Good news for those of us who, perhaps surprisingly, became fans of Lifetime's Army Wives last summer.

Cynopsis, a TV trade site, reported last week that Army Wives is about to start production of its second season. That means we'll get to see the second season by early summer. Although I doubt you need a reminder of what, or, rather, who makes this show DVR-worthy, let's review.

Kim Delaney

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When will I ever learn? I've gotten suckered in by subtext yet again. Those deeply meaningful looks held those few extra seconds, the unusual number of little touches, the ardently sincere declarations of undying friendship ... sigh.

This time around I've got Army Wives toying with my affections, and you can bet I haven't missed an episode. And now comes the news that the show has been renewed for a second season. All the better to parse every excruciating (excruciatingly ordinary?) moment of warmth between Claudia Joy (Kim Delaney) and Denise (Catherine Bell).

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It's time for another video blog roundup of what my girlfriend Lori and I watched this week! Yes, it's just as riveting as it sounds.

We covered this week's episodes of Army Wives and Hell's Kitchen, the premiere episodes of Burn Notice and The Best Years, and what we thought TV Guide left off their list of The Top 30 Cult TV Shows.

As usual, we ended up wandering way off topic, to things like Birds of Prey, Felicity, Lena Headey, volleyball player Gabrielle Reece, and why you should give Jessica Alba another look. Plus Lori managed to sneak in more Xena references, and I got to make some Arrested Development jokes, which always makes me happy.

But all of these tangents somehow made this episode even longer than last week's video blog, when we were actually trying to make it shorter. Sorry about that — next time, we're going to use an egg timer!

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Lifetime's new series Army Wives, which airs Sundays at 10pm, is breaking all kinds of records for the cable network, with more than 3 million viewers tuning in for the the third episode, including me.

Why? Well, why not? The show's all about women. Yes, their lives revolve somewhat around their relationships with men, but the men are usually not there. And unlike The Unit's much more sexist take on the life of an army wife, the gender roles are a little more equal here (although it still some problematic storylines, like Pamela giving up her job as a policewoman just because her husband wanted her to).

Army Wives also has a great cast, including veteran actress Kim Delaney as Claudia Joy, the de-facto leader of the group, and JAG's Catherine Bell as a mother whose teenage son has an anger management problem that he takes out on his mother. Sally Pressman is great as newbie Roxy, who doesn't know any of the rules of Army Life but knows how to defend herself in a fight. Brigid Brannagh and Sterling K. Brown round out the group as Pamela the former cop and Roland the psychiatrist, whose wife Joan (Wendy Davis) is a Lt. Col. with 400 men in her command, and some serious post-traumatic stress issues after returning from Iraq.

Here are some of the character snapshots from the official websites:

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