Surprise! Revenge's Big Reveal & Our Hopes for the Series Finale

Should Amanda Clarke live or die? We have a few thoughts.

By Lauren Piester May 04, 2015 3:40 AMTags
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Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! Don't read on if you haven't seen the latest episode of Revenge, although we doubt there's a single one of you who didn't see this one coming:

Victoria Grayson is most definitely not dead.

We should have known, given the fact that this woman is like the Nokia phone of disgraced socialites, but we admit that we were fooled there for a week or two. While that twist was easily call-able, the episode's final bombshell was not: Just as it looked like Ben had caught the very alive Victoria redhanded , he seized up after having been stabbed in the back (literally!) by Courtney Love.

"Never go to New Jersey on business," the assassin with the amazing name of White Gold said as Ben fell to the floor. Then, she told a terrified Victoria to "shhh."

So that was weird.

It was also very unfortunate, given the fact that Ben was about to be the only person who knew for absolute sure that Victoria had faked her death, and the only person who could do anything about the fact that that meant Amanda was being wrongly imprisoned. Sure, Louise has her suspicions, but she's just about as trustworthy as Amanda right now in the eyes of most people.  

Now here's our big question: Will Amanda Clarke get a happy ending in the series finale?

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We've been assuming that she will, just because we assume that of most main characters leading up to most series finales, but we're beginning to really wonder if it's possible at this point. It's also unclear if she even should get a happy ending. Sure, this quest started out with noble intentions, but it got pretty muddy along the way as more and more innocent people got involved.

The finale's title is "Two Graves," which is clearly a reference to the Confucius quote that opened the pilot: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." We'd be surprised if the title were not also taken literally in the finale, with at least two people meeting their ends along with the series, and it makes perfect poetic sense for it to be Amanda and Victoria after the biggest, revenge-iest showdown this show has ever seen.

While our hearts balk at the idea of Jack and Amanda not ending up together (due to her being dead), we also just kind of want Jack to escape back to Los Angeles and start his life over without all of this nonsense. We also want Nolan to go back to being his fabulous self with more brightly colored pants and a lot less murder, while Margaux's magazine quietly downsizes due to the fact that she's no longer involved in any of their biggest stories and Louise goes we-don't-care-where, as long as it's not here.

Another thing we'd be totally OK with is Amanda pulling a Dark Knight Rises, except instead of Michael Caine, it's Jack, and instead of just watching her from a distance, he runs to her, and they live happily ever after. We'd be happy with that too. 

Revenge's series finale airs next Sunday at 10 p.m. on ABC. 

What are your hopes for the series finale? And what do you think will actually end up happening? Share your thoughts in the comments! 

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