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Revenge - Burn - Review: "Oh. My. God."

Apr 21, 2015

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“Burn” wasn’t to the level I was expecting, though the ending was, to say the least, spectacular. (Incredibly, spectacularly, awesome is more like it, though!) “Burn” felt too domestic, too soap-opera-y. It just didn’t feel like a show focused on revenge, it didn’t feel like “Revenge.” Still, “Burn” is going to be a pivotal episode, is going to make the Revenge Wall of Fame. How could it not? The episode marks the death of the Queen, and I still can’t believe it happened. I mean... This. Is. HUGE.

Victoria had been camped out in her hotel room, destroyed by Amanda’s public interview, stuck in the grave she dug for her, in last week’s episode, and unable to get out. Victoria has lost everyone she cares about, she’s lost everything, and, it seems, she has just nothing left to fight for. She’s lost, and Emily’s won, it’s as simple as that. But Victoria doesn’t go out without a bang.

Margaux and Louise have very different ideas on what is best for her moving on. They have old issues to work through, and watching them bickering, I felt it could be fun watching them work together in the future. Louise has quickly forgotten what Emily and Nolan did for her, that without them, she would still be at the mercy of her family, stuck in her pill addled delusions. She’s chosen the wrong side, siding with Victoria, and as Nolan points out, she’s in over her head.

Louise is mad that her fake marriage didn’t work out, mad that Nolan didn’t tell her about his best friend’s most shielded secret. I don’t know if the writers are purposefully giving everyone coming after Emily/Amanda crappy reasons so we wouldn’t, or couldn’t, root for them, but it’s definitely working. Louise comes off as naïve, impressible, whiny, and all over the place, and definitely not a worthy adversary for the duo. (Maybe, hopefully, Margaux and Louise together will be a force to be reckoned with.) She shows up at Nolan’s fundraiser, hell bent on causing drama and getting a confession out of him, but Nolan is one step ahead of her, of course. He’s learned from the best.

“You’re not going to lose me. We’re a team and we’re going to get through this because that’s what we do.” -Emily

Nolan and Emily made up, and it was heart felt. Though I still wish, they would have hugged it out, it was them. They aired out their dirty laundry, they fought, and it was good for them. They were never too big on displays of affection, but Emily told him exactly the right thing. It was time for her to acknowledge Nolan’s pain; it was time for her to really listen to his apology. They’re okay, and I would have been mad if the last episodes of this show had Emily and Nolan (who I still believe are the heart of the “Revenge”) on the outs. One episode is enough, or too much.

Not Louise’s debacle at the fundraiser, not her attempt at humiliation made Tony flee, and it’s about time Nolan got together with someone that had no link whatsoever with the revenged, someone fundamentally good. Nolan and Tony could not be from more different worlds, and while I have to side with Mason on this one, I don’t believe Emily deserves the happy ending, I believe Nolan does and, like Emily, would like seeing Nolan and Tony work out. I don’t need to see more of them, frankly I don’t find their interactions as entertaining as the rest of the characters, and think this episode had way too much of them, but I like the idea of them, like the idea of Nolan having his happily ever after with someone normal.

Victoria felt incredibly out of character in this episode. She seemed way too paranoid, way too intense, which gave me the feeling all through the episode that she was playing Emily. She’s usually poised and focused, and we didn’t get to see this Victoria until she reunited with the chair, a memento from a by-gone era.

“Now that doesn’t sound like the Victoria I know.” - Louise

Amanda has won her fight against Victoria, who has no one left to lose, and if it wasn’t for the USB key with contains the incriminating information Lyman copied from Nolan’s computer, his Infinity Box, she would be done. Victoria became obsessed, paranoid, that Emily would come after her, that she was in danger. Emily definitely managed to get inside her head, but frankly, Victoria was starting to act like a crazy person. (Louise rubbing off much?)

Victoria should know that Emily is much more into mind games than physical altercations, and while someone definitely attacked Victoria and I had a hard time believing it could have been Emily. It’s not her style, and the device Nolan made for her demonstrates she wouldn’t just jump Victoria out of nowhere. She’s calculated, precise. It’s too botched of an attack for it to be her. Isn’t it? Even though Victoria identified her, I can never believe, without proof, anything Victoria says.

When Margaux hears of what happened, she decides it’s time to take things to the FEDS, to hand over the information they have on Emily/Amanda. Setting off an alarm, and having the building evacuated, including her Victoria and her cronies, Emily, passing for a firefighter gets the thumb-drive back.

And just like that she’s done. Or so she thinks.

