Do Revenge follows teenagers Drea (Camila Mendes) and Eleanor (Maya Hawke) as they navigate the wary waters of high school fuelled by a thirst for vengeance.
When popular girl Drea’s reputation is smeared by a leaked sex tape by her boyfriend Max, the dethroned queen bee teams up with the new student Eleanor. Driven by seething anger at being wronged by their partners, Drea and Eleanor decide to swap vendettas, leading to new friendships, chaos, hilarity, and betrayals.
The 2022 Netflix dark comedy is directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and stars Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Austin Abrams, Ava Capri, Rish Shah, Talia Ryder, and Alisha Boe.
Do Revenge Story Summary
Drea Torres (Camila Mendes) is the epitome of the center of attention; when her best friend Tara (Alisha Boe) throws a party to commemorate her Teen Vogue’s “the next-gen 100” mention, Drea shines as the queen bee of Rosehill High School with her popular boyfriend and clique, a drone of jealous girls attesting to her popularity, and a stellar path carved towards Yale.
Facing a summer of separation, Drea’s boyfriend Max Broussard (Austin Abrams) goads her into sending a risqué video to help him fight his loneliness all summer. However, Drea’s picture-perfect life is rudely interrupted when she returns to school to find the explicit video leaked publicly.
Confronting Max, who is insistent that his Snapchat was hacked, an inflamed Drea punches him in front of the whole school. Drea subsequently faces the Headmaster (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who puts her on behavioural probation with mandatory community service. The Headmaster explains how future altercations could revoke her scholarship and advises her to channel her anger.
At tennis camp, Drea meets dowdy and quiet girl Eleanor (Maya Hawke). After overhearing a gossipy conversation, Eleanor confides in Drea that Erica Norman (Sophie Turner) was responsible for leaking the video. Drea consequently frames Erica in a planted cocaine bust to get even.
When Drea’s car breaks down, Eleanor offers her a ride, to which Drea reluctantly agrees. Eleanor reveals that she will be transferring to Rosehill, and relays her story of being unfairly outed by Carissa Jones (Ava Capri), who subsequently branded her as a predator. Eleanor and Drea bond over their shared miseries and injustices.
When school reopens, Drea’s clique gives her the cold shoulder because of her altercation with Max. To make matters worse, Max has started dating her best friend, Tara. Eleanor attends her first day at Rosehill where she befriends Gabbi (Talia Ryder) and warily crosses paths with her wrongdoer Carissa.
The school assembly takes a turn when Max, also senior class president, publicly calls out Drea in his public apology speech and starts a ridiculous club called “The Cis Hetero Men Championing Female-Identifying Student League”.
Enraged and humiliated, Drea rushes to the washroom, screaming in frustration. When Eleanor joins a distraught Drea, the two decide to team up and “do” each other’s revenge. Exploiting Eleanor’s new girl-unpopularity in the school, Drea decides to give Eleanor a makeover to help her get in with her popular ex-clique and Max.
Eleanor makes a brand-new entry to school in her “high-status” makeover, instantly catching Max’s attention and receiving an invite to his party. Meanwhile, Drea chooses the Carissa-run school farm as community service to further Eleanor’s revenge. She meets Russ (Rish Shah) at the school farm and becomes suspicious of Carissa’s well-guarded greenhouse.
At Max’s party, Eleanor sneaks into his room to snoop through his phone and successfully finds Snapchats and messages from half the girls in the school, implicating his unfaithfulness to Tara. Sparks fly between Eleanor and Gabbi, and Eleanor realizes Gabbi is Max’s sister.
Drea sneakily steals Carissa’s keys and breaks into the farm over the weekend with Eleanor. The two realize Carissa is growing drugs in the greenhouse and concoct a plan to implicate her in the winter senior ring ceremony.
On the day of the ceremony, Drea sneaks into the kitchen and adds Carissa’s mushrooms into the broth. Chaos ensues as the entire school is drugged and delirious, and combined with Drea’s anonymous tip to the Headmaster, Carissa’s drug farming is exposed and she is expelled. Eleanor also manages to get Max’s phone amidst the chaos, downloading his implicating chats and messages.
