Just a short review…
Well, that was a pretty good two hours of Revenge, wasn’t it? It’s as if those in charge have been listening to everyone’s complaints and decided to pack it into the final moments of Revenge’s sophomore season. As we’ve all pointed out, Revenge hasn’t truly been itself this season, getting muddled up in tangents and The Initiative and Padma and so on. During these two hours, the series even tried to eradicate that. Albeit, they didn’t exactly explain away The Initiative all that well (“meh, there was never really an Initiative” uh okay) but who cares? We’ll all gladly take it.
And that’s not even the biggest news. Tonight’s Revenge finale decided to hold absolutely nothing back. Eric van der Woodsen is dead. Yes, viewers, Declan has bitten the dust. And it was one of the more anticlimactic deaths on television ever. After Declan is found to be at Grayson Global, he has to have heart surgery. When there, he records a video for his brother… and them promptly dies offscreen during while under the knife. I know a lot of people were hoping for that one since episode one of season one, so much so it seemed they really just wanted to get him off the screen. Sheesh.
But I am glad for what it did to Jack’s character. The actor has been knocking it out of the park this season, and tonight, it finally gave him the drive to pull the trigger — literally. Even more so, Emily has no options left but to tell Jack the truth: she’s the real Amanda Clarke. Well, I certainly didn’t think that was going to happen any time soon.
As opposed to last season’s finale with all of the maybe-deaths and cliffhangers, season 2’s finale decided to go full-force, and what resulted from it was nothing but a gripping two hours of television. I mean, we’ve yet to even discuss Nolan getting arrested for the blackout. Or Victoria’s son Patrick returning. Or Aiden revealing everything to Emily.
Needless to say, I think I speak for everyone: this is the Revenge we’ve been waiting for all season — good, guilty pleasure, roller coaster-like fun. I’m saddened that showrunner Mike Kelley has departed with the series, but I’m hopeful that the show can get back to what made it work in its freshman season. Until fall.
Michael loves TV. You can find him at home, where he spends all of his time watching TV with his best friends couch and cable access.