Victoria’s (Madeleine Stowe) got a gun! The Feb. 10 episode of Revenge began with a flashback to the past of what was meant to be: Jack (Nick Wechsler) and real Amanda (Emily VanCamp) as kids — planning a wedding! But we all know how that worked out. Thanks, Faux-manda. Thanks a lot.

Speaking of Faux-manda, she went to the Graysons’ for help with Stowaway problems and, of course, Emily had to bail her out again with a check containing way too many zeroes.

Despite all the problems in the Hamptons surrounding the Porter family, there was a wedding to be had — and Jack finally shaved! My heart shattered as tears fell down Emily’s face at Jamanda’s wedding, and I almost cried when Emily gave Amanda a memento of her and Jack’s wedding as children. But when all was said and done, Faux-manda dug her own grave by blackmailing Conrad (Henry Czerny) with video files she stole from Emily’s stash of revenge evidence.

Victoria tried to prove to Daniel (Joshua Bowman) that The Initiative was setting him up, and even had a bitch-on-bitch showdown with Helen Crowley, the head of The Initiative. Helen threatened to take Daniel away from Victoria if she didn’t hand over the evidence from flight 197, so Victoria… well, she shot her in cold blood!

In other sad news, Nolan (Gabriel Mann) discovered Aiden’s sister actually died 6 years ago, and there was even autopsy confirmation of her death! Aiden is now more capable than ever of revenge against The Initiative, and he was pushing away the one person who knows more about vengeance than he ever will!

To put the icing on Emily’s heartbroken cake, Daniel broke things off with her, claiming it wasn’t the best time to rekindle their relationship. In the end, Aiden came to his senses and apologized, and they cuddled by a fire. Personally, I think it’s best to have a sweet, endearing moment right before The Amanda explodes on next week’s episode!

— Jaymie Bailey

The Jan. 20 episode of Revenge got pretty heated when Emily (Emily VanCamp) and Daniel (Joshua Bowman) flew off to Los Angeles, as Helen Crowley ordered Aiden to kill Victoria (Madeleine Stowe). You know, just the usual Revenge drama.

Daniel had a meeting with Stonehaven, a disaster-relief company Grayson Global wished to procure, and he needed his lucky charm — aka his ex-fiancé Emily — by his side. Daniel also had a little pleasure in mind for the trip, but his getaway was quickly ruined by Victoria. She showed up to make sure Jason secured Stonehaven in order to protect her son, all the while unaware that Aiden had also arrived — to kill her! Helen suggested Aiden’s sister was still alive, and in order to get her back, he must kill the Queen of the Hamptons.

Initially, Mr. Procer dropped out of the running because Aiden revealed that whoever gained Stonehaven would also acquire a nice lawsuit as a party favor. To guarantee that Jason stayed in the running for the business, Victoria offered herself as his true prize. In the end, with the help of some dirt-digging from Nolan (Gabriel Mann), Daniel secured the company, and his head grew three sizes that day. Oh, and no worries, Emily stopped Aiden from killing Victoria. Whew, that was a close call!

The case against Jack (Nick Wechsler) started to get more complicated, so obviously, it was Conrad (Henry Czerny) and his checkbook to the rescue! The police found a gun aboard Jack’s boat and they accused him of murdering Joe Ryan — the Ryan brothers’ father — but Conrad had a confession from his actual killer, Mr. Duncan. Conrad offered the brothers a $50,000 check for just a simple signature and a departure from the Hamptons in return.

On a lighter note, everyone almost forgot Charlotte’s (Christa B. Allen) birthday, or canceled plans to celebrate; and as a birthday gift to herself, Charlotte changed her last name from “Grayson” to “Clarke.” Shockingly, Emily admitted her alliance with Victoria to Daniel — and even MORE shockingly, Daniel knew what was going on! He just pushed to see how far Emily would go to help him. (Now you’re learning, Daniel. Now you’re learning.)

