So we hardly ever have posts about Revenge here on NoWhiteNoise, which will hopefully end soon since a new writer Brianna is going to be onboard, but I need for us to discuss it here! Even if I’m late in bringing it up. I suppose I could go to a Revenge forum and geek out about it but… I don’t know those people, I know you guys. And it saddens me that we hardly talk about what I think is the best show on TV currently.

“Chaos” is the episode in the making since the beginning of the series… that it was almost season finale material. It wasn’t quite there, but a little extra oomph and it would have been. Regardless, for an episode in the middle of the season, it surely did pack a punch (and a gunshot).

THE NOT-SO SHOCKING TWIST | Most people had it pegged that Tyler would be the one who was going to try and exact murderous revenge at Read-Amanda and Daniel’s engagement party. So when his unmedicated self made an appearance at the very beginning, it wasn’t so much shocking as… well, just really fun to watch! Tyler teamed up with Real-Emily to take her down… and take her money. But what she didn’t know was that Tyler planned on killing Daniel and framing Real-Amanda — and at their own party!

THE TWIST WE DIDN’T SEE COMING | But regardless of that, what you probably didn’t think would happen (at least I didn’t) was the mystery not being who was shot but who shot Tyler! In the beginning we see someone wearing a leather jacket and gloves, removing a piece of paper from an unconscious Daniel’s hands. Then, that same hand (or is it? all we get is a shot of the gloves this time) takes two shots. We later learn that it’s not two shots at Daniel, but at Tyler.

AMANDA’S SECRETS | That piece of paper by the way, apparently could have outed Emily as Amanda Clarke. Before Tyler dragged Daniel away from the party, he showed him a picture and said that “Emily” had been playing everyone. What will come of that, I wonder? Perhaps nothing for a while since Daniel has apparently lost his memory of the night.

EVERYONE ELSE | Unfortunately, Ashley had little to do but walk around. (Does that make her the perfect suspect you’d never guess!?) I was kind of disappointed, seeing as she’s been transitioning into a Revenge revenge player, but nope. She gets bupkis during the pivotal hour. Jack doesn’t sail to Haiti even though he wants to. And the kids are not all right, in fact Amanda’s sister might be taking a liking to prescription drugs.

WHODUNIT | So who shot Tyler? Real-Amanda? Real-Emily? Daniel? Amanda’s Sensei? And what did you think about this episode?

Personally, I found the hour to be quite clever. I’ve been reading around that others are calling it a copout (I wanted Daniel to stay alive but I agree that killing him off would have been much more shocking) and that there are too many plot holes — but we haven’t seen the entirety of the night’s events unfold yet. As far as I’m concerned, someone was wearing gloves when they shot Tyler… that could have been anyone. I find myself very intrigued for the last part of this season.

Did you feel like it was a copout? Or are you intrigued by the new mystery!?