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Well, betraying Helen wasn't some accident that happened to him. As a matter of fact, he thought about it first, remember after kissing and making out with Alison when she was ready to take it further he said to her I have to go at my own pace or on his terms something like that. So he thought about it for a while. Not only did Noah deceive his wife of 25 years and mother of his children.. he is a low down dirty USER! If he'd have done the right thing and told Helen, divorced her and then started seeing Alison ... he'd have had to give up that cushy life in the Park Slope brownstone where he worked at teaching as much or as little as he wanted to and had plenty of time to take a shot at writing a successful novel. He had no financial worries because Helen's family paid for the kids private school and probably other things too. Also, don't forget Helen is an only child destined to inherit Bruce and Margaret's Montauk pad and the money that goes with it. He wanted to hold on to all that AND indulge his fantasy of Alison the 31 year old waitress, try it out and see where it went. Noah was fine with deceiving Helen and wasting Alison's time. I recall when they were planning to move in together and he wanted Alison to hang around in that closet sized NYC apartment and wait a couple of years until Whitney was in college for him to broach the subject of splitting up with Helen. Alison wasn't having it and pushed back... I'm just pointing out all his impulses were to preserve his old life and all the advantages that went with it including Bruce's literary world contacts and risk as little as possible, selfish A-hole that he was. Sometimes I'm so blinded by hatred of users and liars that I have to remember the reason I've watched until the end is that Maura Tierney AND Dominic West's acting is next level! 😄

Well, I've made 50-11 posts all over this thread and the 6 previous(since I joined), stating Helen is the closest thing to a saint we have here on earth and Noah is trash---sarcasm--- and that I don't understand what more the dude could have possibly wanted, since he by far got the better deal, so I'll stop. keep it short😋 We will have to agree to disagree, because I remember that scene and ep and I also remember another early one of them having sex and Helen building Noah up about his legendary h_ _d _n He says something like legendary, where? and she replied right here in this bedroom. So I think with that kind of ego boosting an ill placed giggle can be forgiven. Also he could have gotten smitten w/ Alison, divorced Helen, THEN began seeing her. Deceiving your spouse of 25 years who bore you 4 children is lower than low and why Noah can do no right in my eyes.

You know what really registered with me as never before during Helen's speech to Noah at the Memory Motel? When she said if you'd have had an affair 50 years ago x, y, +z... and you certainly wouldn't have written an f'ing book about it! Damn. What if Helen is trying to forget? First, in the walk out of the canyon Noah says yes, I loved her(Alison), I was crazy about her, then that dweeb Sierra brought to the wedding goes on about the young tanned gorgeous waitstaff at the Lobster Roll and then there's always Noah's f'ing book!

Nah, I've been married a long time and do my fair share of smooching and have watched a ton of movies and TV dramas and I only ever thought about it during Noah and Alison's scenes.

I guess the door fixed itself. I always thought Alison and Cole 's love scenes seemed quite normal and natural. That scene in s4 ep10 after Alison's funeral were Cole is sitting at Gabriel's grave holding Alison's urn remembering the first love scene we saw of theirs, the one where she had the kids band-aid on her finger is a real tearjerker! 😢🤧😢 I hated Noah and Alison's love scenes. What was with all that super loud smooching and smacking? It sounded like tearing velcro apart again and again next to a microphone. Did anyone ever notice... or was it just me?

Whitney's accent is affected i.e. pretentious. I don't usually make fun of the way anyone speaks, but when I heard Whitney say she was only having her mother there for the sake of appearances and she said to Helen "do not make this about you!" all bets were off.

and that is why I didn't like Helen getting back with Noah. When I went looking for something I read some long s1 +2 threads and a few people hypothesized that Noah "went looking" because he didn't feel needed at home or Helen wore the pants in the relationship... some nonsense like that. So now that... he was in a bad financial position and could only afford to contribute x to Whitney's wedding but not pay for the the 20k tent and he probably didn't profit greatly from the movie as he was hoping to with his name being taken off of it and he no doubt lost his teaching job after the me too scandal and he's been out having loads of indiscriminate sex and who knows what state his sexual health is in Now Helen not making him feel needed and most of the money coming from her or her family is no longer an issue? I hate a user.

