Recently, I read about a new tv series coming out called "Army Wives". Supposedly it is about several wives/families and their often-deployed spouses. A photo of the cast revealed three size 3 "wives" in evening gowns and stilleto heels and their "husbands" standing and sitting around them in full dress uniform- everyone looking very serious and "come hither". Its like having "Knots Landing" at Fort Bragg.
Anyway, it started me thinking what a "Navy Wives" tv series might look like. But I'm afraid I could only invision myself in it and it wasnt too glamorous! My evening gown has yet to come out of the closet (actually, its still on the rack at some store). I DID get an invite to the upcoming SeaBee Ball (missed the big Navy Ball). But since Mark is deployed I thought it would be silly to get all fixed up just to sit around with a bunch of lonely wives all night. Maybe thats a bad attitude. I doubt if they intend to sit around feeling lonely...
Maybe a mini series... it could feature the day to day life of the military wife with her husband deployed...but we would need a lot of makeup and maybe a personal trainer or two. Unless we can get an actress to play me. And I want some child-actors to play my kids. Some that wear fashionable clothes (for tv), no snotty noses (we have allergies), and dont wake their mom up at all hours of the night (because whoever is playing me needs to NOT have these bags under her eyes.). Yes, they definitely need an actress to play my part. I've seen the faces of other wives whose husbands are deployed and they just look too sad. If I look like that then no one will watch this show.
No, it shouldn't be glamorous because that would be fake. It needs to be a reality show. But they probaby should not film the wife trying to trim her own bushes with the electric trimmer (I almost cut my arm off doing that!) and I dont know about filming her carrying out the trash and recycle bins every week...that might be a bit ho-hum for the tv audience. But then so would the endless trips to the commissary. Maybe inside-the-home ...we could have a great scene doing homeschool! They can just edit out the parts where Mom starts pulling her hair out and the kids are crying. It could be really touching if they show the kids getting a Skype call from their Dad (until they start fighting over who sits in front of the camera -oh wait, I forgot! They're actors. So maybe they wont do that...). We could do a span of the inside of the house, just to give people a "feel" for a real military family home... but not until I get it cleaned up in here for goodness sake!
I don't think this tv idea is going to fly. Even I wouldn't watch it!
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