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I like that, for as much of a sausage party as this show is, this is the second week in a row that Lisa got an awesome feminist/anti-sexism speech in a bar. <3 I was surprised Jay was able to get the upper hand in the fight with Terry and didn't end up getting shot or something. I hope that's the last we see of Terry. Joanna Going looks so young (she's 51) that sometimes it's hard to believe she could be Jay's mom. I hope they do a little more exploration of the relationship between her and Nate, too. Ryan's just a time bomb at this point, eh? I really like the mix of repentance and old bravado that he's rediscovering and I hope it's a slow rollout with that and he doesn't become the destroyer again overnight.

There are some sneak peeks for next week in the new spoiler thread, and one of them seems to shed some light on what happened this week (sex v. fingering)... And I'm guessing the clip is from Noah's POV based on Alison's hair/makeup/clothes. I thought it was interesting to learn Alison hasn't been working at the diner her whole life. Or if she has, she was also a nurse at one point. Couldn't tell if that hospital sequence was also supposed to maybe shed light on how the kid may have died (not an accident, but illness?) or just highlight a mother's love that she'll let a kid puke into her hands. Lol. Also--how are these people so indiscrete? In BOTH POVs. Even chaste kisses in the small town public library right out at in the open at a table rather than in the stacks is pushing it. Seems like Scotty's picking up on the Alison/Noah connection too.

Two sneak peeks from next week's episode @ SpoilerTV (The first peek sheds some light on the incident in Episode 3 between Noah and Alison, too. And it seems to be Noah's POV from her hair/clothes/makeup so...he didn't consider it sex apparently.) Love how hard future Alison is in the second clip. "That's beautiful, detective." Heh.

According to Matt Roush at TV Guide: Interesting. I'd like to see them take more chances with the format too and if it makes it to S2, hope they'll experiment with giving us Cole and/or Helen's POVs too as Sarah Treem once mentioned they might.

Yeah, I also did not think it was the full-on sex but just him getting....uh...handsy with her, prompting the key hand-washing scene. I mean, even if so, she did still come in about 30 seconds but... I like how much their stories differed because it points to someone being pretty damn unreliable in the future. (Very excited to see them get out of the police station and on the phone to... spouses? next week.) I'm a little curious though if this show has any hope of making sense though when they're through with season one. Because if they keep diverging the accounts AND make them both unreliable narrators in the future....I'm not sure that works. The audience might need SOME things that are incontrovertable facts and that string together in a logical timeline for there to be an actual storyline here and not just a mishmash of confusing memories and ambiguous open-ended questions. The cop's interrogations should be filling us in on the crime at least but so far they aren't (this episode talks about a wedding, last week was a party...but how do these things connect?) I hope some things will start to fall together/in place soon. Sarah Treem tweeted that next week is her favorite episode and that people should check out next week and then decide to check out if they still don't like/get it. So maybe some things start to take shape next week.

She looks like Katie Holmes crossed with Taryn Manning to me.

This show is really impressing me. I find all of the leads to be quite good (even though Nick Jonas hasn't done much acting as of yet), but Jonathan Tucker especially is killing it. His scenes with his mom are all just so gutwrenching. I hope the s1 finale is not him killing Terry, because no, that's not going to end well. Frank Grillo (who I used to watch on Guiding Light eons ago) and Matt Lauria are fantastic, too though. Matt's Ryan seems so easily like he could be a darker version of his Parenthood character which is kind of funny--right down to the name and everything (he was Ryan York on Parenthood). I hope we do get to see his paralyzed dad/parents in a future episode. And props to Kiele Sanchez, whose Lisa could've been so much less appealing in so many ways. She's doing a great job and the relationships she has with each of the men are interesting. I wish there were a few more female characters but I'm enjoying her and Joanna Going quite a bit.

Wigless Annalise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bewigged Annalise. It's remarkable how different VD plays those two sides of her (and how much more compelling she is in all her natural glory.)

How Sydney did not throw a complete tantrum over being introduced to Chris....I have no idea. The girl's old enough and smart enough to know what's up when "Mom's work friend" suddenly comes around, especially since Mom's never had any friends before. That rung really false to me. And I'm still not happy with the fact that Joel isn't TALKING about anything regarding his marriage and really hasn't for a season and a half. I don't remember him being so emotionally closed off in seasons 1-3 when the job stresses and Julia neuroses were a lot more intense, so why suddenly is he so repressed? Bah. It's a good thing Dax Sheppard is actually such a good actor, because man, Crosby is not garnering any sympathy from me. Zeke's line about it going so fast was pretty priceless, though. I had the feels. I was surprised that they let both Jasmine AND Zeke express their concern about him in such an ominous foreboding way though. Guys having a midlife crisis, but...other than potentially having another motorcycle crash, what do they actually think he's gonna do? If that's the writers' way of foreshadowing some doom coming to someone other than Zeke...it seems odd they'd tip their hand to that extent. Count me in as another who missed neither Hank nor Sarah (and next week's Ruby problems can take several seats, too.)

