Based solely on the recruitment power of
this vid that
molly_may recced, I started watching Revenge.
I've seen two eps so far, and I am enjoying it a lot. It feels like it's been a while since I've been so immediately engaged with the characters and the plot from the pilot forward - not since Downton Abbey, anyway. I'm not sure that it's good, exactly, but it's got scheming and Woman With Plans and nerdy (yet ridiculously wealthy) BFF and lots of very pretty people. In terms of people pretending to be other people, it is much more to my taste than Ringer (which I seem to have given up on).
Eventually Emily Thorne, heiress to billions returned high society to take revenge on the people who betrayed her father, is going to need some more layers than just ruthlessness, competence, and a gorgeous chilling smirk, but right now those things are plenty.
Her buddy Nolan is
wonderful; from his first moment on-screen (
wearing this), I knew I was going to probably going to love him. (To be fair, he's clearly pretty fabulous in the vid, too.)
Madeleine Stowe is great, too, as the "reigning queen of the Hamptons." I think I've only ever seen her in
Twelve Monkeys, but was always rather fond of her in it (which reminds me I'm due a rewatch).
I will definitely be watching more.
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