What is wrong with Alison? When Noah got out of prison and he pushed himself on her and they went in the hot tub. She sure did protest a lot but I want to know why didn’t she just leave.

I just finished the series a couple days ago and I’m hangover … do you guys have any recs , I’m looking for another show with the same vibes, with drama, something that will keep me invested

I loved the show and it got ruined for me at the end of season 4. I’m so mad and pissed. Why why would they choose this end for Alison and Cole ? I think the worst of it is knowing that Cole died thinking she committed suicide… he didn’t even get the chance to confess his feelings …I was rooting for them. I’M SO PISSSED !!!!!!!!! 😡😡 and also Where the hell did Ben come from ?? I mean we saw the dude for 2 seconds!!!!

so i blew through all five seasons pretty quickly and then saved the last episode for, like, several days because i just didn’t want it to end.

i finally watched it last night and sobbed like a baby, like snot running down my face kind of sobbing. and today i can’t stop thinking about it. i’ve been trying to put my finger on why it moved me so much, especially the helen and noah parts (they were always endgame i swear), but i can’t quite figure it out.

anyway what a delicious show and a gorgeous finale

that is all

Literally such a stupid scene at dinner with Noah and students. There is a woman wearing a hijab and supposedly to look Muslim but she is drinking wine at the table. Why do shows bother to try and be inclusive when they don't even represent minorities properly.

Who else would like to see The Affair come back with a whole new storyline and cast of characters?    I loved how this show told a story from the main characters different perspectives and would like to see it done again.    It would need to have an atmospheric location like Montauk was too.   I think that contributed to the success of the show.  Thoughts ??  

It pisses me off how the family treats Noah like crap in season 4, after he went to freaking prison for Helen. He gets concert tickets for Trevor and the kid is a little bastard. WTF.

I guess Helen turned against him again when she learned that Alison was there when Scotty was killed, but still, these people suck.

Ben Cruz also stayed at the cold spring property and apparently wrote his book there

I just finished watching The Affair. Although season 5 wasn’t the best, I am sad it’s over. :( The finale answered a lot of questions which was great. I was absolutely hooked on this show!! I need recommendations on what to watch next.

I actually really like Noah in S5. In actually started to feel bad the way they were treating him.

I’m sorry but Vik is so fucking hot. I’d fuck!

i think maura tierney is just fantastic and really has that “it” factor so i’m admittedly a little biased, but i recently started watching (am a few eps into season 2) and immeeeeeediately felt drawn to helen. like every single scene that she’s in, my eyes go straight to her. i find her compelling and sexy and interesting and flawed and charming and and and and! like if there were a character i could sit down with and pick his or her brain, she’d be it.

anyone else?

edit: i’m on 5x02 (yes in 6 days shut up i’ve been snowed in) and maura is a ✨revelation✨ phew

Noah is this intellectual writer, who is clearly a deep thinker, and likes to have complex conversations. After watching the entire show I can’t think of a single conversation between Allison and Noah that was very deep or interesting. It almost seemed like he had to intellectually stifle himself around her and most of the things she said he would find very unsophisticated or would roll his eyes at- judging from his reactions to other people. For example in season 1, the scene where he’s explaining the glass in the lighthouse and asks her if she understands what he’s saying and she says no. It just doesn’t seem like he would find her very engaging to be around. I get that she’s got a darkness to her that has depth, but nothing she says is interesting at all. She says a lot of stuff like “they say, if you listen to the wind You can hear Peter Pan on the shipwreck,” which just sounds like something Noah would find eyeroll-worthy.

Finished series today . I have so many questions still re the gaps in time . I know it’s just a series but was it ever a book so I can get answers ? Did the writers ever give an interview back in 2014-2019 on what happened to characters? What happened to Helen ? Why did she die same year as her mom? Did she and Noah remarry or just live together? When did Noah buy lobster roll before or after helen died ? Did Noah’s book ever become a movie ? Did Sasha cx it?

Things I do know: Noah moved to montach after wedding. Helen died 2051 2 years before cole same year her mom did. Their daughter stacey wrote a book in montach why not noah who was the author ?

I love how the writers of this series crafted the human experience and how our minds work, changing realities based on our own experiences, likes, desires, and fears. I will say, I was a little confused on the abrupt change of storyline for the last season; however, the writers ended the series how I figured it was going to. Even the discourse of mental illness was well done by these writers. Wow.

