This is not the type of show I usually make an effort to watch, the promos did not interest me much, pure inertia caused me to catch it last night and I was kind of surprised that I was getting into it. Not “great television” maybe but in it’s way it was kind of good. If nothing else, the lead role was very well cast, IMHO. The lead actress had the sweet, all American, girl next door thing going on but did a great job of hinting at her darker inner self with that slight smile.
I didn’t catch the promos, but noticed it on the program guide last night after “Modern Family”, so I recorded it and watched it today.
Good stuff! I’ve been a fan of Emily VanCamp ever since the short-lived ‘Glory Days’ with Eddie Cahill, (she’s an Ontario native, too! ) She did handle an edgy, dark lead role quite well. And it was fun to see Nick Weschler (from Roswell) and Connor Paolo (from Gossip Girl) showing up in supporting roles.
I assume that Connor won’t have that prominent a role as he’ll be back on GG. I’m looking forward to Emily and Nick actually having bigger scenes together!
I only decided to watch after TWOP named it the best new show of the season. I was underwhelmed but will give it a second chance. I find it hard to believe that a lab could still be alive and well after 17 years though. How did that guy end up with her dog anyway?
I was attending to a couple other things as I watched but I thought that the dog was his and he introduced her to the dog back in the day. Yeah… I agree 17 years would be pretty old for a Lab.
As I said in another thread, I can see this turning into a guilty pleasure for me. There’s something satisfying about smug superrich people getting shafted, given the current economic situation.
Since Glory Days and Roswell, I will watch anything that Emily VanCamp and Nick Weschler are in. Anything. I was psyched to learn that they’d be on a show together, and the pilot didn’t disappoint. Now I want to know if
the shooting in the opening scene was a. fatal b. commited by Emily
As for Connor, I don’t think he’s going to be on Gossip Girl any more, because a season preview article about returning shows said that people should rejoice because there would be “No more Jenny, no more Vannessa, *and *no more Eric.”
There has been A LOT of publicity for this new series. My local megaplex has constant previews of Revenge in their pre-movie show. Usually, this not a good thing.
I’m not that much of a fan of nighttime soap operas, though I DO still watch Desperate Housewives. (Don’t judge me ! ) Revenge was interesting enough to watch again. I liked the mild “caper” aspects of it and there are several sympathetic (though flawed) characters among the evil rich guys. I think it has potential – to either be good, or to plummet into horribleness.
I was surprised to have actually enjoyed it. Madeline Stowe seems like a perfect ruthless rich broad since Jane Wyman. I look forward to watching her deal with the cute young thing putting a crimp in her style.
Like it enough to keep watching - and fun to see the revenge on Revenge.
One thought - after she tears through the evil people who destroyed her life, where does a potential season 2 go?
Um, after she destroys the company that destroyed her father’s life, she becomes CEO of her own company that is contracted by the government to operate a super secret medical experiment on human beings and slowly uncovers a conspiracy that has turned the rich Hamptonites she took out in Season 1 into automatons operating as stooges for the government military industrial complex to take over the United States economy so that it can overthrow the ultra liberal government. But she will stop them single-handedly losing her only true love whose baby she’s pregnant with, although she doesn’t know it, who was horribly killed by an overdose of the experimental medication developed in the 1970s in a Stepford, CT facility.
They need to ditch the voiceovers, the actress really can’t pull them off at all. Her acting was better than I expected based on Everwood and Brothers & Sisters, but not those voiceovers.
If it’s only been a few days since a thread was likely, I find I have better luck with using control-F for the first few pages of topics than trying to search for them with the search engine. Of course, if people don’t put the show/movie in the thread title, it doesn’t help.
So far it’s in the top 25% of new shows. I enjoyed the pilot episode. I liked the touch with the dog, and it was interesting to see the ending before it started. I enjoyed the little scenario with the owner of the house but I suspect that the killing is not the revenge she planned that could be the setup for season 2.
That’s funny. Of all the things we could have nitpicked about the show, the dog is what we focused on. Big dogs like that seldom live to 17+ as spryly as the dog on the show.
Yeah, the writers are really rushing it. It’s like they’re trying to do a Monster of the Week/Patient of the Week sort of thing, and making sure to get at least one act of revenge in. As is, we’re getting a 10 second clip about the bad guy to inform us that he’s a bad person, and then some perfunctory magic to make bad things happen to him.
The writers need to spend more time with the characters, going over their good sides and their bad sides (at the moment, we’re only seeing bad). It’s the ambiguity of taking whole-sale revenge on someone who’s not entirely a bad person that really sells a story like The Count of Monte Cristo. If the bad guys are just cardboard cut-out “bad people”, you don’t really care that they’re getting gutted since they’re just cardboard people. They need to be developed, even if it ends up making the main character’s morality become more ambiguous.
And of course, they need to take the approach that good revenge takes a lot of front-work. We should be seeing Emily flitting about doing mysterious things, and even if we don’t understand exactly what it is that she’s doing, we’ll know that it’s all going to tie together to wreak holy hell. 10 second schemes which ruin someone instantly just aren’t very interesting.
I’ve also noted that the secondary cast isn’t doing very good with the dialogue, either.
I guess we’ll see. Hopefully they start moving in the right direction in the next few episodes.
) She did handle an edgy, dark lead role quite well. And it was fun to see Nick Weschler (from Roswell) and Connor Paolo (from Gossip Girl) showing up in supporting roles.