'...soon you'll find that if you try to save her, it renews her anger, you will never win...'
Revenge: Sadly, unlike the lead in TSC, I am not impressed by this show’s main chick. She’s too…bland, softly-spoken, unconvincing…I don’t get any sense of contained menace from her. I feel no underlying threat in her words, no leashed tigress quality in her movement, just…nothing to indicate she isn’t really an ordinary teen girl. Which,
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The whole 'Count of Monte Cristo' notion from the female POV is what sucked me in, and so far, I think it'll be interesting to follow
Have you read the actual book or seen the movie or whatever? Everyone keeps referencing it and I'm curious what, if any, parallels there are, other than seeking revenge, obv.
By all appearances, she looks like a girl who's harmless and innocent, but then the audience realize that there's so much more going on below that calm exterior
I just feel like the actress doesn't do enough to make me believe there's a cold-blooded manipulator under that harmless, innocent exterior, y'know? When she's playing innocuous and all, I can buy it, but the moments I need for her to bring something extra to see her as this shrewd schemer fall flat. But that's just my opinion, I'm glad she works for you. ^_^
I can't help but wonder how this show can possibly last more than one or two seasons. I mean, once it runs through the inevitable 'revenge'/Count of Monte Cristo storyline, then what?
IKR? I was just pondering this. There were, what, four people to get revenge against? And one of them is done after the first ep. So unless Lydia comes back, stronger than ever, and Emily has to take her down again, IDK how they're gonna stretch the other three for the rest of the season (depending how long it is, 13 eps or 20+, it might be too weak to keep the revenge for those people hanging for that long).
Given the opening of the series, I'm assuming the events there at the engagement party will be in the last ep of the season- so that means that Victoria and her husband are still standing that long. So what's going to be filling in the space til then?
(also, do you think Victoria is suspicious of Emily? She was all warm and welcoming, then the sudden switch to 'where the hell is my son?' which I assumed meant she knew Emily was up to no good. So maybe the season is a cat-and-mouse game with Emily trying to outmaneuver her but being constantly checked by Victoria? Or was her hissed comment merely hostile mother-in-law behavior and not indicating any awareness of duplicity on Emily's part?
Also, do you think Emily had the fiancee killed? It's just weird, 'coz she's after the people who wronged her, killing an innocent seems excessive.
Maybe Emily develops a taste for destroying lives and killing people and the rest of the series is her becoming a sadistic serial killer? *g*)
I can't stand annoying characters like that blond guy in the picture above. Frankly, the only time I found him to be 'real' was in the flashback, when he was still acting like an inexperienced start-up geek.
LOL. You and I have totally different opinions! I actually liked Nolan, I thought he was kinda cool. And I hate that Emily beat him up- wtf was that about? The dude made her rich! It was unnecessary. I know it was meant to be a GIRL POWER moment but the flashback showed that he helped her and he was never a threat, so meh.
They always make her play Jennifer Garner's younger self in films like '13 Going on 30' and 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'
Really? It's so cool that you know that!
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