I don’t know what keeps me watching this show, because there is so much to bitch about, but it keeps drawing me back in. SHOW had a marathon of season 1 yesterday, and I started to watch an episode. Then they screwed up the schedule and showed something different (even though my screen guide said it was supposed to be 2 more episodes) so I went to OnDemand only to see that Episode 2.1 was already available even though it doesn’t air untill tonight.
I won’t spoiler it at all except to say that the writers are including more viewpoints this season. It’s not just Noah and Allison anymore. And they’re including a bit of a jump-forward at the end, as they did in the Season 1 finale.
Well, it’s better than Ray Donovan, which I gave up on midway through this past season.
It seems the Affair’s time shifts and multiple points of view allows it to push the unresolved plot points out further than most shows - confusing at times but not annoying (yet).
Yeah, I gave up on that one, too. Really a shame, because I liked the early episodes. Then when it became more about his irritating wife and spoiled kids… well, that didn’t interest me at all.
I am watching but not sure I really like it. The mediation perspectives were too conflicting- yes, I get it that they’ll see it differently but it seemed a little extreme. And are they living in Allison’s house on the island? That was a little unclear but if true it’s pretty weird and inappropriate IMHO. But it is like a train wreck- hard to look away…
I watched the first season and enjoyed the style of storytelling, but ultimately I didn’t see the chemistry between the two and forgot about the show. I wish they made it more believable as to why they decided to have their first affair with each other–especially him. I never really saw the emotional spark. If all he was doing was satisfying some physical need, I would have expected him to have had lots of affairs in the past. I didn’t really get a good feeling as to why he kept up with the affair either with all the problems it was bringing up.
But I found it very interesting to see the different sides and how each one put themselves in the best light and remembered events as they wanted them to be. It’s very much like real life.
Yep, I really enjoyed that. I binge watched it this summer and will likely catch 2.1 tonight. I think the show actually did a fairly interesting job of developing the story from the different POVs. I do agree that some of the differences between Noah and Allison’s POVs seemed extreme, but I can also see how if you look back far enough you may have a completely different idea of what is going on from someone else there (I’m not entirely sure how far the time jump was from the summer of the affair to when they were getting questioned about it). I’ve had plenty of conversations with friends where we’ve disagreed about things like where something happened, so I can get the differences with Noah and Allison. Though in that case, it was a disagreement about place about something that happened like 5 years ago.
I like the show. Its easy to get confused… I’m going to have to reread some of the threads from last season to even remember where they left off. Also the TWOP site (I think that’s the one I’m thinking of).
If the interest in this thread picks up can we have SPOILER added to the title…it’s hard to discus without spoiling.
Originally I thought that Cold Spring was supposed to be a pseudonym for Cold Spring Harbor, which lies on the north shore of Long Island (and also the name of Billy Joel’s 1st album) - the outdoor shots of the impending storm looked very similar to what I remember, but I’ve since discovered that there is a town called Cold Spring on the Hudson River.
I grew tired of the premise and the plot in Season 1, but I stick around to watch Maura Tierney act circles around everyone else. She was, unsurprisingly, incredible in the latest episode.
I like the expansion of viewpoints this season. I imagine a Cole viewpoint will be coming up soon - I mean no one else seems to have any reason to interact with him at this point, as Allison is in Cold Springs with Noah. Though maybe Allison and Cole have to have an awkward mediation as well.
In addition, I really enjoyed how Helen’s POV makes Max out to be a horrible lover (and interestingly in comparing, from what I remember, HA!, from last season’s Noah perspective and last night’s Helen perspective, Max is a total douche in both viewpoints, isn’t he? - though he has his moments).
Helen’s Story is going to be interesting… I wonder how long she’s been banging Max and smoking weed.
…and whatever hapenned to the “for later (wink wink)” part of the pot lozenge?
I read a review at the Daily Beast in which they suggested that part of last year’s story was just plain wrong and not a reasonably dif viewpoint. I actualy don’t think they think that.
