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Well, it sounds like it is going to wrap up all the loose ends as it finishes. At least, I’m hoping that’s what we will see.

Did anyone see the Instagram clip from The Affair set yesterday...showing Helen reading a statement over the phone...talking about “the women that came forward in the Vanity Fair article..” and mentions Noah. It sounds like there is going to be a “Me Too” storyline, perhaps picking up the old thread that Noah didn’t always seem to understand what “consent” meant with the women he was involved with ( including his wife.) (sorry...I don’t know how to add a link to the insta post!)

Is anyone still reading this thread? Just piping in to say...I’m currently rewatching (again) Seasons 12+...and finding I don’t hate the later episodes as much as I did when I was bingeing straight through. I mean...I’ve already seen the whole series, I know the last 3 seasons were SO completely different from the early, heyday years. But if you watch them outside from the show’s own shadow...still a lot of merit. Actually didn’t hate Pratt’s trip to Darfur. The Forrest Whittaker episodes were quite compelling. And....as someone who has always been a huge Abby Lockhart fan...I really can see why people hated the character. S12/13 she became so arrogant...I get the writers we’re heading for her character to do a 180 from the “woe is me” that plagued her in her nursing days...but what they gave her was really obnoxious. (Though...Maura still nails each performance, regardless. Amazingly...she can always rise above the script.)

I have thought the same thing about foreplay...and chalked up the lack of it to time. How many minutes in the scene can they devote to that? But really... enough of the “quickies!” As someone who admits to having quite a potty mouth...I think the writers really do overuse the word “f*ck.” As a noun, verb, adjective..the works! They need to be a little more strategic about the use of the word, it would have more effect if it weren’t used in every other sentence!

That line cracked me up...I say it to my elementary school students all the time!

I think Helen smiled, thinking, now that Vik knows Sierra is having his child...this will seal the deal he will for sure get treatment and get a little longer time to live. She now, dares to have hope. Also...Noah’s words to her were truly “the nicest thing he’d ever said to her.” That had to feel good...Helen’s been feeling horrible about a lot of things for a long time.

This is not new...actors leave for various reasons all the time. It is their work...and I think they move on into new projects a lot faster than viewers “let go” of their characters.

He was already very creepy in earlier episodes...isolating her at the PTSD conference to “practice”....isolating her again on the boat (and someone else mentioned...I think that was HIS boat, this was all premeditated, that explains the “packed lunch.”) Pouring her wine on the boat, getting her to drop her inhibitions. He was clearly living a double life, as we found out through his AA meeting with Cole. They wrote his shadiness very subtly, which I appreciated...but it was there, and I was not surprised by last nights turn of events...

I think that was Alison “rehearsing” how the evening was going to play out...what she planned to say...and what she hoped his reactions would be. She clearly thought he was a better man than he actually was...

And..he didn’t want Alison “bothering” him either (by telling his wife”, so...

Just watched....oh my! Heavy, heavy episode... I liked that twist that both parts were Alison’s perpective. Helen told her to “play a different character”...and that’s what we saw. Only, it didn’t end well... The last 20 minutes made me sick to my stomach...every action, every reaction...the ominous thunder booms...you knew what was coming. The final underwater shots...good grief...that will stay with me for a very long time. Sad to see Ruth Wilson go...but her character’s death will go down (at least for me) as a memorable one!

I have seen an interview from maybe 2 years ago with Maura by Larry King...it’s on YouTube. He asks her point blank if she is paid less than the men on The Affair...she answered “yes.” (but went on to say, she isn’t complaining because she feels incredibly lucky to get paid to do what she does for a living.)

We all really NEEDED Anton in this episode!!

Yup...just read this article. Now I am speechless. She really IS dead.... Happy Monday?

She talked to Athena about how she was setting up an account for Joanie to put the money from the Lobster Roll. It didn’t seem unusual at all at the time.

No. We still have 2 more episodes in S4. And we will get a S5 sometime in 2019!

Maybe I didn’t explain myself correctly...yes, I want the resolution to do right by the characters, and the viewers who have been eating this story up for 4 years....but my point being...they have a cast of actors who can really “pack a punch.” Write a great ending, and let them bring it to life. We all deserve that!?

Oh man...just watched in the app. Josh and Dominic’s acting...took my breath away. I hope whatever the writers have in store for the resolution of this story does justice to the actors.

He was in jail for 3 years. There should be about a 7 year time span from S1-S4, but the writers seemed to have shaved it down a bit in places. Joanie is now 6, but Trevor, who was 10 before Joanie was conceived...is not quite 15? Certain things don’t match up! I hate that!?

When they begin divorce proceedings, Trevor was 10, Stacey was 7 (Noah says this to Nina when he takes them after Helen’s DUI.) I think the writers fudged the timeline a bit here!

I searched back Sarah Treem’scrweets and found this

Interesting point. I mean...the way the script was written, for Helen to chastise Sierra on sleeping with married men...when she had JUST done the same, with Sierra...either we are supposed to believe Helen didn’t consider her tryst with Sierra cheating...or the scenes were shot out of order and someone lost track of what events came just before? Strange. Will be interesting to see if Vik or Helen fesses up to the other (before Sierra spills the beans! What a sicko!)

I am soooo interested to see where this heads...does Helen confess to Vik about her indiscretion with Sierra? Is that why she bolted out of the chamber...she sobered up enough to realize what she had just done?! It did seem really hypocritical. It made me wonder...I mean, I would call what she did with Sierra “cheating”....but are there some who think it isn’t??

I didn’t take the lack of “I love yous” between Helen and Vik as a sign of the love not being there. It was a heartbreaking scene, with as little dialogue as possible....sometimes, the less said, the better. Needless to say...him promising her he won’t die is just going to make his ultimate demise that much harder to bear for the viewers?

True...but Vik has texted that he had a work thing and wasn’t coming home on time anyway (or did I not read his text correctly? Wasn’t wearing my glasses!) That’s when Helen decided to go. I was actually glad to see her go do SOMETHING with another human being...she seems wound very tight, and has no friends. But yeah...a 9 to 5 would fix those problems too!?