I'm from Rhode Island and though I don't really have the accent (unless I'm tired...then sometimes I drop my Rs and add them in weird places), I think we sound closer to Jersey-ites and Yonkers/Bronx, NY-ians than the Bostonites. Kat does not have a RI accent at all that I can hear. Not even one she's trying to cover up. She sounds like a typical California valley/sorority girl IMO. For season three--I wouldn't mind a whole new cast, maybe except for Capt. Lee. Even Eddie got on my nerves with his love of stirring up drama and bitching about the slide and Ben with his prima donna-ness. A new non-Caribbean location might be fun too--I'm sure people charter yachts in Hawaii, right?

One thing that I thought was funny is that on one of the Abby's Studio Rescue shows, there was a family owned dance studio with a girl who was maybe 15 or 16 that was their star pupil and they didn't want to let her go somewhere (Arizona maybe? cross-country?) to do actual training at some prestigious ballet academy. Maddie and the other girls are not that much younger than this one--if they're so amazing, why aren't they being accepted into similar training programs? Surely, Abby doesn't think her dance studio is the same type of environment. If she REALLY wanted what was best for Maddie, I'd think she'd be pushing Melissa to get her in one of those joints.

Related, I find it surprising that Pacey is the OLDEST of the four Lockhart boys. I just googled and in reality, Joshua Jackson's 36, the second oldest after Michael Godere (Caleb) who's 38, but it still surprises me somehow! Colin O'Donnell (Scotty) is 32 and Danny Fischer (Hal) is 30, FYI. I think both Colin and Michael look older than him though.

There are some rumors out there (and a Change petition protesting it) that Kim of Queens was cancelled. Not totally surprising, given the way they've been airing double episodes lately to blast them out, but what a shame. I found Kim to be very inspiring and motivational to the girls. Nothing at all like Dance Moms. She was more about them finding themselves than putting pageant shenanigans first. I watched the finale online and it was pretty good, though I did suspect some producer shenanigans with the pageant similar to DM. As if it were actually not a regional/national circuit pageant but an "invitational." The results were very convenient to the show's stars and the competition didn't seem all that impressive. You can watch it here on the Lifetime website.

This indeed. I hope some sort of twist comes to Noah's side of the story--perhaps, especially, in his interrogation scenes, which are so straightforward in contrast to the caginess of Alison's--because the interest level for his segment is so much lower for me. It's rather Gone Girl-ish in that respect, I suppose; I could believe that potentially Alison even killed Cole. She seems far more unreliable/dishonest in future than Noah who just seems...befuddled so far? And nothing's given me a hint yet that he could be pulling off a deception. The drugs-for-fish thing is still making me wonder, too. That would be such an obvious (too obvious?) conclusion given what we saw--yet Scotty told Cole at the ranch that he was flirting up Lolita, because they're hurting for money. I wouldn't think they'd be hurting for it if they're dealing drugs on the side. And given that Ali took the cooler to train station/Caleb--he was in on it. So it's not just a Cole/Alison thing. But also--why would they be buying fish as a pretense anyway? For what? They don't own a restaurant. Is it just personal fish-buying from a commercial fisherman? Odd. And not a great cover story.

I also thought it had to be a different party (in the future) that the detective and Allison were talking about. Because it doesn't make sense that he needs to know how she got home from a random party where nothing eventful happened years before her (husband?) got killed. And yeah, if she's driving back to the city---that's NYC. I think they just juxtaposed it with the flashbacks because it seemed convenient but the effect was more confusing than ironic or whatever they were going for. The whole idea that the investigations are years ahead is very intriguing and unexpected to me. It sort of indicates that the affair lasted several years--but probably only during the summers? Which is...odd. Also--I think it's interesting that future Noah is dressed super schlumpy in jeans and a hoodie and future Allison is more sophisticate and upscale. It certainly seems to be hinting at some sort of class reversal for the two as well. That's a great point that they probably should (or at the very least Helen) be aware of Allison if they've been summering there every year. Because what about last year when the kid died? If he was swimming, that indicates it was summer, they would've been out there, and everyone on the island, even Helen's ma, knows about it. Oh wait, maybe not. One of the conversations between Noah and...Martin? Yeah, Martin, indicated that maybe they didn't go the previous summer because Martin was very happy then. Hmm.

