ABC's Revenge Review

ABC’s Revenge Review

The network of ABC has been struggling over the last few years. Especially, when it comes to Wednesday nights. But this fall they hope to change that. Based on the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas is Revenge. Only this time it’s told from a female perspective.

Emily Thorne played by Emily VanCamp of Brothers and Sisters is on a mission to destroy the people who framed her father for a crime he did not commit and ended in his death. She decides to move back to the Hamptons so she can be close to her enemies and to learn more about them while she is plotting her revenge. Madeline Stowe plays Victoria Grayson the matriarch of the family the killed her father. Soon after Emily arrives we learn through a series of flashbacks about her memories of the Hamptons with her father and friends. In fact, she bumps into two of them after she starts moving in. She has changed her name so nobody will remember her. One by one she will stop at nothing to take down the Grayson’s, and anyone who was involved with her father’s murder.

After watching the pilot you could tell that she is not fooling around. And I for one am impressed with how this is being done so far. Emily VanCamp is convincing in her role here that you can sympathize with her a little. Her father tells her in a final letter that she should forgive. But, for her this is not about forgiveness. Changing it to a different perspective and the location, as well as making it more modern was a good choice here. I give Revenge three and a half out of a possible four stars. All-new episodes air Wednesday’s at 10/9c on ABC. What do you think of this modern tale? Did they cast the right people? Is the location right for this type of story? Or is this another one of ABC’s mistakes? Send us an e-mail ryan@therpmshow.com

By Ryan Matthews

Host and Producer, The RPM Show