I decided to watch this show purely on the strength of your recommendation, and I am happy to agree with everything everyone has said about it. There seems to be a boomlet on network TV to present as main characters, or important secondary characters, people who are deeply damaged. I don't know if that reflects a new maturity in mainstream entertainment, or a darkening cultural Zeitgeist.

My only peeve is that, once again, people have ready access to and can easily use an omniscient-seeming technology that enables them to learn one another's deepest darkest secrets, and manipulate communications, presentations, and data reports, without having to work hard at it. I confess I'm tired of the uber-tech thing, but Revenge is hardly along in using it.