ABC’s ‘Revenge’ season 4, episode 18 review: Did Emily Thorne drop the Amanda Clarke bomb?
On Sunday night, “Revenge” aired an episode that was a game-changer. It was the moment that has been four seasons in the making, and it sets the stage for what should be an insane final few episodes of the season, or even the series depending on what ABC decides to do.
In the end, there is only one way that we can break the big news so here we go: Emily Thorne is Amanda Clarke and she made the announcement at the groundbreaking ceremony for the hospital, the same one that was meant to be named after Daniel Grayson. This moment in particular caused her to feel a tremendous amount of guilt, mostly because she knew that past accusations against him played a huge role in this hospital not getting off the ground in the first place.
Emily is not going to make many friends with this decision to come clean. Just look at who she didn’t tell about this beforehand, including Nolan. This screwed him over in many ways, given that this was a secret he had hid from Louise, and one of many that facilitated the breakup between the two. He lied about Daniel’s death, and for a time, it felt like the two were genuinely falling for each other in a different way. We admit it: We were starting to ‘ship them together. Not having it work out is a bummer.
As for a few assorted odds and ends…
1. Can Victoria and Margaux just pick a strategy and stick to it, already?
2. David Clarke seems to be randomly shoehorned in with whenever a guest star his same age is on the show. He has utterly nothing to do right now.
3. Ben’s not going to be too pleased about Emily spending so much time with Jack … and let’s leave it at that.
A very strong episode overall despite our gripes, mostly because this revelation is something that really needed to happen weeks ago. Grade: B+.
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KenH
March 31, 2015 @ 2:00 am
I absolutely loved this episode. Been waiting for it for four seasons.
guest
March 30, 2015 @ 5:19 am
Only thing I liked about this episode was the Amanda bombshell in the end. The rest was not good; Kevin was OK and the rest felt like filler. I wish Margaux would just LEAVE already; without a bouncing Grayson brat, she has no reason to be on the show anymore (poor as Ashley’s storylines were after Daniel broke up with her, at least they tried to give her some juicy plot with her and Jack conspiring against Conrad). I am optimistic the next episode will be good; every time an episode has disappointed me on Revenge, the next one is very nice. I’m praying this season is the last one, mainly because I am sick of the pessimists who bring it down. While Malcolm Black was a fun villain (he is what Americon should have been; especially the short storyline part) and Daniel’s death was what the doctor ordered for his character development, I would have been content if season 3 was the last one and followed by a reunion of David and Emily with the Graysons behind them.
Katerina
March 30, 2015 @ 3:42 am
This show is ridiculous. Did ABC pay this website to say it was good? Emily was saved by Daniel but SHE accused him of beating her so I don’t know who the “his” is in MattCarter’s version. But who cares, anymore. Revenge makes no sense, characters swing back and forth and the once glorious Victoria of season 1 has the worst writing ever. They took a fascinating character and forgot her complexity. I guess she’ll be relegated to doing something horrible just to keep the show going while Emily skates along, using people till she gets a happy ending. I like Nolan but all the men exist to serve the glory of their sociopath Emily. Time for the writers to give the men some balls. Oh well, congratulations ABC for not having a clue. I won’t b watching this train wreck.