The Affair Season3

[Anonymous]

This show has completely and totally lost me. I could barely finish the last episode, after finally forcing myself to watch it today, nearly a week after it aired.

I feel like it's just totally lost it's momentum, so now it's gone the "everyone on the show has gone crazy" route to try to keep some drama going, not realizing that it makes it a big, melodramatic, unrealistic bore.

Add that to the truly shocking level of misogyny the show has taken on in the past season, and I'm out. Shame because I felt like throughout season 1 and 2 both Allison and Helen were two wonderfully complex and wonderful female characters, compared to the rest of the television landscape (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This show has completely and totally lost me. I could barely finish the last episode, after finally forcing myself to watch it today, nearly a week after it aired.

I feel like it's just totally lost it's momentum, so now it's gone the "everyone on the show has gone crazy" route to try to keep some drama going, not realizing that it makes it a big, melodramatic, unrealistic bore.

Add that to the truly shocking level of misogyny the show has taken on in the past season, and I'm out. Shame because I felt like throughout season 1 and 2 both Allison and Helen were two wonderfully complex and wonderful female characters, compared to the rest of the television landscape (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).

I feel the same way. The last scene with Noah was too much for me.

[Anonymous]

I am much more into this season than the 1st. I was very bored in the first season with the cheating. It held zero interest for me and I stopped watching about 1/3 of the way through.

But all of the awful fall out from that, is far more interesting, in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

I think this season is the most interesting out of all of them. And I guess I'm in the minority but I get really bored when we have to sit through the Allison and Cole storylines -- Helen and Noah are much more interesting to me.

[Anonymous]

Why is Juliette part of the show? Her complicated story adds nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is Juliette part of the show? Her complicated story adds nothing.

I had the same question and then figured Showtime must be test marketing her for another Showtime series. Otherwise, she was pointless and expensive to include in the series. Writers pretty much closed the doors on her storyline so I'm hoping she won't be returning to season 4.

The first half of the season finale was mind numbing to watch. It was all I need French and subtitled. Extremely disappointing. Did they have new writers this season?

[Anonymous]

I agree, Juliette adds nothing to the show. Her storyline is so boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is Juliette part of the show? Her complicated story adds nothing.

I had the same question and then figured Showtime must be test marketing her for another Showtime series. Otherwise, she was pointless and expensive to include in the series. Writers pretty much closed the doors on her storyline so I'm hoping she won't be returning to season 4.

The first half of the season finale was mind numbing to watch. It was all I need French and subtitled. Extremely disappointing. Did they have new writers this season?

OMG THAT WAS THE SEASON FINALE??!! Horrible...

[Anonymous]

I really liked their being in Paris. I'm bored of Montauk and Brooklyn as the only backdrops (and that awful place Noah grew up in, not sure where that is...)

And I liked the Juliette story. Hey, at least it wasn't something we'd seen in this show a million times before.

And I loved Etienne. He was fabulous.

[Anonymous]

The way they tied it up in the end, I was sure it was the last season - then I read there will be a season 4. Where can they possibly go with this show from here? I don't want to watch these characters F up their lives anymore, seriously.

[Anonymous]

I really don't understand why they spent 1/2 of the season finale on Juliette. She is okay, but such a side character IMO. Disappointed that the other aspects of the show are left hanging. Are we to assume Helen and Vik are back together? Are Cole and Luisa solid? I just do not understand.

[Anonymous]

That was a brilliant episode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The way they tied it up in the end, I was sure it was the last season - then I read there will be a season 4. Where can they possibly go with this show from here? I don't want to watch these characters F up their lives anymore, seriously.

Helen paying the price for what she did, maybe.

I got whiplash in the last episode, seeing Noah go from totally deranged to all cleaned up and with his sh!t together.

This season was just depressing. It was complex and I liked certain things about it, but boy- what a bunch of sad sacks. I hope that if there is another episode it shows some people redeeming themselves a bit.

[Anonymous]

It was definitely a weird season, very uneven. I'm not sure why they spent so much time on Noah's fixation on John Gunther only to reveal it's all in his head. And then to spend no time explaining how on earth he went from hallucinating and stabbing himself in the neck to being totally fine. Personally I would have preferred that it really was John Gunther and there was some interesting backstory there.

I like Juliette's story -- I don't really see how it connects with anything unless they plan to weave her into the storyline next season. But I think she's a very talented actress and very compelling on screen.

I didn't buy for a second that worldly Whitney would ever defend a man who hit her. And I also didn't buy that she would forgive her dad that easily. It would have been much more authentic to the narrative if she either temporarily forgave him, or fake-forgave him, to get out of Paris and back home. She has too much anger to let it go so quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was definitely a weird season, very uneven. I'm not sure why they spent so much time on Noah's fixation on John Gunther only to reveal it's all in his head. And then to spend no time explaining how on earth he went from hallucinating and stabbing himself in the neck to being totally fine. Personally I would have preferred that it really was John Gunther and there was some interesting backstory there.

I like Juliette's story -- I don't really see how it connects with anything unless they plan to weave her into the storyline next season. But I think she's a very talented actress and very compelling on screen.

I didn't buy for a second that worldly Whitney would ever defend a man who hit her. And I also didn't buy that she would forgive her dad that easily. It would have been much more authentic to the narrative if she either temporarily forgave him, or fake-forgave him, to get out of Paris and back home. She has too much anger to let it go so quickly.

I completely agree with your first and last paragraph. But for Juliette I think they have just set up a slightly under-explored parallel. The woman is having an affair and losing her husband through illness and eventually death. And she is devastated. Its given the story some humanity that was missing. Everything in previous seasons about all the affairs going on was pretty broad brush strokes of emotion and cliche. This woman and her complex background and her even more complicated responses to her circumstances, are accumulatively all the more human than anything that has come before. It ended in a graceful way, but only because her story was allowed to dominate.