"The Affair" over Lunch at Lobster Roll

But so many twists! Drugs? Makes sense but I didn't see it coming.

What I found bizarre was how suddenly Noah and Oscar are friends??? Or just that they have a mutual enemy?

I don't get it either - re: Noah and Oscar. And for me, thus far there are no likeable main characters in this series. Yet, I am wondering what will happen next....

Devastating takedown by Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, which hasn't discouraged me from seeing how it ends:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/small-differences?mbid=social_facebook

"The goal seems to be to suggest something about the mutability of memory or truth. Unfortunately, the result is more often like listening to a couple bickering about whose idea it was to go to Queens for Korean food."

Heck, this is not Edward Albee fer heaven sakes.... ;-)

I am watching until the bitter end....it is tiresome with the he said she said and I don't like any of the characters but I will hang in for the finale.

Same here. And yet I lasted less than five minutes last night with Ser Jorah and the Red Tent.

j_r said:

Devastating takedown by Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, which hasn't discouraged me from seeing how it ends:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/small-differences?mbid=social_facebook

"The goal seems to be to suggest something about the mutability of memory or truth. Unfortunately, the result is more often like listening to a couple bickering about whose idea it was to go to Queens for Korean food."

This article is so spot on for me. Every line of it. It's telling when the sadnesses of the characters make me say "ho hum."

I am surprised that this series was nominated for a Golden Globe as best tv drama series. Also Dominic West (Noah) was nominated as best actor in tv drama series.

mlj said:

I am surprised that this series was nominated for a Golden Globe as best tv drama series. Also Dominic West (Noah) was nominated as best actor in tv drama series.

You must be kidding me...

That's like Sandra Bullock winning Best Actress for The Blind Side.

Just reading about West's impressive acting background. Also didn't realize he starred in The Wire. He is a British actor who has managed to acquire an American accent for this part.

i recently finished watching The Wire. He's fantastic in it. The acting of all the characters are incredible and it's a riveting series all around. As a bonus, Maura Tierney's father on The Affair is a major character on The Wire. Go watch as you won't be sorry.

well, turns out that Ruth Wilson (Alison) was nominated as well...best actress in a tv drama series. I guess the Hollywood Foreign Press is good with a slow moving drama.

Finally something happened. I thought I was a good episode.

Yes, a lot happened. Yikes.

And surprising news about the family property.

I still can't believe I'm watching! I don't understand the back and forth story line?

I have kept it on after Homeland often enough to kinda follow (although I am clueless about the intricacies of the murder investigation -- did Noah do it?). This last episode was the least boring by far, I thought, and Alison made me cry. The dual perspective thing, a commentary on both the natural fallibility of memory and our tendency to willfully distort it, is a good trick.

I don't like any of the characters. They're a bunch of despicable people.

Yes, we get it, the daughter is pregnant but both members of the affair think it's the wife. Such a twist

Can anyone fill me in on the last seconds of this week's episode. It got cut off for me. He arrives at the train station and sees her with her husband. She has her bags packed. What happens next? Is anything said?

Alison gets on the train with bags, Noah and Cole { In the Noah version Cole has a bag in his hand , Alison version he does not} are staring at each other on the platform. Role credits

For my wife and myself "The Affair" is basically our "Talking Dead" after the intensity of "Homeland." I enjoy the little differences in the POVs, and am intrigued enough to stick with it to find out why the disparities.

SPOILER ALERT!

My wife suggested Noah killed the kid because of his daughter. But that may just be where the show is manipulating us to go.

mwr said:

Alison gets on the train with bags, Noah and Cole { In the Noah version Cole has a bag in his hand , Alison version he does not} are staring at each other on the platform. Role credits

Huh? You mean the train that Noah just got off?

I think the same train, yes, which presumably is heading back to NYC. She gave Cole a "you're boring and depressing" pout and Noah a "you are lying to me so you can keep getting laid" pout and boarded alone.

If Montauk is the end of the line, then that's a nice scene-framing device that she gets on the same train that he got off of.

Very 'Gift of the Magi,' I was thinking. So where is he going to stay?

As for pouts, I've noticed that all the women on the show kind of have Homer Simpson mouths, where there's a lot of space between their noses and their lips.

Yes , the train that Noah just got off. No, there is nothing said. Just looks.

While there's a lot I can't stand about the show, it's got me now. I want to see the finale, at least.

Horrible finale. I was really hoping the would take a lesson from True Detective and encapsulate one Affair per season with different actors.

Now this storyline gets dragged on - ugh.

I could kick myself for watching was there a storyline?

Actually it was crap. But there was an earlier hint that Noah and Allison would end up together living in the City.

Alison going to stay with her mother made absolutely no sense.

And what about the Detective taking a call from "Steve" and saying "Hi, babe"?