That about covers it! Of all the extraneous characters and unfinished story lines and themes dropped into the last few episodes out of nowhere like me too, climate change etc... the thing that bothered me the most was having characters act one way and then completely differently in an episode or two WTH? and the worst offense by miles was doing a total and complete rewrite of Cole's character. absolutely ridiculous.

Oh yes we did. We're supposed to believe grown Joanie knows nothing about how her mother died until E.J. the answer man pops onto the scene and tells her, but... she questioned the paramedics about how her father died and found out he was trying to get to his heart medications and would have survived had he been able to!!!🙄🙄🙄

Two points about E.J's. Epigenetics research: If in 30 years humanity is in such peril because the coasts are crumbling, seas are rising, food and fuel are scarce... Why would anyone who had any kind of scientific background like E.J. be researching Epigenetics? Even if it's not your chosen discipline, wouldn't any kind of scientist channel their energies into finding out how to ensure that there will be future generations? Talk about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic! Secondly, where would you find families with no trauma experienced by their ancestors to compare to? ... what about anyone who's father or grandfather fought in a war?

I know you asked for an epilogue, but I didn't want to make another thread for my crazy do over.

In my defense, I was psychically damaged by watching this season and lost my mind!

Alison's demise has happened and that can't be undone when we return after s4. We're going to need throw more money or control at J.J. though... whatever it takes to get Cole back! Cole, Athena and Noah press Lt. Jeffries and the authorities to investigate Alison's death further. 👮‍♂️They ask to have the evidence reviewed and assert that a mother who'd lost one child and drifted with no father and a frequently absent mother certainly wouldn't have committed suicide leaving her young daughter alone. ... and no, she didn't have untreated depression. All that would have been investigated and sorted out before Woodlawn allowed Alison to counsel vulnerable grieving patients who'd just lost a child. Cole and Luisa ended their relationship after Alison's funeral and his return from the trip he took Joanie on. They remain in the same house, the Lockheart ranch long enough to get Luisa her citizenship. The trip ended with a drop in at Nan's Inn with weekly "salon". Cole surfs, rests and recharges there and enters a December May relationship with Nan. Hey, if Noah can chase 24 year olds for several seasons... Cole goes out to California twice a year to be with Nan.✈️ The Lockhearts got their ranch back after Cole made a killing selling the Lobster Roll to the big east coast seafood chain. 💰 Cole raised Joanie there with Luisa for the first few years until she moved out. The mere fact that Joanie lives past her early years means the Grandpa Silas curse where no Lockheart issue survive is broken. Cole, Caleb and Hal all work on the ranch. Cole's brother Hal and his SIL who lost baby Hal go on to have more children.🤰🤰🤰 Oscar Hodges works at the ranch, 🐴🤠as does Martin once he's finished with school. Whitney goes into the Peace Corp!🚶‍♂️ 🥾💦🛶 🚶‍♂️🥾Stacy is still in school being 12 forever. Cherry can finally stop working and relax a bit, surrounded by her family and grand kids.👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👩‍👦 Still haunted by his father's and Alison's suicides (though he really suspects Ben murdered her), Cole begins to retreat into to himself. 👻 He reads Alison's journals which are among some of her possessions that Athena gave him and he learns all about EMDR. Cole steers his brother Caleb posing as a PTSD sufferer toward Ben in AA. Cole urges him to get Ben to be his sponsor and get him to talk about and eventually try the unconventional therapy. on him by saying nothing is helping with his symptoms. Unbeknownst to Ben, Caleb's palms 👐have been lightly coated with silicone and then dabbed with deadly tetradotoxin 🐡from an exotic puffer fish. 