in any great TV ensemble, reminiscent of the early days of ER. This territory has been for some reason largely unexplored by Hollywood, but what a rich territory it is: Americans may exhort "Support our troops," but the ones who do that day in and day out, on a deep emotional level, are the troops' families. In one moving mid-season scene, Claudia gives a speech, exclaiming, "We serve too!" which is no less moving for being obvious.

The series also doesn't stint on its visuals and sets. Shot on location in South Carolina, using a variety of vacant military bases and stately historic homes, Army Wives has a richness, a depth rarely seen on TV. The optional commentary, by the episode's director and its visual effects director, helps the viewer appreciate the cinematic techniques employed in the shots--lingering tracking shots, for example, and fewer cuts back and forth. But Army Wives is not without humor. When Roxy overhears a conversation in a ladies' room about one wife's possibly being beaten, she announces for the full room to hear: "He hits you once, hit him back. Hits you again, shoot him in the b--ls!" Cut to closed stall, where a couple has been trying to have a secret tryst, stifling laughter. The laughs leaven the tears, but the drama of the series overall is always first-rate --A.T. Hurley

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