ABC’s ‘Revenge’ season 4, episode 12 review: Is Louise really crazy?
Instead, we learned that her family has actually been poisoning her brain in a way using medication, that way she continues to give the impression of being crazy. Why? That is something that we are still curious to see play out. Still, we give both Elena Satine and the writers a lot of credit for making us care about this character. Weeks ago, we were not entirely sure that we were going to be able to do that, given that most other newcomers to the show tend to be negatively-received. At this point, we’re not too thrilled about Margaux, and we don’t even like David very much. But seeing Nolan try to stand up for his new friend, and orchestrate a potential takedown of his own? Pretty entertaining.
While the Louise story was a whole lot of fun for us to watch unfold, we are also aware that this is probably not what the majority of people are going to spend their time discussing moving into the days ahead. Instead, that particular subject of conversation will be most likely seeing what happened with Victoria and Emily. They may hate each other, but they now have themselves in the same position due to their over-ambition and desire to figure David out: Captured at the hands of Malcolm Black. They have to rely on others, and each other, if they want to stay alive.
This episode had a number of nice little moments in it throughout, and the David flashbacks gave us a slightly better sense as to where he was all of those years, and why he didn’t reach out to Emily. We still cannot say with a straight face that this was a wonderful episode as a whole, but many of its individual pieces worked. Grade: B.
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Em
January 12, 2015 @ 9:39 am
I completely disagree with this review. The only thing that was even remotely entertaining about the character of Louise was how crazy she was. Without that, what on earth is the point? She adds nothing to the show, she’s not connected to the main storyline in any way and at this late stage in the show it seems completely misguided to add a new main character who has no real connection to Emily, Victoria or David. If she’d been introduced a couple of seasons ago, then maybe fair enough, but why now when the show is clearly starting to wind down towards it’s inevitable conclusion? It’s just too late.
Margaux on the other hand has been around for quite a while now and she’s connected to the main storyline. She has a long standing connection to the Graysons, she’s carrying Daniel’s child, her father was directly involved in the David Clarke coverup and now she knows Emily’s true identity. She has a reason to be there and a purpose. Plus, she’s strong willed, intelligent, she doesn’t take crap from people and she’s literally the only character in the show that manages to humanize Victoria. All admirable traits. I certainly know who I prefer.