🤾‍♂️💀⚰️ After avenging Alison's death, Cole begins to gradually shake off his depression and feel like himself again. Poor Nan was killed in a freak welding accident while working on a huge metal art piece. He runs into Delphine at Nan's funeral and they begin seeing each other. They fall in love,👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 marry and settle in Montauk and have two boys and a girl.🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️ When Luisa moved on from the Lockheart ranch she opened her own restaurant in Montauk🍽️ 🍴and continued to be like a mother to Joanie. When Joanie was 19 or 20 she hit it off with and eventually moved in with Martin. They separate several times over the years though, as each each of them have bouts of mental illness and depression. Alison's Dad (who needed a new kidney and went to Ca. to have the procedure) and Vik ended up in the same hospital and some major mix up occurred where Vic went in for transplant surgery and received James 's pancreas, one of the first such successful surgeries ever! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️He now lives on cancer free with Helen and the Solomanders. They're raising Eddie together, of course. Helen has great success with Helen Butler Interiors and hardly has to actually do any work, as one of her many staff just bring materials lists by for her to sign off on. Occasionally she'll meet initially with an L.A. client if they're high profile enough. Descent bombed at the box office and abruptly ended both Sasha Man's and Noah Solloway's careers. No more sycophants in their 20's shoving phone numbers at either of them. Noah even lost his teaching position when the news surfaced he fraternized with the Principal and endangered the lives of children by provoking that walk out where an asthmatic student became separated from her inhaler. It all comes out during Janelle's run for the Board of Ed position when her opponents dig up dirt. Trevor and Athena meet by chance when he enrolls in a new age spiritual retreat for actors 🎩🎤📽️where she's a visiting guide/teacher. After she fixes up his "humors" she becomes like a mentor to him and they make plans to go into business together planning unconventional funerals for people when Trevor finishes school, in California... of course. Sascha is selling hanging inverted yoga chairs. He's in business with Margaret selling those, and sex toys. Priya and Abdul are involved too, as they import the fabric for the chairs. Margaret is doing it to pay for Bruce's care and to sure up the family fortune. Margaret and Bruce sold the Montauk house and moved to California to be near Helen. When The Affair wrap up is shown, Helen and Vic's happiness is starkly contrasted against Noah just getting by, all alone with his regrets over having blown up his life and left his family. Well not all alone, he's sharing an apartment with now divorced Max (the hedge fund guy) who also moved to L.A. after suffering major financial losses. Now they're two cranky old men both lamenting having screwed it up with perfect girl, Helen. When we see the future Vik and Helen are surrounded by their extended family and they're bouncing their grand babies (none of whom were sired by Colin or Furcat) on their knees.👨‍👧‍👧👩‍👧‍👧🤸‍♀️🧘‍♂️

THANK YOU! I didn't know whether to open that whole kettle of fish in case someone felt differently and then I began to ask myself... am I wrong? should I be outraged for this girl? I think in the 16 page document in the 2nd link you actually can read her job description IIRC Now, if she was Alison's stunt double for physical stuff i.e. things untrained people could get hurt doing, then sexytime double would be outrageous. For sex scenes, not so much. Unless I'm really missing something? I would hate to think R.W. quit in solidarity over that. I've never had the luxury to be able to quit working any time I saw or heard anything distasteful to me and most other people haven't either. Now, if the stunt double said I'd rather you not put sexytime double on the board for the whole production company to see, she should have not gotten push back. If she said such and then got fired for it then she could have a case. I guess I think and hope adults handle themselves well enough and are understanding enough to work that kind of thing out. We don't know how the conversation(s) went before they let her go saying her hair wasn't a good match, when the article said they wear wigs. That's the part that sounds like the production co. did something wrong, unless there's missing info.

