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‘Revenge’: The 12 Most Memorable Twists in the Wicked First Season

<p>With the end of&nbsp;<i>Revenge</i>’s first season, Jace Lacob examines the show’s most memorable moments so far.</p>

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The first season of ABC’s Revenge wrapped up on Wednesday night, leading to a major cliffhanger that will propel the Mike Kelley-created drama into its second year of betrayals, bait-and-switches, and vengeance plots, as Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp) continues her campaign of destruction against the mercenary and venal Grayson clan after learning a key secret about her own past.

Revenge itself can be looked at in several ways: a revenge fantasy for the 99 percent against the wealthy ruling class embodied by the morally corrupt Graysons, an ensemble drama set in the heightened reality of green-screen backdrops where the high cost of privilege is explored, or simply a wickedly good soap about one woman attempting to avenge her beloved father’s death and pay back those whose deeds led to her own family’s destruction.

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