In other news, due to an amateur slip up, Nolan figured out that Padma was playing him like a fiddle, and he played her right back! He planted a fake flash drive to the program, Carrion, that she’d been searching for while spying for The Initiative, and he caught her uploading the file — hook, line and sinker. It seemed like everyone in the Hamptons was having a hard time trusting each other, and Aiden was no exception. He received footage from The Initiative of his sister’s death from a drug overdose, and threatened to blame everything on Emily if it turned out she actually died. Fingers crossed that she’s still alive! You can’t be mad at Emily Thorne. You just can’t.

Revenge returns Feb. 10, when we’ll see scenes from the first episode of season two. Plus, Jack and Amanda will have their wedding, and — wait for it — someone will die protecting Emily Thorne! Any guesses?

— Jaymie Bailey

On the Dec. 2 episode of Revenge, everyone in the Hamptons was on edge before the voting that would determine the new CEO of Grayson Global. A new face in town named Salvador was the swing vote, and while he initially leaned towards Daniel (Joshua Bowman), the Graysons had a plan to protect their son from replacing Conrad (Henry Czerny), thus protecting him from The Initiative.

Thanks to Marco — Nolan’s (Gabriel Mann) former employee and ex-boyfriend — Daniel gained 51 percent of NolCorp after blackmailing and threatening Nolan with a criminal investigation based on the missing $500 million! After hearing the news, Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) turned the tables on her son after Nolan delivered a sex tape of Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) and Conrad. By promising not to tell Daniel, Victoria manipulated her to sleep with Salvador in order to secure his vote for Conrad. Man, Ashley sure gets around!

Because all things must go Emily Thorne’s (Emily VanCamp) way, Aiden lured Daniel to Salvador’s room, where he found Ashley and photographed them in nothing but bathrobes. After Daniel threatened to show the picture to his wife, who controlled his money, Salvador promised his vote — and he won the CEO position at Grayson Global!

The Ryan brothers — the business partners who are supposedly helping Jack (Nick Weschler) and Declan (Connor Paolo) believed that Jack’s dad murdered their father, but he only covered for his friend Matt Duncan (as seen in last week’s flashback episode). All along, their plans were set in motion in order to get a little payback with the Porter family. However, it was Mr. Duncan who suffered a severe beating from the Ryans, landing him in the hospital.

Despite his parents’ warnings, Daniel gained the CEO position at Grayson Global, and he’s now a pawn in the Initiative’s game of domination. Nolan also has more control over Daniel and the company than he realized. Along with Emily, he planned to control Grayson Global from the inside.

Finally, the shock of a lifetime occurred occurred, setting up an interesting twist for the show’s January return: Emily Thorne and Victoria Grayson… will become partners! Emily will have leverage and Victoria will manipulate Daniel — who is still head over heels for Miss Thorne — in order to protect him.

Can’t wait for January, right?

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The Nov. 25 episode of Revenge flashed back to Thanksgiving 2006, when Emily (Emily VanCamp) first planned her revenge on the Graysons, and when Victoria’s (Madeleine Stowe) mother Marion took the crown for biggest b***h in town. But before taking action against her worst enemies, Emily completed a risky mission for Takeda — and gained an ally.

Posing as a prostitute, Emily set the groundwork for Takeda to eliminate a man involved in sex trafficking, which is where she met Aiden (Barry Sloane) for the the first time. After he was captured by Dimitri, the man who took his sister, Emily tried to rescue Aiden, but both were caught and held at gunpoint. In true Emily fashion, she kicked some serious butt — in heels, might I add — and everyone managed to escape, except Dimitri, who Aiden shot in cold blood!

Back at NolCorp, half a billion dollars disappeared from the company, and Nolan’s (Gabriel Mann) boyfriend Marco refused to accept Nolan’s lies about where the money had gone. Even though he tried to do what was right and give the money to Amanda, Nolan lost someone important to him, as well as someone with a score of his own to settle! Meanwhile at the Stowaway, Jack’s (Nick Weschler) father dug himself farther into debt, and we discovered his secret: his friend shot a man who had been looking to collect his money!