You know while I don't regard Oscar as a good person like I do Helen, Cole and Vik... He kind of went down in The Affair history as a really vile character, but I have this theory that Cole, Alison and Oscar have a kind of closeness from growing up in the town together and I'll bet L.R. zoning squabble not withstanding, any one of them could call the other if they really were in a pinch and needed something. Was he gross to tell a relative newcomer like Noah he "had" Alison in high school: Yes Did he tell Cole about Alison's summer Iover: Yes but only after she repeated what Noa said that he'd called the cops. Noah didn't know he faked calling. That set the Lockheart boys after him, so that was a tit for tat thing. did he sell Gottlief the "that's our baby" info that could be seen as motive for Noah: Yes but the morning after Alison slept with Oscar he wanted to make her breakfast and go to a fall faire together... couple stuff. When Alison started to panic about not having her car he immediately tried to calm her down and said take my truck. When everyone was a little older and more settled and the coke business was in the rear view, it seemed Oscar and Cole were becoming friends! If Cole felt Oscar wouldn't keep his secret (sleeping w/ Alison while w/ Luisa) he never would have basically affirmed his suspicion. So while Oscar was a bad guy, he wasn't like... a bad guy.

I cannot know for certain, but I'd have been a lot more interested in watching that story play out than the future Joanie. grown up E.J. elder Ben stuff. When we last saw Cole and Luisa together even though their relationship was over (no doubt the second Cole said "she was my wife" at the funeral) Cole said something about getting Luisa her citizenship by filing the hardship papers that indicate she was needed as Joanie's legal guardian. He said they could stay married on paper. So maybe they did long enough to make that happen? It's the s4 ep 10 end of pt1. If I were Cole with a daughter and her mother Alison had disappeared for 6 months then reappeared then was murdered, and the father she'd known for the first 2 or was it 4 years meaning Noah dropped in and out of her life going to prison / to Paris / on a book tour.... if Luisa who no doubt loved Joanie wanted to stay in her life I'd do everything to make that happen. However the writers appeared to change his character completely in absentia so who knows? Because Treem+the team decided to show us all this other stuff and new characters this season we'll never know if Luisa saw her only on holidays or if they appeared to stay together, living separate lives... I'm guessing not, because It looked as though in the back to Montauk to plan the wedding ep that Luisa wasn't going to Vermont with them. I guess we'll never know. I think the writers this season actually forgot a few things that happened themselves! Like when Whitney says to Furcat at his apartment why did you hit me in Paris? In the Noah's me too scandal goes public so ep8? ... Did they forget Whitney and Furcat already discussed that at the Broad where Whitney went to Furcat's exhibit? _________________________________________________________________________________________ I copied that post over to this thread that people might not be seeing because they're not visiting the speculation thread now that the series is over. Tweet from poster accuses Treem of blocking people critical of the season. Treem's reply does not say I didn't do that... but instead said she's getting rid of people who are rude or trying to he hurtful. So that could be why many here have found a good deal they didn't care for about the season and yet Twitter has mostly positive feedback according to the poster above who brought it up. If Treem finds posts critical of the season hurtful and eliminates them it would look like mostly positive feedback on Twitter.

YW 😊 I'd go so far as to say I think it can reasonably be inferred everyone in the Solloway family knew the truth once Helen confessed. I doubt Stacy and Trevor would keep something so major a secret from Martin and Whitney... even though informing them wasn't shown on the series.

I think a lot of people who want Helen to take the blame (not you), forget that there was no guy in the road to hit until Alison pushed him into it. In one of the two views of the accident that killed Scotty we hear Alison saying I pushed him. In a very recent episode 9? Noah referenced the incident 4 times talking to Helen! One of them during the me too accusations. Something about being punished for a crime he didn't commit and not doing that again and 3 other mentions, which I thought was strange given the timing. People seem to forget that he took the blame for Helen AND Alison. Had everyone come forth and told the truth about their part in Scotty's death some responsibility would have been laid at Alison's feet. It would have been a factor.

In that same episode Diane12251 referenced Helen's parents heard her confession because she was telling Stacy and Trevor that she killed Scotty Lockheart. (The older two were away at school). Later in the same ep. at a bar in Montauk she thought she was going to confess to Alison who stopped her and said she already knew. Noah told you? asked Helen. Then Alison told Helen she'd pushed Scotty into the road because he tried to attack her where they were standing on the side of the road. Helen was saying we have to go tell Cherry (Scotty's mother). Alison said she would not go with her to Cherry's and that it would serve no purpose.