Watching this second episode, I found myself tuning out a bit on Noah's boring life because I just wanted to get to Alison's section. Her life in the past AND her life in the future both offer more interesting questions to solve. Also--if Noah really thought that was some kind of nonconsensual situation with Alison & Cole (his "Are you alright?"), that really makes him the creepiest creeper for jerking off to it in the shower. Shallowly I wish he were more attractive. I just don't care to see him making out with anyone. I'm such a Joshua Jackson fan that my mind is rejecting the possibility that he could be a bad guy in this and I do think Ali's version portrays him rather sympathetically for the most part. So I'm not sure what is up with the fish dropoff. Drugs seem so seedy for the Lockharts! Lol. Despite their sketchy sexual/personal proclivities. I'm also still so intrigued by future Alison. At least we've learned that Bailey is her maiden name anyway. The interrogative focus on specific nights and parties in the past is a little odd, considering the death has to happen several years in the future (unless the detective's suddenly investigating a cold case for some reason?). I didn't really get the point of showing Alison walking down that road where presumably the guy is killed either. False tension? Just to show it's easy to get run down there? Still think Cole's the one who dies, but Bruce and Scotty aren't bad alternate choices.

I'm not feeling Viola either. I wish she wasn't so...dour? And the only times she's not is when she's turning on the too-vulnerable-to-believe emoting with Nate or with Wes or Sam to manipulate them. And the structure is just a mess. They could so do without all those unnecessary flashbacks. I keep waiting for them to give Paris Gellar something to do besides snap at the kids and look moonily at Sam. Bah. It's nowhere near as much fun as Scandal unfortunately.

I quite enjoyed it and wanted more. I'd read the script so was spoiled for the ending but wondered how it resonated for people who went in cold. Because on page it seemed like a very blatant arrow pointing to an unreliable narrator, but on film...there were other possibly more honest answers. I think often Rashomon-style narratives can be very repetitive by nature because you're treading the same ground multiple times, but I did feel they differentiated enough and really though about the ways memory and tricks of it, influence your recounting of a story. That's often missing from these kind of pieces, even though it shouldn't be. Personally, I'm a huge Josh Jackson fan, too, so I'm really hopeful this will give him some good material. I like the sharp edge to his character.

Ha ha, me too. I was intrigued for the JJ, but it seems like they really have something promising here. Lots of TV critics have been tweeting about how "next level" good the show is, especially Ruth Wilson (who oddly looks a lot like a grown up Joey Potter in some of those posters. LOL.) If Homeland's back on its game, this will be a nice one-two punch from Showtime on Sunday nights.

I'm actually really surprised they haven't tried a reality show/drama hybrid yet where the plot/characters' actions are crowd-sourced and voted on weekly and stuff. I wonder when we'll hear about a possible pickup. An article this morning suggested it could possibly start airing/streaming again in fall of 2015 if they find a home soon.

I'm bummed Tiffani didn't win just because we go to Sweet Cheeks all the time, and it's AMAZING. (Seems particularly cruel to give a "meat slinger" a vegetarian main challenge though.) I thought Rob Zombie was a jerk. And no one showed nearly enough love for her mini-biscuits. The ones at the restaurant, which are enormous at about 3 or 4 x the size of those, really are the best biscuits in the world.

I was surprised Captain Lee didn't IMMEDIATELY apologize the minute Dean told him about the blanket. He just said quietly "I'll look into that." but it seemed that more was needed there. I was also surprised Eddie wasn't a bit more alarmed/taking it more seriously that Jennice said Kelley kissed her with a look of disgust. That's some grounds for sexual harassment in any other workplace. Then I remembered it's all scripted anyway. Lol. It's amusing to me though that they're going to have her be turned off by him suddenly and not all into the boat soulmates fantasy romance.

Oh whoops! That wasn't Kerri? I even thought it sounded like her!! Ah well. Less interested in Max's mom now!! (heh.) Who do we think is going to end up attending that academy where David's teaching next year? Maybe he gets a tuition discount and all their kids will go there and we can get rid of Bird and the bookie guy whose name I still don't know and maybe even less of Gabe.

I love that Max's mom is Kerri Green (of Lucas, Goonies and other '80s movies fame)! But I, too, thought he had a bad relationship with his parents, which is why he was basically able to move in with the family. This was actually the most cohesive episode of the season because they were forced to only deal with one storyline. Perhaps they should've done more of that early on.

Who's excited for this one? Starts October 12 on Showtime Showtime's description: At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, THE AFFAIR explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah (Dominic West) is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married [to MAURA TIERNEY], but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison (Ruth Wilson) is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage [to JOSHUA JACKSON] back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island. The pilot script was...unpredictable and it could be a very intriguing show.