WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THE SERIES FINALE OF REVENGE YET.
I’m usually sad every time a TV show that I’ve watched for years ends. Not this time. I’m actually glad “Revenge” is over, because it got worse and crazier each new season.
The first season was great and exciting, with Amanda/Emily (Emily VanCamp) plotting with Nolan (Gabriel Mann) to make the Grayson family pay for incriminating her father for something he didn’t do and his following. By season four, however, there were so many plot twists and deaths that I lost track of the characters that were on the show at some point.
Moreover, on this season the thing I hate most about TV shows happened: they resurrected a character that was supposed to be dead for many years (in this case, Amanda/Emily’s father, David Clarke [James Tupper], the reason why she was after revenge to begin with). Not only was he back from the dead, he was also a bad guy. After countless plot twists and manipulations, especially by Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe), he goes back to being the good guy, but ends up having a tragic end.
The series finale, that aired earlier this week, was written even before the show was officially canceled by ABC, but it tied everything up in such a way that I believe the show’s producers already knew its faith. It had been losing viewers every season, and the reason, for me, is really simple: it got way too crazy and complicated. As I said before, there were so many deaths that I couldn’t even tell the story properly, even if I wanted to. Also, the characters betrayed each other so often that you quickly lose track of who is helping whom.
Overall, I liked the ending. Everybody had closure, even though I never liked the idea of Emily and Jack together (but, again, everybody she ever dated died…). Victoria finally paid for her acts, as well as Margaux (Karine Vanasse), who redeemed herself at the end.
It’s just a pity that a show that started so well really disappointed me this way.