There IS an explaination for that. Originally posted by Stad15 in Speculation / Series as a whole

When Noah and Whitney went to Montauk to plan the wedding, they ran into Luisa at the L.R. and I thought she told Noah they'd divorced or were split up and Cole and Joanie were leaving for Vermont? He went to try and say goodbye to Joanie and found an empty house

I hate that she settled for Noah too. I just thought of something... Noah would likely be haunted by doubts about how he measured up to Vik. He'd wonder whether Helen would really have chosen him and gotten back with him if Vikram were still alive. Noah would have a turn experiencing the same kind of hurt and self doubt Helen described on the way out of the canyon. His own children shunned him because of what he'd done to the family and preferred to spend time with handsome young Vikram the doctor. I was kind of surprised in Vikram's recorded parting words to the Solomanders he said he'd been in their lives 8 years. That damned timeline again

there have been 23 motions filed on this case this was the most recent I found looks like one has to purchase this most recent document 12/ 20 /18 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6123631/30/alexander-v-possible-productions-inc/ Alexander v. Possible Productions Inc. Order of Automatic Referral to Mediation — Document #30 District Court, S.D. New York Docket Number: 1:17-cv-05532 Date Filed: December 20th, 2018 _____________________________________________________________________ Looks like it's a little over a year since Possible productions Inc filed a motion to Compel Arbitration and stay the action, or, in the alternative, to dismiss the complaint. https://pospislaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Alexander-v.-Possible-Productions-Inc..pdf UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------X ASHLYNN ALEXANDER, Plaintiff, 17 Civ. 5532 (DAB) MEMORANDUM & ORDER v. POSSIBLE PRODUCTIONS, INC., et al., Defendants. --------------------------------------------X DEBORAH A. BATTS, United States District Judge. On July 20, 2017, Plaintiff Ashlynn Alexander filed a Complaint against Defendants Possible Productions Inc. (“Possible”), Showtime Pictures Development Company (“Showtime”), and Travis Rehwaldt, asserting claims for sex discrimination under the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) (Count 3) and for retaliation under Title VII (Count 1), the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”) (Count 2), and NYCHRL (Count 4), stemming from her work as a body double on the television show The Affair. Defendants filed the instant Motion to compel the arbitration of Plaintiff’s claims or, in the alternative, to dismiss them. For the following reasons, the Court DENIES Defendants’ Motion to Compel Arbitration and DENIES their Motion to Dismiss. Case 1:17-cv-05532-DAB Document 24 Filed 10/04/18 Page 1 of 16 2 I.BACKGROUND A.Allegations Relevant to Employment Discrimination Plaintiff alleges that she was employed by Showtime and Possible from October 2013 to September 2015 as a body double for the character of Alison on the television show The Affair. (Compl. ¶ 36.) Rehwaldt was an assistant director on the show and was allegedly Plaintiff’s supervisor. (Id. ¶¶ 37-38.) At the end of filming each day, all cast and crew members received a call sheet, created by Rehwaldt, which listed each person’s role and a detailed schedule for the next day’s work. (Id. ¶ 39-40.) Generally, the call sheets listed Plaintiff’s role as “Alison Body Double.” (Id. ¶ 42.) Plaintiff alleges that on September 17, 2015, she received a call sheet (the “Call Sheet”) from Rehwaldt describing her role as, “Alison Sexytime Double.” (Id. ¶¶ 44-45.) Defendants have attached the purported Call Sheet to their Motion to Dismiss. (Declaration of Mary Eaton (“Eaton Decl.”) Ex. F.) That document lists Plaintiff’s name under a column entitled cast with her character listed as “Alison Double” in the column next to her name. Lower down on the same sheet in a section entitled “Instructions,” the Call Sheet says: “MAKEUP/HAIR: Alison sexy time Double. Sc. B: Noah’s Jacket.” (Id.) Plaintiff alleges that she felt humiliated after receiving the Call Sheet because she thought it reduced her to a sexual Case 1:17-cv-05532-DAB Document 24 Filed 10/04/18 Page 2 of 16 3 object. (Compl. ¶¶ 45-47.) The day after she received the Call Sheet, she met with Rehwaldt to complain