"Revenge" set notes: The screened porch we saw in the pilot season (filmed on location in North Carolina), not the Hamptons, is gone & there's a bump out that makes it impossible for charactures to walk all the way around the porch. They show the porch so often, & so much of the action happens on it, that they built part of it on a soundstage in California, surrounded by a blue screen. Here's how it looked when they shot that scene of Emily walking down the steps to the beach.