The Grayson family Thanksgiving table was complete with a turkey and all the fixings, but the family love was no where to be found. Another flashback to Thanksgiving-past revealed that when Marion’s husband threatened to leave, she coaxed Victoria to shoot him and take the blame since no jury would ever convict her. (Not to mention that Marion chose a pedophile over her own daughter, who she threw out of the house.)

Victoria said it perfectly when she told her mother she learned from the best, because everything was a set-up! Victoria paid the new man her mother invited for Thanksgiving, set up their meeting on a cruise and even acted like they didn’t know him at the Grayson holiday dinner — only to ruin her mother’s life just like she’d ruined hers. The title of the show becomes more appropriate with every episode.

Flash forward to present day: Aiden has taken Daniel’s (Joshua Bowman) place in Emily’s — scratch that, Amanda‘s — bed; Daniel sneakily called Marco, Nolan’s ex-boyfriend and NolCorp employee; and the Graysons planned to keep Daniel away from Grayson Global… for his own safety.

And how did you spend YOUR Thanksgiving?

— Jaymie Bailey

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of loyalties dying in the Hamptons, which is pretty much what the Dec. 7 episode of Revenge was all about. By the end of the hour, no alliance — or sex tape — was safe, and Emily’s (Emily VanCamp) big secret began to unravel before her very eyes.

I’ll begin by saying this: We all hate Tyler (Ashton Holmes). And by “we,” I literally mean all of us — the characters on the show, the viewers at home, our pets. All of us. The guy’s just a dirty little weasel. So I was thrilled when his and Nolan’s (Gabriel Mann) sex tape — which I’m still waiting for a copy of, by the way — was exposed as the means to which he got Nolan to invest with Conrad (Henry Czerny).

Surely this would get him fired, and therefore banished from the Hamptons for good, right? Well, not quite, unfortunately. Just as quickly as Conrad terminated his position at the company, Tyler came back at him with a little shocker of his own: He knows everything! Like, literally everything.

Speaking of knowing things, Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) did a little eavesdropping on a conversation between Emily and Daniel (Joshua Bowman), and now she knows that Amanda Clarke (Margarita Levieva) is back in the Hamptons. It’s rare to see Victoria looking anything less than in-control — especially when she’s sipping her tea… like a bitch — but when she found out Amanda was back, she seemed absolutely petrified.

But for me, the saddest twist of all — besides Tyler tossing the sex tape into Nolan’s pool — was the dissolution of Nolan and Emily’s weird little friendship. They’ve been partners in crime (slash Ralph Lauren-clad besties) all season, and now that they’re at odds, I’m pretty uncomfortable. Almost as uncomfortable as I get when I think about Tyler’s non-eyebrows.

Ugh, I shuddered again just thinking about them.

The promo for the next new episode — which, God willing, won’t be too far in the future — was somehow more intense than tonight’s entire hour. Picture this: Everyone you care about on the show at a birthday party on the beach. Oh, and Tyler’s got a gun. Did I forget to mention that?

— Andy Swift

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The “real” Emily Thorne (Margarita Levieva) made herself at home on the Nov. 16 episode of Revenge by cozying up to the people in “fake” Emily’s (Emily VanCamp) life, including Jack (Nick Wechsler), who she seemed to take a particular liking to. Scenes from next week’s episode reveal her hanging out on “the Amanda,” though maybe they should rename that boat the S.S. Foreshadowing. I’ve got a feeling some bad stuff is about go down.

As always, Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) spent this week’s episode guarding her secrets; and as always, the ever-weasely Tyler (Ashton Holmes) spent the episode sticking his wet weasel where it doesn’t belong. Thanks to some late-night spying — and a paper shredder that produces unusually thick strips — Tyler now knows what Lydia (Amber Valletta) had planned to reveal in her speech the night she was attacked. So basically, he knows everything.