of what she felt was sexual harassment. (Id. ¶ 48.) Plaintiff told him that he had sexually harassed her, that his actions humiliated her in front of her coworkers, and that she was concerned she would not be paid properly for her work the day before. (Id. ¶ 49.) Rehwaldt allegedly admitted that the language he used on the Call Sheet was inappropriate but also told her that she could be replaced easily. (Id. ¶ 50.) Plaintiff did not complain further because she was allegedly afraid that she would lose her job. (Id. ¶ 52.) On September 24, 2015, Plaintiff allegedly “received notice that she was no longer needed” on set for The Affair. (Id. ¶ 53.) When she asked for an explanation, she was allegedly told that she did not have a good hair match with the actress playing Ashley and that the show was looking for someone else to fill her role. (Id. ¶ 54.)1 Plaintiff thought that this explanation was untrue because she had been wearing a wig for the duration of her work in the role without issue and because the actress hired to replace her in the role also allegedly wears a wig. (Id. ¶¶ 55-56.) 1 Plaintiff does not explain who told her this in her Complaint. Case 1:17-cv-05532-DAB Document 24 Filed 10/04/18 Page 3 of 16 there are 13 more pages to the court case. link above https://www.thewrap.com/the-affair-body-double-sues-claims-she-was-sexually-harassed/ The Affair’ Body Double Sues, Claims She Was Sexually Harassed Woman says she was referred to as “Alison Sexytime Double” on call sheet Tim Kenneally | July 21, 2017 @ 11:54 AM Last Updated: July 21, 2017 @ 12:41 PM A woman who says that she worked as the body double for Ruth Wilson on the Showtime series “The Affair” is suing the cable outlet, claiming she suffered sexual harassment and was canned from her job after complaining about it. In the lawsuit, Ashlynn Alexander — who says that she served as Wilson’s body double from October 2013 until September 2015 — says that an assistant director on the show referred to her as “Alison Sexytime Double” on a call sheet, an apparent reference to Wilson’s character, Alison Bailey. Typically, the suit says, Alexander would be referred to as “Alison Body Double.” Also Read: Sean 'Diddy' Combs Asked His Chef to Rate His Naked Body, Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Claims “Ms. Alexander was humiliated. She takes her career seriously and knew that everyone working on ‘The Affair’ read the call sheet and would see her reduced to a sexual object,” the lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in New York, reads. “Ms. Alexander was singled out and demeaned in front of everyone she worked with on set,” it continued. According to Alexander, when she confronted him [the assistant director] about the reference, he “admitted that his language on the call sheet was inappropriate and then belittled Ms. Alexander, stating that she could be easily replaced.” Less than a week later, in September 2015, that’s what happened, the suit alleges, as Alexander was sacked. Also Read: Fox News Orders Sensitivity Training for All Employees After O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Scandal The suit claims that Alexander was told her she was let go because “she did not have a good hair match with Wilson and ‘The Affair’ was looking for someone else to fill her former role” — which doesn’t make sense, according to the suit, she “had been wearing a wig for the duration of her work as Wilson’s body double, without issue.” As a result of her alleged treatment, the lawsuit says, Alexander “became lethargic,withdrawn and depressed.” “It is difficult for Ms. Alexander to approach potential jobs with the same enthusiasm and ambition. Ms. Alexander is afraid of the next possible situation where she will be harassed and humiliated,” the suit reads. “Ms. Alexander now suffers from a high level of anxiety which has negatively influenced the level of confidence that she has in her ability to perform her job.