‘Do Revenge’: All Those Epic & Jaw-Dropping Twists Explained

Drea seemingly has the cleanable life, 1 that she’s worked highly hard to maintain. She’s connected apical of the satellite going into her elder twelvemonth astatine a prestigious prep school, but her beingness falls isolated successful the clip it takes for a video to spell viral. A enactment portion she sent to her boyfriend, Max, leaks.

She’s convinced helium had thing to bash with it, but helium plays innocent. He claims helium got hacked. Drea punches him successful the flames successful beforehand of the full school. Suddenly, she is the queen bee nary more. She’s enactment connected behavioral probation and could suffer her assistance if thing other goes down with Max.

Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke arsenic Drea and Eleanor. (Netflix)

More than anything, Drea is aggravated astatine herself for letting her defender down. She decides to transmission each the rage she has into getting revenge.

That summer, Eleanor meets Drea astatine tennis camp. After overhearing immoderate gossip successful the bathroom, Eleanor tells Drea that Erica Norman leaked the video of her. Drea acts quickly, framing Erica and getting her kicked retired of the camp.

Later, Drea’s car won’t start, truthful Eleanor offers her a ride. Eleanor spills her guts to Drea. She reveals that erstwhile she was 13 years old, her full beingness fell apart. She knew she was queer but didn’t archer anyone until 1 peculiar miss came alone. Eleanor calls it the “single top infinitesimal of my life.” However, the miss told everyone that Eleanor tried to clasp her down and buss her. “She turned maine into this predator. No 1 would travel adjacent me. She destroyed me,” Eleanor says to Drea earlier revealing that the miss was Carissa Jones.

Once schoolhouse starts, Eleanor brings up an thought to Drea: doing each other’s revenge. Drea, acceptable for vengeance, happily agrees to this plan. First and foremost, Drea gives Eleanor a teen movie makeover.

Drea wants definitive impervious that Max is simply a hypocrite truthful she tin destruct him, truthful she has Eleanor wiggle her mode into Max’s interior circle. They effort to exposure Max by leaking his texts that uncover he’s sleeping with girls from each clique. Max finds a mode to rotation the concern successful his favor.

Drea snaps erstwhile she finds retired that she’s mislaid Yale, her imagination school. She’s not holding backmost anymore. She knows that Eleanor has to spell to the Admissions Party, a nighttime of “pure debauchery,” successful bid to get ungraded connected Max. Drea’s determination to destruct Max makes her hide Eleanor’s birthday. When Max and his friends propulsion Eleanor a astonishment party, Drea shows up and makes a scene.

Maya Hawke arsenic Eleanor. (Netflix)

When her car won’t start, Drea calls her mechanic and learns that idiosyncratic removed her spark plug the past clip she brought her car in. She has a feeling that Eleanor took it out. Drea begins to investigate, starting with Carissa. Carissa reveals that Eleanor was her archetypal girlfriend, but she was called Nora backmost then. Eleanor’s since had a chemoreceptor occupation and sanction change.

The biggest bombshell is that Drea started the rumor astir Eleanor each those years ago. Nora Cutler is “Nosy Nora” Cutler from time camp. Eleanor has been deceiving Drea this full time. Eleanor really orchestrated their archetypal meeting.

Eleanor admits that aft the ringing dinner, she was going to telephone disconnected her scheme. She felt similar Drea had changed. But aft the day party, she realized Drea hadn’t changed astatine all.

Drea returns location to find Eleanor waiting for her. Eleanor’s had the precocious manus the full time. In Drea’s ain words, “Narcissists are excessively focused connected themselves to recognize they’re being played.”

Eleanor reveals that the worst portion astir each of this is that Drea doesn’t adjacent retrieve what she did to her. Eleanor’s program is acold from over. She orders Drea to get backmost successful with her friends, spell to the Admissions Party, and get them each to bash insane things. When the videos get leaked, everything volition beryllium traced backmost to Drea. Drea and her friends volition beryllium destroyed. In bid to marque definite Drea complies, Eleanor threatens to bring Drea’s ma into this.

A freaked-out Drea is driving her car erstwhile Eleanor crashes into her. This needed to hap truthful Drea could get adjacent to her friends ago. Nothing similar a bully pity party.

The nighttime of the Admissions Party, Eleanor has a brooch with a hidden camera connected it for Drea. Drea twists the weapon she’s ever had successful Eleanor by revealing that “Nosy Nora” is Eleanor to their friends. An affectional Eleanor storms off, and Drea follows her. Drea apologizes. She knows that was a debased blow. Drea ends up smashing the brooch. “You mightiness beryllium the lone existent person I’ve ever had,” Drea confesses. She wishes she could instrumentality backmost starting the rumor. “I volition regret what I did to you forever,” Drea says.

Eleanor and Drea astatine the Admissions Party. (Netflix)

And here’s yet different twist. Max has overhead everything betwixt Drea and Eleanor. He went to find them aft going done Eleanor’s phone. Max admits that helium hates Drea. He was going to fto this hatred spell until helium saw the texts. Now helium threatens to “absolutely annihilate” them both. He accuses Drea of utilizing him and thinks nary 1 would person cared astir her if helium didn’t. Her Teen Vogue spotlight video was his breaking point.

“So I told you I loved you. I got you to marque that video. And past I sent it to the full school,” Max confesses to Drea successful beforehand of Eleanor. Max walks distant proudly. He thinks he’s won. Turns out, Eleanor has a abstracted recorder. She’s made “revenge mommy” Drea proud.

They determine to instrumentality down Max erstwhile and for each — together. They play the video successful beforehand of everyone astatine the party. Everyone turns connected Max. He ends up expelled, and Drea’s offered his spot astatine Yale. After everything that’s happened, Drea knows Yale isn’t the end-all-be-all. She’s got what she truly needed: a existent friend. She rides disconnected into the prima with Eleanor.