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  1. I am a Joshua Jackson fan and I am really pleased to hear your reaction. I don’t like Cole either and it shows Josh is doing a great job.
  2. Sarah Treem gives the answer here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rV5uOBlCrh8
  3. I believe Sarah Treem said she'd deliberately cast Maura and Joshua because they are so likeable and it would make people feel more conflicted over the affair. Surely the whole point is that no one is good or bad in this series, they're all just human, complex and fallible.
  4. Alison certainly changes her mind a lot too. I wondered about the name Bailey; was it chosen because Alison bails on things? So far she's bailed on her marriage, her career, her desire to live in New York - what next? Noah? Joanie? It has become a soapy melodrama but it's still a weird mix of great scenes with great characterisation and occasional terrific writing thrown in amongst all the soap and bad/inconsistent stuff. I still can't decide what to make of it all.
  5. That was a lot better than the last 2 episodes, losing the histrionics of episode 9 and the mismatched nature of 10. Max's scene with Noah was excellent, Dominic and Josh are fantastic actors. In fact, what a cast. Alison/Cole scenes always work better for me than Luisa/Cole. I hope them buying the restaurant together and sharing a child (if that's the case) means a lot more of those in season 3. He can practice on me anytime.
  6. This week's episode exemplified why I have a love/hate relationship with the show and this article really articulates it http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a32293/the-cleverly-seductive-the-affair/. Before S1 I was looking forward to a thoughtful, nuanced and emotionally conflicting series. We get that - some of the time. Then it becomes melodramtic and soapy, which I also usually love in a different way. I was gripped by this episode but also got annoyed with it, then forgave it by excusing everything on being someone's point of view and therefore just the way it felt to them or how they were remembering it. I'm not sure if I like the show or not but I know I can't stop watching it. Very clever plan on the part of the writers.
  7. The focus being on the destructive, negative aspects of their story does make it difficult, for me at least, to get what they see in each other. We are shown the doubts, the insecurities, the perceived slights and selfish behaviour. Not so much the things which make them connect (beyond sex and their shared attraction to darkness). Not saying that means they are not in love, just that side of things is not shown as much and personally I am not feeling it. Subjective, definitely, but my being unable to perceive sexual chemistry between the two in the first season (the giddy, falling in love season) hasn't helped now we are in the downward spiral phase. I just have to take it on faith they are in love and possibly right for each other. And yes, it probably does make it less satisfying and harder to view the show and the relationship as the way Treem probably intended it to come across. It's still fascinating though.
  8. Those were my exact thoughts too.
  9. It does seem the writers are deliberately making Noah unlikeable in every POV, even his own and Alison's. Sarah Treem did say that he has a lot of growing up to do but it does make it hard to see why Alison is so drawn to him. It would have made more sense to me if she had decided she needed to be on her own for quite a while than to hitch her star to this seemingly selfish and self-centred man with all his baggage. I get that they were in lust and that they are now into the learning about each other stage but I'm still wondering what is the big attraction he has for Alison that she would be agreeing to marry him already and declaring that she loves him. He doesn't appear to be a source of emotional support. Does he just represent a lifestyle she wants for herself? The depiction of the fallout from the marriage break ups is something which I am enjoying immensely, it's very well done.
  10. I signed up because I had to say I agree wholeheartedly with everything taragel and globug said in their posts. It is definitely not the fact that they are adulterers which makes me dislike the Noah/Alison pairing, I just have not seen anything on screen so far which justifies the application of the term soulmates. The show does many things brilliantly but convincing me of an undeniable connection between these two has not been one of them.
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