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\u201cBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong><\/em>Confucius<\/strong><\/p>\nOh, the sweet smell of revenge\u2026.<\/p>\n
For the vengeful person, that probably feels good to say.\u00a0 I\u2019m actually such a goody-goody I\u2019ve never had a chance to smell that sweet aroma.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019ve wanted to smell it, especially certain times of life (middle school!) but that thing called a conscience has stopped me cold every time. Acts of revenge look especially bad when your main job description is \u201cMom\u201d and a large part of being a good one is setting a respectable example.\u00a0 What would it look like if I avenged my enemy while simultaneously reprimanding my children for hitting back?\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s why this new show Revenge on ABC at 10PM on Wednesday (based on the Alexandre Dumas\u2019 book, The Count of Monte Cristo) has been such delicious and addictive entertainment for me.<\/p>\n
The show is set beachside in the Hamptons.\u00a0 Flashbacks show Amanda Clarke as a dimpled eight year-old living with her adoring widowed father, David.\u00a0 He says things to her like, \u201cI love you infinity times infinity\u201d.\u00a0 Then their sweet life is turned upside down by a corrupt self-serving group of rich folks. \u00a0\u00a0On a dark night, Amanda is snatched from her father in a horrific scene with the FBI aggressively infiltrating their home.\u00a0 She eventually ends up in juvenile detention and her father is jailed for terrorism crimes he didn\u2019t commit.\u00a0 He dies in prison just weeks before Amanda is released.\u00a0 Upon her release, Nolan (a guy whose company her Dad invested in) hands her a wooden box filled with sentimental trinkets from her childhood, access to a huge bank account (she is 49% owner of Nolan\u2019s extremely successful venture) and a pile of her father\u2019s handwritten journals.\u00a0 Within the pages, her father writes the true story of what happened, includes details of every character who contributed to his demise and asks her for one thing \u2013 that Amanda do what he wasn\u2019t able to do\u2026forgive.<\/p>\n
She won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Instead, she chooses to seek revenge on everyone involved in ruining her father. Every night, she examines the details of her father\u2019s journals.\u00a0 She changes her identity to Emily Thorne (played skillfully by Emily VanCamp), creates the resume of a wealthy young person interested in \u201cgood causes,\u201d and settles right in the middle of the wealthy, good-looking and well-dressed Southampton community.\u00a0 In fact, she rents the house next door to the powerful Grayson family, the center of the society there. \u00a0Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe) and the rest of Emily\u2019s enemies, comprise a rich, powerful, partying group involved in high levels of finance and politics.<\/p>\n
However, no amount of power, wealth or social standing is enough of a match for hardened-by-circumstances, tough-as-nails Emily \u2013 a blonde, winning, beautiful young woman with gorgeous cheekbones, a perfect dress for every occasion and deeply sinister underlying goals. \u00a0If Emily gets her wish, this group is going down and going down hard.<\/p>\n
In other words, revenge is Emily\u2019s fulltime job, and she manages to ruin the lives of at least one or two powerful people per show\u2026 \u00a0all with flawless make-up, perfectly coiffed hair, four-inch heels and a cute perky smile.<\/p>\n
Will she actually get retribution?\u00a0 Or will she end up in one of the two graves about which Confucius warns?<\/p>\n
With a lead character as compelling and complex as this lady, I\u2019ll be tuning in to find out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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