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/showtime-says-affair-actress-shouldnt-complain-being-called-a-sexytime-double-1053230?utm_source=twitter October 31, 2017 7:54am PT by Eriq Gardner Showtime Says 'The Affair' Actress Shouldn't Complain About Being Called a "Sexytime Double" Fighting a lawsuit from a body double hired for the series, the network's attorneys try a 'Dunkirk' analogy. Showtime's lawyers apparently didn't get the memo that this would be a good time to treat sexual harassment claims with extra sensitivity. Check out the arguments being presented in a lawsuit from Ashlynn Alexander, an actress who was hired as Ruth Wilson's body double on the The Affair. Alexander claims she was fired after complaining of sexual harassment by an assistant director on set. Specifically, Alexander says she was humiliated when a call sheet described her as "Alison Sexytime Double." Seeing herself reduced to a sexual object, Alexander voiced objection. A few days later, she received notice that she was no longer needed for The Affair for the alleged reason that she was not a good hair match with Wilson. Alexander, who says she wore a wig for her role, is now suing for retaliation and discrimination. On Monday, Showtime and Possible Productions brought a motion to either compel arbitration or dismiss the complaint outright. The defendants see the objectionable description as completely appropriate. "To the extent the Call Sheet refers to 'Alison sexy time' at all, that reference appears in the 'Instructions' portion of the Call Sheet, which contains detailed instructions on props, sound, set dress, location, hair, and makeup, the purpose of which is to ensure that the set and actors are made up appropriately for the scene about to be filmed," states the defendants' court brief. "It would make no sense, for instance, for an actor portraying a dying soldier on the beaches of Dunkirk to be dressed up for a fashion show, freshly showered, clean shaven and coiffed." Showtime then adds that Alexander "can therefore scarcely complain that the hair and makeup instructions in question provided that the Alison character be made up for 'sexy time' when the scene in question involved intimate close-up shots of Alison engaged in simulated sexual intercourse, particularly when that was precisely the scene for which Plaintiff was hired." The defendant also includes as an exhibit the "Nudity and Simulated Sex Rider" that Alexander allegedly executed when agreeing to the role as body double. Later in the court brief, Showtime argues to the judge that Alexander hasn't adequately pled the elements of a discrimination claim. The cable network's attorneys at Willkie Farr & Gallagher write, "Leaving aside the utter implausibility of Plaintiff’s contention that she was 'humiliated' by the reference to 'Alison sexy time' in the instructions portion of the Call Sheet, the Complaint does not allege any facts from which the Court can infer that the phrase 'sexy time' was included in the Call Sheet because Plaintiff is a woman." (Italics are used in the court brief.) Showtime says the dispute deserves to be arbitrated because Alexander's daily hire contract contains a broad arbitration provision, but if the judge doesn't accept that, the defendants are additionally arguing that Alexander's complaint to her superior wasn't sufficient to put producers on notice that she was engaging in a protected activity. It's added that Showtime and Possible Productions owed her no additional employment once the filming of a sex scene concluded.

Oh ok. Things make a little more sense then. I couldn't believe Cole stayed away from Montauk that long. ... but then I forgot they changed just about everything about him!

Noah talking to Joanie said when he and Cole saw each other they both just about had a heart attack. Did they say where that occurred? The LR maybe? The only one who should have been surprised was Cole as he lived in Montauk most of his life. Noah buying a year round place there would be the surprising development. Absolutely no mention of Noah asking how Joanie was or if she lived there with Cole might he bring her by next time or anything that normal people would've discussed. If Noah moved to Montauk right after Whitney's wedding and he and Cole ran into each other during the past 30 years... I'd assume Joanie lived with her father until she was 18 or 20 at least? So Noah would not be just meeting adult Joanie now having not seen her growing up. Like how would that even be possible? Did anyone catch how many years Cole and Joanie spent in Vermont? I got the impression it was not all that long before Cole returned to Montauk. Sometimes I wonder if new writers were brought on board this season who didn't really thoroughly familiarize themselves with the first 4 seasons. Like maybe they watched it through once and their attention was diverted at times. It's maddening.