(We caught up a few weeks ago.)
Yeah, this would be a good stopping point. Noah’s good with his family. He apparently got over his deal with Alison and moved on, sort of. Helen’s back with the doc. Alison and Cole …, well we don’t know what their status is now.
The figment/guard thing occurred to us early on. But I was hoping for something more interesting that could carry forward into the next season. E.g., that it was Oscar who was setting up Cole for stabbing Noah.
Did it strike anyone else how oddly friendly Oscar was to Cole & Co.?
I was assuming that part of the reason for the imaginary guard story was so that Noah had an excuse for not writing a novel in prison. The guard took it! But all we get is a shot of him looking at a very small set of pages and being surprised by it. No real payoff.
The whole NJ thing is incomplete. Alison went to a mental hospital in NJ. Noah’s out of prison and living in NJ. But neither are aware of the other during the overlap.
Then Noah recognizes he’s going crazy and Alison is going to magically work at the mental hospital. So obviously they are going to get the two together there.
But they don’t. It’s skipped over completely.
Note that it’s not just Noah that everybody is hot for. Everybody also wants Helen and Alison. Oh, and Juliette is not lacking for action.
The main weakness of the show continues to be the double viewpoint theme. Why? They have to deliberately make changes just to show that there are differences. But these changes usually don’t make any sense in context. And some don’t make logical sense. Two people aren’t going to have wildly different memories of when/where major events take place.
It hinders the storytelling without providing a big enough justification for keeping it.
What’s next for these people? Does it matter?