America fell in love with Emily VanCamp in Everwood and fell even harder in Brothers and Sisters. This season, the Canadian actress took on a
very different role than the girl next door that we have all known her as. Emily takes on the role of revenge in a
modern take on the classic Alexandre Dumas Novel, The Count of the Monte Cristo as she plays the leading lady, Emily
Thorne a/k/a Amanda Clarke. Thorne is a
young orphaned heiress spending her summer in East Hamptons among the
fabulously wealthy and a world where nothing is what it seems. In flashbacks we watch Emily/Amanda learn that her convicted terrorist father was framed by the people he trusted most. She sets out on a mission of revenge for her now deceased father, set on destroying everyone who had a hand in the lie and anyone who gets in her way.
Many time young actresses fall on their face when trying to
get away from their typecast but VanCamp has obviously set herself apart as the
ratings remain positive week after week.
Fans of the show have come back every week for answers to questions
surrounding the first 5 minutes of the Pilot that flash-forward to the end of
the summer, when tragedy strikes. The
cast also includes that of Madeline Stowe (The Last of the Mohicans), Gabriel
Mann (The Bourne Trilogy), and Nick Wechsler (Roswell).
As a former Roswell and Everwood fan, I cannot begin to
express my excitement for this new series and have yet to be disappointed. Who doesn’t love a remake of a classic, mixed
with the drama of the rich and scandalous in an East Hamptons summer? It sounds like the recipe for Gold if you ask
me.
Im so glad that someone is writing a blog that actually knows what they are talking about! Keep em' coming!
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