And because there’s nothing soapier than a beautiful lady with amnesia in a wheelchair, Lydia made her triumphant return this week. In a wheelchair. With partial amnesia. She claims to have no memory of what happened the night she was attacked — plus fuzzy memories of other key events — but can we be real for a second? Like, really real? I think we all know Lydia is lying her bed-ridden face off. She’s just biding her time. That’s what sneaky bitches do. They bide stuff.

There were also plenty of same-sex shenanigans, but it wasn’t round two for Nolan (Gabriel Mann) and Tyler. No, this week’s blatant homoerotic moments came courtesy of the two Emilys — or the two Amandas, whatever. Every time they were on-screen together, the hair-touching and eye-humping was undeniable. And the more we learn about their past at the correctional facility, the more I think they had a “special” relationship. Like the kind you’d see on The L Word. Or in that Lady Gaga video where she makes out with herself dressed like a man.

And why exactly was “Emily” placed at said correctional facility? She told Daniel (Joshua Bowman) it was because her foster father was abusive, and she did “something” to shut him up. She’s suddenly not the sweet, innocent girl he thought she was. Daniel should watch more promos for the show; he needs to clued in. Desperately.

Speaking of Daniel, he actually served up two of my favorite moments this week: Not only did he provide the sexiest alibi ever for Emily — “She was in bed with me… all night” — but he also told off Victoria in a way she’s never been told off before. Too bad Victoria doesn’t like to be challenged. He told her to “stay away from Emily,” but I’m thinking she interpreted that as “Please continue to destroy Emily. In fact, try harder from now on.”

So what do you think: Did Lydia really lose her memory? Is “fake” Emily going to be jealous that “real” Emily is spending time with Jack? And when the hell are Nolan and Tyler going to hook up again? Hit the comments section, frenemies! 

— Andy Swift

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Can you imagine Emily (Emily VanCamp) beating Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) with a pillow the next time she gives her the stink-eye on Revenge? You will after you watch this insane new video from celebrity photographer-slash-genius Tyler Shields, which finds the show’s stars — Emily, Joshua Bowman, Nick Wechsler, Gabriel Mann, Ashley Madekwe, Christa B. Allen and Connor Paolo – in a half-naked pillow fighting frenzy. Let the feathers fly!

Click here to view the embedded video.

To see more pictures from the shoot, click here!

And just because I love to ask the question…

— Andy Swift

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Pardon the pun, but Tyler (Ashton Holmes) remained a pesky thorn in Emily’s (Emily VanCamp) side on the Nov. 2 episode of Revenge, as he outed Emily and Daniel’s (Joshua Bowman) relationship to a reporter doing a big story about the Graysons’ perfect marriage. Talk about a story in need of some serious fact-checking. Oh, and speaking of outing…

Was anyone else completely blindsided by Nolan (Gabriel Mann) and Tyler’s hookup?! One minute Nolan was accusing Tyler of being a “gay hustler,” while admitting that he’s “about a three” on the Kinsey scale himself — and before you knew it, they were totally going at it on the couch. Naturally, Nolan filmed the whole naughty ordeal; and something tells me Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) will be getting a private screening very soon.

Meanwhile, Frank’s (Max Martini) quest to uncover Emily’s past led him to a strip club, where he met the real Emily Thorne. Ever the eager beaver, Frank wasted no time calling Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) to share the news — but he definitely didn’t count on “Emily” creeping up behind him with a metal bar. Rest in peace, ya creep!

Since we have to wait 14 excruciatingly painful days for another new episode, let’s pass the time with a little theorizing: Will stripper Emily be a friend to our Emily, or a foe? How will Nolan use his sex tape to his advantage? And when will Jack (Nick Wechsler) just give up already? Seriously…

Hit the comments with your best ideas!

— Andy Swift

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