Revenge Recap: Scar Tissue That I Wish You Saw…

Revenge

By Foggywood | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | 9:57 am | 10 Comments
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With all of the hubbub in Faux’s hospital room, it is a surprise they even noticed an old friend slip in to send his well wishes – Mason Treadwell. Mason has returned to the Hamptons to investigate the current Grayson dramz and perhaps to get a little REVENNNGE of his own. He didn’t leave under very good circumstances last year, if you recall.


“Does anyone have Nolan’s number?”

Mason creeps around for the hour with his investigative eye – scoping out Kara, dropping in on Victoria (the maid must still be pissed off she had to clean up all that blood last week), taking note of Faux’s naked back (and backside?) in her hospital gown. All of this culminates in his final drop by at Emily’s where he calls out Faux, asking where her about her missing fire scars. He knows Faux is faux and will do all he can with this info. REVENNNGE is a two way street, baby!


Nice Mason – real classy investigation you’re running

Through the course of all this and perhaps most significantly for this episode (and the whole show?), Emily seemingly broke, oh ALL, her rules by – gulp – acting like a human being. GASP! The behavior went from slight signs of repressed humanity and caring to an eventual, pretty cathartic breakdown.

1) She woke up in the arms of Aiden which was quickly eradicated when she shut him down by saying “Eh, you were here. Whatevs.”

2) When Nolan told her his father had passed away she seemed genuinely sorry and apologized to him for not being there for him. She also seemed sorry to have to tell Nolan that Padma had been poking around Grayson. Sympathy! Genuine sympathy! Takeda no likee.

3) She freely, without duress or obvious motive, admitted to the beat down baby mama that her child was in fact Jack’s. And apologized for the way she treated her proxy (all the cool kids have proxies nowadays – get with it!). Sense of remorse and responsibility! Whodathunkit?

4) After telling Faux to dismiss Krazy Kara, she listens at the door. Apart from flashback, this was definitely the most vulnerable we have seen Ms. Emily Amanda Thorne Clarke. Kara apologized to Faux (and the real Amanda) by telling her she had to leave her as a child – she was not well (hence the Krazy). The tears came to both girls, and Faux (by proxy) forgave Kara for Emily.

The scene was extremely touching and well played by all involved (especially Emily Van Camp) and the way the scene was shot with Emily framed right next to Kara was perfect. Personally, the show needed this humanity to come through for our heroine at this point. A lot of nonsense seems to have crowded the show and it was great to see the basic fundamental drive and emotion of Emily.


But she still doesn’t get the hug. :(

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10 Comments

  1. 1
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 10:39 am

    I completely agree about the name Carl. Hopefully, it has some sentiment behind it. If not, wtf were they thinking???

  2. 2
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 10:55 am

    The reason Jack and Faux named the baby Carl is because that was his dads name…

    I feel bad for Nolan, he finally found someone that he likes, and she is a shady bitch!

  3. 3
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 11:07 am

    Buggs – Thanks for the name explanation!

    I am still holding out that Padma is good…

  4. 4
    ellemenop
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 11:08 am

    i did know the story behind carl, but it just makes me think of my old boss .. who was like two years older than i was (i was 23) and an EVP … and it cracks me up ….

    now padma is becoming more like the actress’s rebecca (greek) character. that’s the girl i’m used to. haha.

    your caption about the tin foil cracked me up!

  5. 5
    April
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 11:55 am

    I still think Padma might be good although the whole character does not make a lot of sense.

    The whole remove glasses and take down hair and wow she is hot is my freaking life story. I had glasses in high school and dressed modestly and I was invisible. Get contacts and wear low cut shirts and the guys are all over it. Go figure.

  6. 6
    Enrique's Mole
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    WTF did Jennifer Jason Leigh do to her face?! That is the real mystery this season…

  7. 7
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    Enrique- maybe she got plastic surgery?? But she looked the same in Weeds.

  8. 8
    Percysowner
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 4:19 pm

    Dear Faux,

    You are one of the few genuinely good people on the show and you manage to do it without being totally boring, unlike Jack and Declan who are poor, honest, noble and yawn worthy. You have anger management issues, admittedly but you only actually killed Frank and hot though he may have been, we’ve kind of forgotten him by now. You are loyal and loving and forgiving. You have a child by the man you love and although he would bore the heck out of me, you want him and he’s ready to give it another try. I think it is time to buy yourself a nice red shirt and prepare to buy the farm. I know you love real Amanda, but don’t make her a guardian to Carl. I’m sure she would do her best, but that would probably consist of putting him in a snuggy, making certain she has bottles and diapers at hand and taking him along on her revenge missions. By the time he was six, Carl WOULD know six different ways to incapacitate someone and at least three ways to kill them, plus being able to bring down entire families with ease, however this might hinder his popularity on the playground, or not depending on how well Aunt Emily teaches him to dissemble. You’ve been fun. I’ll miss you.

  9. 9
    April
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 4:33 am

    I think a 6 year old that could do that would be awesome. Reminds me of my son. He is revenging at a 5th grade level and he is only in Kindergarten. I am so proud.

  10. 10
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 8:02 am

    April – LOL!

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