‘Army Wives’ 2.17 Review: All in the Family
Original Air Date: October 19, 2008
This episode of Army Wives begins with excellent news: Trevor’s doctor informs him and Roxy that his shoulder injury will not prevent him from returning to combat.
On the downside, Roxy’s mom Marda (Gigi Rice) shows up at Bettys Bar and Grill out of the blue, with a fiance at her side and the claim she’s been clean and sober for six months. Too bad the new man, who seems like a decent middle-aged guy, steals $380 from the cash register at the restaurant.
Pamela, helping out to keep busy since Chase is deployed, discovers the theft, and logically Roxy assumes her mother is the culprit. Thankfully, Marda comes clean as soon as her now-ex-fiance confesses, but Roxy still seems reluctant to believe that her mother can improve her life and their relationship.
Worse, when the ex leaves their hotel room, the camera lingers on a bottle of Jack Daniels. Will Marda stay on track or will one drink to sooth the pain lead to another all-out fit of drunkenness? Stay tuned…
More drama occurs at the Holden household, where sixteen-year-old Emmalin’s relationship with cute nineteen-year-old soldier Logan (Paul Wesley) is heating up quickly. (Side note: It’s a good thing they switched Emmalin actresses; the first one, Caroline Pires, looked too young to pull off a storyline like this.) They’re sneaking out the meet each other until both get busted by his fellow soldiers, and initially, Claudia Joy and Michael have different attitudes about how to handle the predicament.
Michael finally gets his wife to realize that, as with Amanda and Jeremy last season, forbidding the couple to see each other will only make them hornier for each other. Yet, just when Claudia Joy gives Emmalin the good news — at least for the teen — that her parents aren’t going to stop her from seeing Logan because they trust her judgment, she learns the infuriating news that Jennifer Connor (Mayte Garcia) has been playing big sister to Emmalin behind her back, giving the teenager all sorts of encouragement to pursue her relationship with Logan.
Claudia Joy’s statement when she returns the Coldplay tickets Jennifer gave Emmalin says it all: “I know you don’t have children, but you should really watch those wildlife documentaries about what happens when someone comes between a mother and her child. It doesn’t end well.” Then she and Michael go babysit their godchild Sarah Elizabeth so the overstressed Burtons can have a very much-needed dinner out.
And I save the best for last, namely Denise’s budding relationship with total sweetheart Mac, the patient who lost both legs to a bomb incident earlier this season and later gave Denise his motorcycle. He’s now moving around well on artificial legs, and he arrives on post at Denise’s request to speak to members of the Warriors in Transition program at Mercer.
Everything is platonic right now between them, but their conversations hint at what’s to come, as indicated in the promo at the end of the episode, which shows their relationship growing intimate. Couldn’t happen to two characters I like more.
And, on a side note, Denise’s husband Frank and son Jeremy meet up over in Iraq, right around the time that Frank’s gorgeous new colleague, divorced for five years, arrives. Frank deserves to move on too since, as Mac so truthfully tells the warriors, at some point, everyone has to let go of what could have been and, by implication, move on to what comes next.
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