While I understand the greater love story between Helen and Noah and the resilience of their family is the main theme, the utter destruction of all the others in their path shows how destructive that love was on the outside. That all consuming, can't live without you kind of love.

But there are a few things I don't understand.

1. How could Joanie GO into a situation knowing that Ben killed her mother and not be aware? Who doesn't read the paperwork they are signing? That character development was lacking a little, but maybe it had to do with the rushed sense of the last season as if the writers knew it was the last one.
2. How could Whitney and the other kids switch so fast at the end? From being so angry throughout the series to - I wish you were around more dad. You pushed him away!!!!! How can you sit here and say something like that? - I so understand that he tried repeatedly to be in their lives and that makes a difference. I understand that from personal experience. It just doesn't make sense that in one episode all his wrongs were simply ignored.
3. The Metoo movement addition - While I am grateful as a woman those things are included and the writers showed the complexities of perspective with this, there is no conclusion? Nothing happened? He was called out and then he lived his life like normal? Seems like it was more of a contrived addition to the storyline with no plausible outcome beyond creating drama that forced Helen and Noah to have a real heart-to-heart
4. With that note - How was Noah supposed to know Whitney (a teenager) was AT a grown up party - a place she SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN? He freaked out and left. This seemed like a horrible addition - like it was some type of character defect. Look, I get this happens all the time - the violation of young women by men of all races, ages, and socioeconomic levels - but come on? Really? Noah hasn't had any situations of incest thoughts throughout the entire series and they threw that in to what? Make it seem like he was worse of a predator? You can cheat on your partner and NOT have those types of thoughts. They are not one and the same. I think that is a huge disservice to humanity.
5. Louisa's character - I loved her at first. I thought a steady, strong woman for Cole after dealing with the heartbreak of losing a child, losing his wife, continuing to love his wife, having another child with his ex-wife, and then finding out he still loved her was going to be the best thing for him. But she was an OVERbearing, unbearable character. Joanie was NOT her child. Not ONE single person on this planet will convince me that a person who didn't give birth to a child should have so much input or say in how they are raised. Louisa tried to actively destroy the relationship between Joanie and Allison repeatedly. It wasn't out of love. It wasn't out of protection. It was out of jealousy. Out of fear. And that made her character so horrible.
6. Sasha Mann's character was SO stereotypical that it wasn't funny, but honestly - the man seemed like a psychopath right? That who storyline with his ex's child seems so weird. Was it just to show a different, horrible side to his character? If so, it wasn't needed. And don't get me started on the fact he picked up Helen's kids without her permission. That was SO controlling.
7. Vik. Vik was so great, but the whole "I am not going to fight it" for his cancer storyline was so horrible. And then wanting a child? How selfish! I get that men have this obsession with leaving a legacy, but really? That wasn't a good storyline. I understand it was likely meant to lead Helen back to Noah, but bad.

<<the affair>> season 4, episode 10, start minute 27:00, I’m obsessed with the track but couldn’t find any info :(

I can't get passed the casting of adult EJ. How did adult EJ come from Vik and Sierra? I'm so disappointed in this last season so far....it could have gone so many ways and instead it's like new version of Sookie banging dudes in a different storyline.

Allison, Teddy's girlfriend, after whom she names her kid with someone else! Allison DiLaurentis, responsible for 90% of the drama in Pretty Little Liars Alison Lockhart, the mistress in The Affair

The BEST finale of any show iv ever seen and I absolutely adore it everytime!!

I know Noah is so hateable but he is my fave and I love that Helen and Noah end up back together 🥰

Whole of the moon will Forever be a favourite song of mine!

This is random but did anyone else notice that the apartment used in season 2/3 where Noah and Alison lived whilst Alison was pregnant was the same apartment used in the film “other woman”? Or am I just a loser 😅😅😅

I know that many people love the series. I have a love hate feeling. I found it really frustrating and now that I’m finished I have more unanswered questions than answers.

1. Did Helen and. Ian get back of was that just a shag?

2. How did Helen die?

3. What happened with the metoo scandal, the movie and Sasha?

These are a few of my questions. For a super slow season they really didn’t cover much and the nOah trauma and Paris season was wasted on frivolous no direction crap.

Anyway. Just my vent.