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Loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo—but more akin to Dallas and Dynasty and heavily influenced by the techno look and feel of Gossip Girl—Revenge is one of this year’s surprise hits. When a seemingly sweet young woman who calls herself Emily Thorne (played by Emily VanCamp)—the name is fake and she is virtually unrecognizable from her childhood days—moves back into the childhood home in the Hamptons she shared with her father, it’s payback time for the former close friends and neighbors who sold her dad out for a truly heinous crime that he didn’t commit. Her primary target is the beautiful, bitchy doyenne Victoria Grayson, played to evil perfection by Madeleine Stowe. Our advice: Don’t go near the water.