Max’s infamous new club leads to his profile being run in the school magazine, titled “The Accidental Feminist”, much to Drea’s indignation. Russ invites a distraught Drea to his secret art warehouse, where the two channel their anger by throwing paint blobs all over each other. The two kiss and begin a relationship.
With Carissa taken down, Drea and Eleanor plan to unmask Max’s unfaithfulness on Valentine’s Day. During Max’s speech, Eleanor sends a text blast revealing his misdemeanors and turning the whole school against him.
However, Max and his gang spin the tale in his favor by saying that Max and Tara are an open couple transcending heteronormative structures. The tide immediately turns as the whole school appreciates their nonconformity to heteronormativity and gets excited for their shot with Max.
Already disappointed with her botched plan, Drea’s day spirals when the Headmaster reveals that Yale has rejected her, rebuking her for her distractions. Feeling violated and vindictive, Drea is fuelled with increased hate and decides to go after everyone in a bid for vengeance.
Drea forces Eleanor to use her ivy league acceptance letter to attend the admissions party – a Rosehill senior tradition. Drea’s excessive fixation on revenge drives a wedge in her friendship with Eleanor when she disregards Eleanor’s birthday and forces her to do her bidding.
Feeling used by Drea, Eleanor enjoys an intimate celebration with Gabbi on her birthday and begins to enjoy her popularity when her clique throws her a surprise birthday.
When Drea finds out Eleanor has been ghosting her for her ex-clique, she furiously confronts Eleanor and turns on her. Realizing Eleanor was the reason for her car breaking down in tennis camp, Drea visits the rehab center to speak to Carissa. Carissa reveals that Eleanor is Nora Cutler, and it was Drea and not Carissa who started the rumor about Eleanor.
Do Revenge Ending Explained
Drea returns home to find Eleanor waiting for her. Eleanor reveals her true colors as she forces Drea to go to the admissions party with a forged acceptance letter and implicate herself publicly. When Drea refuses, Eleanor threatens to frame her mother in a drug bust and reveals she has told Russ about Drea’s involvement in Carissa’s suspension.
Panicking, Drea calls Russ to explain her part but is rudely cut off when Eleanor crashes her car into Drea’s. Hospitalized, Drea wakes up to find an angry Russ who reminds her of all the evils she committed. Eleanor confesses she hit her with the car to help her wriggle her way back in with her clique.
A concerned Tara visits Drea, motivating her and apologizing for her coldness as the estranged best friends reconcile.
Do Drea and Eleanor reconcile?
On the day of the admissions party, Drea reluctantly re-joins her clique. Eleanor puts a camera on her brooch so that Drea can leak footage of her inciting the school to chaos, implicating herself.
Annoyed at Eleanor bossing her around, Drea reveals Eleanor’s interest in both Broussards and exposes her identity as Nora “Nosy” Cutler. Humiliated, Eleanor leaves the party and Drea goes after her. Tired of the ridicule and revenge wedged between them, Drea reveals she misses Eleanor’s friendship. Refusing further nastiness in their relationship, Drea breaks her brooch camera and offers to make amends with Eleanor.
However, Max appears on the scene, patronizingly scoffing at the two girls. Having extracted Eleanor’s phone amidst the chaos, Max gains knowledge of their vengeful machinations and holds it above their heads as he confesses to having leaked Drea’s sex tape in the heat of his enraged speech.
Left seething after Max’s humiliating confession, Drea’s anger soon turns to triumphant jubilation when Eleanor reveals she had a backup recorder on her, catching all of Max’s confession on tape. Eleanor plays Max’s confession publicly, exposing him to the entire school and finally completing their revenge plan.
The Headmaster informs Drea of Max’s expulsion from Rosehill effective immediately. Max’s expulsion opens up a seat at Yale, and the Headmaster offers to put in a good word for Drea. Drea and Eleanor make amends and reconcile, skipping graduation and driving away into the sunset.
Do Revenge is now streaming on Netflix.
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