Revenge S04E01 Renaissance
Revenge is back and I'm conflicted about a number of things that happened in Renaissance but overall I think I liked the episode It was hard for me to concentrate when Nolan's hair was in such a desperate state I just wanted to grab his face and drag him to the nearest bathroom and wet it down like a good friend would do (honestly Emily should've been concerned because that hair is obviously a cry for help) but I powered through the episode. And once I got over the follow up shock of Margaux's new blonde 'do I started coming around on a few things like the idea that Emily doesn't know how to spend her time now that she's accomplished her goals so she's trying to exact revenge for people who don't even want revenge. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's break it down...
Emily moved... next door
A lot can change in six months apparently. Emily is now living in Grayson Manor which isn't actually called Grayson Manor anymore since no Graysons live there but whatever. Forgive me if the summer hiatus has erased the answer from my brain but where did Emily get enough money to buy that house Or did the mayor of South Hampton just say Thank you for your hard work please take this mansion as a sign of our thanks and respect for all you did to rid the world of the two most interesting people this town has ever known You know what not important. The main thing to take away from Emily's storyline this week is that she's a human being without a cause right now. For so long all she wanted to do was destroy the Graysons and clear her father's name and now that she's finally done that (R.I.P. Conrad I miss you like crazy you little bastard) she's got no direction in life. All she's done lately is take on the responsibility of hosting the annual Memorial Day Party and live in Grayson Manor. And it looks like that Season 4 trailer wasn't lying because from where I sit Emily is well on her way to becoming Victoria (albeit without a conniving seriously unhinged husband). All of which is to say Seeing Emily with no purpose is why I wish Revenge would've concluded with that crazy Season 3 finale (and it sounds like star Emily VanCamp agrees with me). It's not pretty. Revenge ing for the sake of revenge does not a good story make.
Victoria escaped... only to be captured
Victoria is free from the psychiatric hospital Emily that admitted her to in the Season 3 finale after just one episode which was a smart move on the writers' part because a locked up Victoria is more boring than whatever scheme Margaux's brother Gideon is cooking up (coking up ). However she's been newly chloroformed by David Clarke who's hiding out in his old house like... like... I don't know whatever it is that hides. I have no idea what's going to come of this development between the former lovers (what does he even want with her Does he want to punish her now too ) but it'd better not involve Vee falling back into his arms unless she's also wielding a steak knife and lunging for his heart. I know she assisted Conrad in framing David a man she claimed to have loved and with whom she had a child for international terrorism so if anyone should be getting stabbed by cutlery it should probably be Victoria but I will never allow that to happen because then Revenge would be incredibly dull and because I take issue with a man who lets his daughter do his dirty work. Man up David Clarke
Anyway you've got to hand it to Victoria because who else would befriend Lisa Simpson convince Lisa Simpson to help her stage an escape steal a woman's beautiful clothing (because that couldn't have been Vee's actual dress right They wouldn't have let her keep that ) and strut out of a psychiatric hospital like a baller with a clear plastic umbrella No one that's who. But if Revenge attempts a David/Victoria romance of any kind this season I'm going to throw up all that fancy champagne I guzzled at Emily's party because the only true love on this show is between Nolan and his sailor boys. Or maybe Nolan and Emily but eww not that kind of love.
Daniel is poor... and Charlotte is as dumb as a sack of rocks
So Daniel doesn't have any money and he's selling all his stuff in order to give off the appearance that he didn't go down with the sinking ship that was the S.S. Conrad. Plus he's bankrolling Charlotte's drug habit without even realizing it. Also there's still that whole dead hooker thing from the finale which is still just as boring to me today as it was then so let's move on...
Oh wait no. I have one more thing to say GET A JOB YOU LAZY ASS.
Jack fulfilled his lifelong dream of... becoming a cop
That's right Jack is now a cop which is apparently something he's wanted for awhile now but seems silly because I don't recall Jack ever mentioning that he wanted to join the men in blue. Anyway things aren't going so great now that he let Charlotte off for doing cocaine in Emily's billiards room in front of his training officer (Brian Hallisay who you might remember from Privileged and not The Client List). Smooth move bro. That's probably going to win you a ton of points back at the police academy or whatever. Regardless I like that Emily has an inside man in law enforcement now and honestly Revenge probably should've done that before because you know that's going to come in handy.
Nolan is... Nolan and still the person who knows Emily best
For all my problems with Nolan's hair this week (is he going through a Christopher Walken phase ) he's still got Emily's back no matter what and he's still the one person who can call her on her bullshit without fear of red sharpie retaliation. He recognized her inability to stop scheming and called her on it but he truly has her best interests at heart and that's why they're still the best relationship on Revenge. He wants to help her readjust to a non revenge lifestyle and I hope in turn she will eventually sit him down and tell him that his hair looks awful. It's a symbiotic relationship that these two have so Emily needs to stop shutting Nolan out and just ask for his help in figuring out who she is now.
Oh and he also bought her a throne of her own for Grayson manor. It looks a lot more comfortable than Queen Victoria's old one which is a plus but it also further proves my point about Emily possibly becoming the new Victoria.
So where does all that leave us
Overall I think I enjoyed this fresh new start to Season 4 and I think it's for one reason and one reason only Emily wasn't scheming to destroy the Graysons. That storyline went on about a season too long in my opinion and I'm glad to be rid of it. Now that Victoria is free though I wonder how long it will be until Emily starts plotting against her again she wasn't at all surprised and even looked a bit happy to see Victoria show up at her door in the episode's final moments and that worries me. Screw Charlotte's drug issues the real addict here is Emily and she's addicted to the adrenaline rush she experiences when she takes someone down. I don't know what I want from Revenge Season 4 but I know I don't want to see Emily back at war with Victoria. I don't want to rehash the same old storylines again and again so here's hoping that David Clarke can take this show in a new direction (even if I think bringing him back from the dead was a terrible mistake).
NOTESUm check out this guy checking out Nolan's butt.
Who wore it better Emily Thorne or former Teen Wolf star Crystal Reed
What did you think of Renaissance
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