“You know what this means? Finishing this isn’t just a fantasy. It happened, today. For the first time in my life there are no more battles to fight.” - Emily

The most boring and unappealing part of the episode has to be David having cancer. Do we really need that storyline with only a couple of episodes left? Do we need more drama than we already have? Lymphoma just seems like a poor plot choice to simply add unnecessary drama. Doesn’t the show already have enough of that? Despite the premise of the show centered on him, despite how Amanda/Emily feels about him, after 20 episodes, I can’t come to care for him. I just can’t. And if it wouldn’t completely destroy Emily I would rather see him dead sooner rather than later.

Nolan has Tony, David has cancer, and Jack is leaving for Los Angeles with his mother. It’s would have been great way to force Amanda’s hand, if he’s just given her the chance. When Nolan, acting as the middle man between them, ran up to her with the news of his departure, I was half expecting her to say “Good for him, he deserves to be happy,” because I’m having a lot of trouble following what’s happening with them romantically. Back and forth, and back and forth again. Could you just get on the same page already?

When Jack stated he knew what he wanted to do with his life, I kind of wanted him to say he wanted to sail to Haiti, with his son, like in the first season, before Emily, before Amanda, and somehow it would have come full circle. But I guess when you’re wife dies due the explosion of your boat, it changes the appeal of the sea.


I think Jack was a jerk in this episode, and I get it, he’s tired of putting himself out there for her. He’s hurt, and he did his part when it comes to their relationship, but not giving Emily the chance to say goodbye, that’s just childish and honestly, quite mean. Was he afraid of what she’d say? Or what she wouldn’t say? Maybe he knew she would get him to stay if he gave her the chance.

Despite Emily/Amanda, I found it petty that Jack didn’t even tell Nolan, only casually mentions it, as if it’s no big deal. After all Nolan’s done for him, after all they’ve been through together.

Amanda, even though she doesn’t think she deserves him, runs after him, tries to call him, but she’s too late, and she’s left, alone. I was kind of expecting, (maybe hoping) that in a traditional TV moment, Jack to be behind her. I believed he’d have changed his mind, but he didn’t. He left, and Amanda stands alone, on the tarmac, until Mason arrives, mad he didn’t get the exclusive he was promised. Friend or foe?

“Yes, everything but you, which I suppose is just now becoming apparent, standing there, alone, on the tarmac. Realising that while you hid behind your mission of revenge, everyone else around you evolved. Did you really think they’d wait forever? Sacrificing everything and getting nothing in return. Did you honestly believe that you’d get your happily ever after? After so many lies, to so many different people, until all you had left were enemies. Like the little pyromaniac that you are, you started a fire and you convinced yourself that you could contain it. And now your dirty little secret: You can’t exist without revenge. The endless cycle of hate is your addiction. And like all tales of compulsion this will end the same way. First, you will crash. And then, you will burn.” -Mason

“Burn” can’t be the end of Victoria, can it? But holy cr*p, this ending was insane. Revenge always does poignant deaths but this one… just wow.

We watched her give up, surrender to Emily, in a totally un-Victoria way for the first half of the episode, only to come back to her ways when claiming back control, when taking things in her own hands. Victoria said goodbye to the world in her chair, wearing the ring Pascale gave her, bringing the manor down with her, one of the many things Emily had taken from her, but that she wouldn’t be keeping.

Victoria gave up, and with nothing left, blew up Ex-Grayson Manor, taking down Amanda with her. Because we know she’s the one that’s going to take the fall for it. But why? And how?


I was hard-ish on this episode, but I can’t love them all. The ending was spectacular, and if the episode had only been the last 5 minutes, I would have been jumping up and down, but it wasn’t. The rest of the episode just didn’t cut it out for me. How about you guys? Am I alone on this one?

46 comments:

  1. I was kinda at first. Now, I feel nostalgic already because you KNOW that with Vicky dead, the show is over very soon. Bittersweet to be honest.

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  2. Review bit late yesterday would been better.

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  3. Love the review! Totally agree too, you're not alone in this and I also didn't feel very much like it was an overall great Revenge episode but man, that ending made up for it. LOVED the end monologue by Mason! I got chills as he was speaking it and then Victoria blew up the manor with her in it. I knew as soon as she turned the gas on that she was going to die and my heart dropped. R.I.P. Victoria. Will be missed!

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  4. Feeling kinda sad that only 3 more episodes left for this series!

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  5. Farewell Revenge 2011-2015April 21, 2015 at 11:19 PM

    This episode blew my mind away, it was soooo good. I will miss Victoria. I agree with you about Jack, he was acting like a child.

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  6. there is no revenge without victoria grayson period.

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  7. That were presuming it hasn't been renewed for all we know it could already been renewed writers producer workington season 5 scripts.

