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REVENGE To say Revenge has upped its mel- absurd. That, however, is precisely odrama for season two would be what its strength is. an understatement. Madeleine Stowe’s Victoria Grayson The first run, which introduced us to remains the perfect villain; deliverEmily Vancamp’s Emily Thorne as a ing lines padded out with words like troubled ice queen desperate to get “beseech” and “pray” in everyday vengeance for her father’s death, questions like she was in a Shakefilled a glossy, brilliantly nonsensical spearean tragedy, all the while dehole that would soon be left vacant livering icy stares and occasional by the departing Desperate House- slaps like only she can. wives. Now that that show has well and truly come to an end, Revenge Emily Thorne, meanwhile, is seeing has pushed itself so far away from her quest for revenge becoming feasible reality that it borders on the ever more complicated. For a start,
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she’s started to realise that it’s The Initiative who have been pulling the strings on the Graysons and who are ultimately responsible for her father’s wrongful imprisonment and death many years earlier. Meanwhile Amanda Clarke, the girl she traded identities with before starting her mission, is starting to grow tired of their strange set-up and just wants to settle down with Jack Porter (Emily-as-Amanda’s childhood sweetheart) and their newborn son. When the show really throws com-