Ill Doctrine: No, seriously, I’m voting out of revenge

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:39:00 +0000

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“Revenge” is a dish that serves itself in bits and pieces

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:22:00 +0000

"For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness."

So says Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), the heroine and narrator of "Revenge," a dark prime-time soap set in the Hamptons (Wednesdays 10 p.m./9 Central). Tonight's pilot starts with a flashforward to a party celebrating Emily's engagement to a young man named Daniel Grayson (Josh Bowman), son of one of the Hamptons' most prominent couples, Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe) and Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny). Emily is still somewhat new in town; hers was a meteoric (and for some Hamptons residents, troubling) rise. By the end of the flashforward, someone turns up dead; I won't reveal who, but I will note that Emily's reaction to the tragedy doesn't sync up with her cat-that-ate-the-canary expressions during the party -- a nifty bit of misdirection by the show's creator and head writer Mike Kelley ("Swingtown").

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Ill Doctrine: No, seriously, I’m voting out of revenge

“Revenge” is a dish that serves itself in bits and pieces