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  8. Yeah... I'm sad she's gone because she was Victoria, but we have to give to her, she can go out with fashion!! It is bittersweet though, you're right! (Still think Conrad might still show up though! :P)

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  9. Sorry, I write when I can, and didn't have time to finish yesterday! ;)

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  10. And you wrote an awesome review too ;)

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  11. Thanks! When I finished the episode I was like wow, but when I started looking a back further than 5 minutes to the end, I realised the rest wasn't as awesome!
    The ending monologue was perfection, this had got to be the longest quote I've ever put in a review, but I just couldn't cut it, it was too great!!!
    Victoria will be missed; she made for a great villan! Did you also feel like she wasn't acting like herself for the first half of the episode, it caught me off guard.

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  12. Same here, but I feel they're going to be great! :)

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  13. I personally don't see that happening, but maybe!

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  14. The episode didn't, but the Grayson Manor blowing did blow my mind. (Bad attempt at a pun, here!)

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  15. Ahhh. Thanks Gavin! :)

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  16. We'll have to see about that! ;)
    But it will definitely be weird without her!

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  17. Can totally understand that. I felt some of it was very forced and quick, like Emily stealing back the drive from the detective guy, and Victoria getting beat up in the parking lot. It definitely felt quite off, as you said, it didn't feel like Victoria was acting herself. Where was that strong, fearless woman from the past? I can understand her being paranoid but she was a little TOO paranoid. Caught me off guard too.


    Sometimes great endings cloud the judgment of an episode as a whole so with you noticing that the entire episode wasn't up to par, I realised too. Wise decision not cutting that quote down too. So good. Every word and if it was cut, it probably wouldn't hold the same impact.

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  18. Emily is good, but she's not that good. How she managed to sneak her hand in the FBI agent's jacket while wearing a firefighter suit is a big mystery to me. I really though (before V went and blew herself up) that she was setting Emily up. I was just too easy, and Victoria overdoing it a bit on the paranoia front!


    And while I'm complaining, can we just mention the "David has cancer" plot... really?

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  19. i loved the review, the episode i felt was really good. it was all necessary to led to that ending. i think ill wait till next week to decide whether the show can live without Victoria

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  20. it took something like this to properly unite Louise and Margaux.

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  21. Goodbye Revenge 😢 2011-2015April 22, 2015 at 6:02 AM

    Great review! However, I thought it was an excellent episode overall. Sure it was slower at the beginning. Nonetheless, it still had victoria being attacked, the fire alarm, david having cancer. The ending was priceless and excellent!

    I will miss this show very very very much

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  22. Thank you for the review! I agree that this was not Revenge but soap, apart from Grayson Manor

    being blown up with the previous queen on her thrown going down in flames. I am going to take a cynical view, if David's cancer ends his SL but Emily gets to say all she needs to say to him, he can exit. Nolan/Emily repairing relationship, was honest but their progression from S1 should have been a more touching moment. Jack was a jerk, and I wish the writers would STOP using Nolan to flog the dead horse that is Jemily. Jack and Emily are adults and make no effort for the "romance", the whole rom com airport scene was beyond bad. Can we please consider this Jemily thing over? I am going to see it as a blessing in disguise that they did not connect, because after Victoria's stunt, Emily is pulled back in. And maybe it was a Freudian truth that Jemily, the albatross of the show, did not happen? Thankfully Mason saved that scene with his monologue. Welcome back Mason! How did you know to magically show up?
    Tony, no interest in him, apart from being drenched by Louise's antics. Seems he leaves next ep thankfully and hope Nolan makes it out alive from the show.
    I did not trust Victoria until she saw her chair, back in the Manor, all dolled up, serene and going out on her own terms. She really took the blueprint from the wedding plan by Emily, to a whole new level.

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  23. Great review! I am thinking there wasn't much else to do with David than to give him a potentially terminal illness...maybe Charlotte will be a bone marrow match & Emily/ Amanda will find out she is not really David's biological daughter!!! Now I know I've been watching too much TV when I think up a weird plot like that. ;)
    I'm not too fussed on seeing the scenes with Nolan and Tony either & 100% agree that there was way too much of that in this episode. I loved it when Nolan said to Louise "You, head, over!"- awesome delivery.
    It was a strange episode only to culminate with that spectacular "dying like she lived" scene with Victoria in the manor. I really thought that chair was ditched in season 3 when Lydia tossed red wine into it to annoy Victoria- maybe someone needs to share their secret on removing red wine from upholstery. It really does seem that Victoria may have been setting up Emily/ Amanda to take the blame for her death with her paranoia- but to blow up a chunk of real estate like that with all of your own belongings in it seems a bit far fetched. The issue with Emily/ Amanda & the police is Ben & the fact she played him once and now that he's mad at her there's not much chance he will believe anything she tells him.
    It will be interesting to see where the next episode goes from here- according to the writers there is more mind blowing stuff to come.
    https://twitter.com/revengewriters/status/590249111175110657

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  24. Станимира ТричковаApril 22, 2015 at 8:04 AM

    Great review! Victoria was not her typical self but did u also feel Emily was not too, she acted way too soft, way too happy in moments and it smelled like giving up her revenge, getting tired of it, wanting something else not this. She's been wanting it for several episodes now, her words to Nolan that she doesn't deserve Jack were so strong, so unexpected for me to hear, like Jack is the strong one and she is nothing...

