12 TV Families Ranked From Worst To Best

11. The Graysons €“ Revenge

Somewhere, deep in the recesses of a shady Internal Affairs bureau I envisage a task force of highly-trained officers huddled around a white board bedecked with black-and-white photos of the Graysons, mulling over their investigation into the blatant corruption and incompetence in the Hamptons' division of the NYPD. As if framing the whiter-than-white David Clarke for their part in mass terrorism wasn't bad enough, every member of the Grayson family should be serving multiple life sentences for the murder, blackmail, money laundering and drug offences they routinely get involved in. If I received a pound coin every time the Graysons committed a crime I'd be as rich as them, yet their hold on the justice system goes so deep that no-one bothers to question them on the mysterious occurrences that happen so frequently around their home. I don't think many people would contest that the Graysons are a pretty awful group of people, but the thing that really gets me is that they're so tiresome and the idea of them possessing the cunning to pull off the crimes they supposedly have is far from believable. I'm really sick and tired of Charlotte's whining about her first world problems and I can't work out how the totally wooden and completely charmless Conrad Grayson inspired enough people elect him governor of New York, but perhaps the biggest head-scratcher is how on Earth Daniel Grayson, the college drop-out, former alcoholic and regular victim of his Mother and fiancée's shabbily worked out lies can suddenly grow enough business acumen to take the helm of a multi-billion dollar corporation overnight. Watching just one episode of Revenge is enough for the most casual viewer to see that the whole Grayson family is carried by Victoria. As far as her moral indiscretions go, she's probably the worst of all of them but I can't help having a soft spot for this Ice Queen. No doubt, Victoria is a self-interested gold-digging harpy who clearly prefers Daniel to her annoying rebellious daughter (who wouldn't?), but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty to preserve her lifestyle and is the only one who can see through Emily's girl next door façade, though she hasn't connected all the dots yet. One day, when their scheming finally lands her and the rest of her clan in jail or worse, Victoria might wonder how none of her children managed to inherit her brains or resourcefulness but gained all of Conrad's idiocy. Until then, the best thing to do would be to cut her losses and take her endless wealth somewhere safe from Emily Thorne's master plan before it's too late.