The Affair--recent episode (can't find original season thread)

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Am I the only one that feels like I missed an episode between last week and this week? I guess I was surprised at how immediately Noah and Alison went back at it after seemingly putting the affair behind them and trying to move on with their lives.

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About 10 minutes into this most recent episode, my wife said, "Did we miss an episode or am I forgetting a bunch of stuff from last week?" So yeah we both felt the same way.

At the end of the previous episode they had fast forwarded a while, but made it confusing this week because they reset back.

I enjoyed the different perspective plot device when they were giving different stories to the detective, but now that they aren't, it doesn't really make sense to do it. I understand why their stories would differ a little, but it seems like they differ way too much.

It has been a decent show, but a few too many filler episodes. Ready for the story to wrap up.

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I searched the first 15 pages and the only "The Affair" threads I found were from people new to the series about halfway through. What were everyone's impressions about the recent episode? Am I the only one that feels like I missed an episode between last week and this week? I guess I was surprised at how immediately Noah and Alison went back at it after seemingly putting the affair behind them and trying to move on with their lives.

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I think they didn't jump right back into it. They skipped ahead quite a bit in their lives because you here Noah reference that all he has thought about was her for the last 6 months or so.

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Also, I didn't really understand the whole thing with Oscar and Alison; I know she felt used by Noah and confused about what she was going to do and how she felt but I thought it was a bit over the top and didn't feel natural.

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Oscar is in love with Allison. I think she was angry at herself and after a few things she decided to bang the person she hates as some sort of self hatred. She also cuts herself and tends to do irrational things because she blames herself for her child's death.

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And how stupid was Noah to put Alison's bra in his dresser drawer? I guess either he was sentimentally attached to it and didn't want to trash it, or he subconsciously wanted his wife to find it so he could come clean (again).

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He told on himself more than once. I don't think he wanted her to know that he hooked up with Allison at home because I do think he wants to protect his wifes feelings but at this point he is acting so irrational that he probably wasn't thinking.

Another thing that I found weird is that Allison dumped out all of her shampoo when she showered. My wife said that was because females love their shampoo and that was her way of saying take that or imposing herself into Noah's homelife.

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Once again, the main problem I had with the episode was that I feel like I missed a lot between last week and this week. Anyone else get that feeling?

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They forwarded their lives months so yes they skipped some stuff and took it back to Noah and Allison back to communicating and re opening the old wounds.

Now that's a season finale.

I really have tried to like this show. In fact I started watching it with a lot of anticipation. I liked the narrative from two points of view. Until we got to about five episodes or so. I then realized it was going nowhere fast. I stuck with it to the finale, but it's becoming a steamy heap with unlikeable, uninteresting characters. As far as narrative and plot? They don't even know what the frick they're going to do next.

I thought the series was super meh until the two last episodes, where it definitely improved. But yeah, I definitely get the feeling that they don't know what they're going to do next, so they just set up a cliff hanger leaving a lot of possibilities.

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I just don't like the extreme differences in the two POVs... Even the writer of the show states that there are more differences in the most extreme situations. Wouldn't you think it'd be the opposite? Like the scenes with the most conflict should be clear in their POVs...i don't know man.

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What, you don't find it plausible the truth is somewhere in between their recollections of what went down with Cole?

noah was running running through some chicks last night.

I personally don't think Noah actually killed Scotty.

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I personally don't think Noah actually killed Scotty

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I think the Grandmother set the whole thing up... she probably had it worked out and is trying to place the blame on Noah bc he's an obvious suspect.

It makes sense because her PI sent the video of the Noah/Scotty fight to the detective.

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I actually think Alison is the one who ran Scotty over and Noah is just taking care of this for her

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Agreed in this thought process.

He would do anything for her. He basically walked away from his wife without even missing her because of how hard he fell for Allison.

I think the ending was pretty telling. She looked at him and said I will help get you out of this and he just looked at her stunned. Everyone has been painting it up to be Noah as the prime suspect and he has told alot of lies in discussions with the detective so it's too easy to say it's him. Got to be something else going on behind the scenes.

Thought the show was great but wish more questions would've been answered last night.