Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Army Wives

I love the show Army Wives, and the season premiere was this week.  I had taped it and couldn't wait to watch it tonight.  Last season ended in a cliffhanger, with a disgruntled suicide bomber about to blow up the local bar.  It was the usual melodrama, until it was revealed at the end that one of the women's teenage daughters was killed in the bombing.  

The mother of the dead girl was also hurt in the bombing. There was a scene where the mother wakes up, looks in her husband's eyes, and you just know she knows her daughter is dead.  Josh came into the room and I was sobbing hysterically.  I used to watch these shows on television, and when something awful happened to someone I would think, "How sad," but not really think anything of it.  Now, anything related to a child dying (no matter how old, as tonight's episode proves) and I am an emotional wreck.  The mother was in a hospital bed, and the father leaned over her, and they just cried.  

It was surreal to see a scene from my own life played out on t.v.


1 comment:

Amy said...

Amazing how differnently I react to movies and tv shows now. As you said, I used to think "that is sad", maybe I would even tear up. But now I FEEL the pain, the gut wrenching emotion of loss portrayed in movies. Movies are very different for us now - best to have a box of tissues at hand.