Goodbye Revenge and thanks for all the confusion

I read last week that the latest season of the TV show Revenge will be it's last.

Okay, you've had your fun...

While I'm probably in the minority here, I for one am glad it's Revenging no more...

Credit where credit is due, at the start Revenge was more captivating and addictive than a naked Scarlett Johansen selling crack cocaine during a commercial break. I mean who wouldn't be rooting for Emily as she used her sneaky ninja training and vast finances to bring down some incredibly rich bastards who deserved to be toppled from their platinum clad ivory towers. They pinned the blame and ultimately killed her father so episode by episode we relished as she crossed names and faces off her vendetta list through social manipulation and engineering, financial disruption and just all round bad assery.

Goodbye you smooth bastard

Soon though, it started to get a little off track more and more each episode. Like the writers ran out of story and started checking out nearby straw packages for something to grasp at:

- Her suspected terrorist dad with a fascination with infinity is actually alive all along? Yippee! So he wasn't killed in jail after all! No he was with some Scottish Warlord who lasts all of about three episodes. And there was that mysterious corporation storyline where they were behind everything. Luckily Emily killed the guy she thought killed her dad then and investigated the fake dungeon where he said he was instead of actually mentioning the truth, phew! So he kills Conrad but shacks up with Victoria and couldn't see Emily was his own daughter thinking that the dead stripper fill in was actually his pride and joy. Wait, he has some incurable disease? Who would have seen that coming?

- Jack's Dad dies, he hangs around. Jack's idiot younger brother dies, he still hangs around. The woman Jack thinks is Emily who isn't Emily at all but is the mother of his baby dies too. He hooks up with Margaux who's as mad a cut snake and gets his heart steamrolled when the real Emily hooks up with everyone except for him. He becomes a cop and his best mate hooks up with Emily. Something tells me he should have taken the nearest boat and got the hell out Dodge some time ago.

- Emily loves Aiden, he becomes a statue. She hooks up with Ben, he gets taken out by an assassin. Her Kung Fu master Takeda who she shares a tough love relationship with, killed. Even the people she pretends to love end up eating bullets (Daniel.) Seriously Nolan, run while you can..

-Speaking of Nolan, he's had his heart crushed more times than Conrad Grayson has lusted over his attractive staff. When he's not creating absolute chaos on the Internets, he's stuffing up Emily's plans by falling for completely the wrong person. While he obviously enjoys his riches, sex life, running amok online and helping to ruin the lives of others, he should have realized by the end of Season One that business and pleasure never mix well...

Your penis is ruining all of the big plans!

-The highly trained, highly motivated and supremely lethal Aiden is killed by a cup of tea. Seriously.

-As soon as you remove one bad guy from the picture, another one immediately pops up dragging the show out even longer than it should be. First it's Daniel's asshole ex roommate then there's this strange corporation then the lunatic girl's manipulative mother appears alongside her controlling brother and hey look, Margaux has a useless brother and an even worse dad just showed. We'll add them to the female assassin, corrupt prison officers, child protection agencies, bought judges, world famous hacker, daughter of Takeda, local waterside thugs, bastard blogger, fake FBI agent, crooked cops, Scottish Warmonger, painters, journalists and pretty much the last person you'd least expect when the enemy before was dismissed.

- Just when you think Victoria Grayson is dead, she bounces back more than the Richmond Tigers come finals series time. Although how she and Conrad Grayson have managed the self control to not stab each other constantly through the episodes is anyone's guess. No wonder Charlotte wound up on some pretty serious drugs..

- And in closing, wardrobe has been into the chardonnay again...