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  25. Oh is it your review. I thought was this sites

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  26. Why would Emily/Amanda not be David Daughter that be stupid at best betrayal of whole series and i will quit the show permanently as well as all 1.1 adults who watch every week have nothing for short season 5 and then be immediately cancelled after 3 episodes of season 5 if gets renewed.

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  27. Some user on this site dropping hints that Emily not really David daughter load BS if is true maybe Emily Throne is Emily Throne deluded herself into thinking she was Amanda it b so stupid worse then bring David back .

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  28. Brilliant revenge I might add even if it your.

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  29. I was brilliant review of revenge burn anyway if was you that wrote it.

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  30. Lol You know it girl! Conrad is too much of a troll to die that easily. Then, again it's the last season so...

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  31. Well it is the site's, but I wrote it. Does it have to be mutually exclusive? :P
    Different people review different shows on SpoilerTV.

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  32. Thanks. Even if?

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  33. Thanks glad you enjoyed the review!
    Hahaha. God it would be awful if Amanda found that out. And I thought, because I watch too much tv also, building on your idea. Amanda finds out she isn't realted to David, then Conrad returns with "I am your father" (Star Wars trailer might have gotten to my head) then Amanda, learning she is a Grayson, joins the rest of the clan under ground.... Yeah that's not going to happen, I know. I'd be mad if it happened but I liked imagining it :P


    Totally agree with you that line was delivered brilliantly! Love Gabriel Mann.

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  34. I think she was just joking ;)

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  35. True, but they seemed pretty cozy at the end of the episode.

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  36. Thanks, glad you enjoyed. I think the show can live without Victoria, but not too long ;)

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  37. Thank you, we can't always agree ;)

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  38. You're welcome for the review!
    David can most definitely exit, and I don't want to watch Amanda loose it, but maybe it would be good!
    Jack was most definitely a jerk. I don't care if they do our don't at this point, just make up your damn minds. IT's getting a tad ridiculous, and I do agree Nolan needs to give up on it. It's like he's a kid that wants mom and dad to get back together at all costs.


    I hadn't even thought about Mason's impeccable timing, and knowing exactly were she was, not like the airport was her usual hangout. Maybe he flew in from where ever he was and just saw her there?


    Tony leaves during the next episode, or he isn't in the episode? Because I think there's a difference.


    Haha! Victoria did take the wedding plan to a whole other level!!!

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  39. Thanks, and yeah I feel she became another person when she went back to being Amanda, and I think that's what they're going for. How her two personalities have a different take on live and revenge. What do you think?
    I don't think she meant anything about Jack being the strong one as much as she meant him being the good one, and her being the bad one.

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  40. I was on about how brilliant review did i suppose good things come does that wait revenge better end Emily and Jack getting together our ill be pissed of abc Sunil Nayer never watch anything from them again

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  41. Im starting think so to but i have feeling cancer will kill David that be stupid storyline since only just been back.

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  42. REvenge dont have no time to properly build up their coalition of the 'revenge on Amanda'. It need to get it done now. So the Death of Victoria was not only a way for her to get back at Amanda it was the way to forcibly get Louise and Margaux to team up really close.

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  43. I think that the opposite story line, finding Charlote is not the
    biological daughter makes more sense... and probably David dies, the
    show is very moral in this sense and he is dark. I guess Amanda won`;t
    have a happy ending either although she is just an anti-heroine

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  44. I agree on the Nolan comment, but it is a contrived plot device from the writers having the most popular character "root" for Jack/Emily. And seriously, IF she had wanted, grounding a plane, most likely Nolan's, would have been the easiest thing in the world for Emily.
    Truly.
    Tony exits next ep so no real need to remember his name..
    I am puzzled about Mason's impeccable timing!

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  45. True, I even asked myself during the episode, why every freakin character seems to have a private jet. It would make sens that it would be Nolan's, but then that would make Jack an even bigger jerk for not really talking to Nolan about leaving...

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  46. The Hamptons party scene was so great - Louise's attempt to stir things up when Nolan and Tony were talking to his boss was great, but even better was how effortlessly Nolan dealt with it...she didn't stand a chance at playing him. Oh and I loved that they were playing Djang Django's "Hail Bop" during that scene, too.



    As for the ending....what a way for Victoria to go out. She was one of the best villains on any show in recent years, and I'm going to miss her - but at least they sent her out with proper flair

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