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- The Terminal List. Amazon Prime Video's war series The Terminal List stars Chris Pratt as Lieutenant Commander James Reece, a US Navy Seal who looking to uncover a conspiracy.
- How to Get Away With Murder. How to Get Away With Murder stars Viola Davis as Annalise Keating, an attorney and law professor who, along with a group of her students, gets caught up in a murder investigation.
- Killing Eve. Killing Eve is a great revenge-themed show that aired on BBC America from 2018 to 2022. The show was co-written and produced by the brilliant Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who's recently been making a name for herself as a potential Indiana Jones replacement.
- Dexter. Through eight seasons and 96 episodes, the Showtime mystery/drama series Dexter has become a dependable fan favorite. Michael C. Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a forensic scientist for the Miami Metro Police Department who secretly leads a double life.
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- Tony Avenges Tracee (The Sopranos) In The Sopranos season 4, episode 9, “Whoever Did This,” Tony kills the loudmouthed gangster Ralphie because he suspects that Ralphie burned down a barn and killed his racehorse.
- Lumen’s Vengeance On Jordan Chase (Dexter) The best villain in Dexter’s history got into the killer’s head, proving that he was not all that different from the serial killers he hunted.
- Omar’s Revenge On The Barksdale Organisation (The Wire) As a complex, morally ambiguous series, The Wire featured few moments of outright crowd-pleasing action.
- Moon Dong-eun Gets Back At Her Tormentors (The Glory) While Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle featured some great revenge plots, vengeance wasn’t the primary theme of either series.
Jun 13, 2022 · The landscape of TV shows about revenge offers a diverse selection of gripping narratives, each demonstrating exceptional storytelling skills. From thrilling heists and meticulously planned retributions to characters chasing after their tormentors, these series draw in viewers with their high stakes, complex characters, and emotionally charged ...
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- La Doña
- The Glory
- Blood Ties/Las Villamizar
- My Name
- Alias
- Reborn Rich
- The Punisher
- Bright-Eyed Revenge
- Her Mother’s Killer
ABC’s highly rated and aptly named series, Revenge, ran for 4 seasons and featured Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Gabriel Mann, and Josh Bowman. Amanda Clarke (VanCamp) has had a difficult life ever since her father, David, was framed for terrorism and killed by the Graysons, a powerful family in the Hamptons. Upon her release from juvie, she inhe...
Based on the novel of Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, Doña Bárbara, La Doñais a two-season Mexican-American series produced by Telemundo. It follows the story of a powerful and ruthless businesswoman, Altagracia Sandoval (Aracely Arámbula), who seeks to bring down The Monkeys gang. When she was a young girl, the teenage gang members, all from pr...
The ongoing global buzz around Netflix’s chilling K-drama The Glory certainly warrants a place on this list. Written by Kim Eun-sook, the mastermind behind Descendants of the Sun, Mr. Sunshine, The King: Eternal Monarch, and Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, the story centers around Moon Dong-eun (megastar Song Hye-kyo), who exacts revenge on her...
Las Villamizar is an exciting and atypical Colombianperiod drama set in Spanish-occupied New Granada, produced by Caracol TV and streaming on Netflix. It follows the dangerous missions of three high-society sisters and spies, Carolina (Shany Nadan), Leonor (Estefanía Piñeres), and Isabela (María José Vargas). Besides helping rebels fight the occupa...
My Nameis a violent Netflix South Korean miniseries created by Kim Va-da and Kim Jin-min, featuring Han So-hee as protagonist Yoon Ji-woo, Park Hee-soon as drug lord Choi Mu-jin, and Ahn Bo-hyun as police detective Jeon Pil-do. After witnessing a hooded attacker gun down her father, a gangster, 17-year-old Ji-woo joins his crime ring and becomes it...
Created by J.J. Abrams, Aliasis a suspenseful espionage show that spans five seasons and features Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, Ron Rifkin as Arvin Sloane, Michael Vartan as Michael Vaughn, and Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin. It follows the story of Sydney, a grad student who is fooled into thinking she is part of a spy ring for the CIA’s black...
Sometimes, you have to wait until your next life to exact revenge—through reincarnation within your enemies’ family, to be exact. That is the case of Yoon Hyun-woo (the prolific Song Joong-ki) in the 2022 drama, Reborn Rich, directed by Jeong Dae-yun. After uncovering a tax evasion scheme for the Soonyang Group, loyal employee Hyun-woo is shot on a...
Marvel first introduced The Punisher character in the 1974 The Amazing Spider-Man #129, as an assassin hired by the Jackal to kill Spider-Man. Jon Bernthal (Shane in The Walking Dead) plays the titular lethal vigilante in this spin-off from Daredevil, the first Marvel Netflix series, over the course of two 13-episode seasons. It focuses on the PTSD...
Created by Franck Ollivier and starring Laëtitia Milot, Sophie Duez, and Benoit Michel, this suspenseful French crime series follows Olivia, a lawyer who infiltrates a mafia ring in Nice led by the powerful Chevalier clan. Her motives are not purely professional, though, as she suspects that the family leader, Etienne Chevalier, is the one behind t...
Netflix’s Her Mother’s Killer, formerly known as Ana’s Revenge, is a 60-episode Colombian soap opera created by Clara María Ochoa and produced by CMO Producciones. Carolina Gómez stars as political strategist and adviser Analía, who is dead set on bringing about the downfall of corrupt presidential candidate Guillermo León Mejía, the man responsibl...
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Sep 21, 2021 · It’s been 10 years since audiences first met Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) in her quest for revenge on the wealthy Grayson family, who she believed were responsible not only for her father going...
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Sep 28, 2012 · The 10 Best Revenge Plots In TV Shows. These arcs are best viewed with a cold dish.
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From Gone Girl, to Prime Video's new thriller, Wilderness, we uncover why revenge storylines are exploding onto our TV screens with a vengeance
