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The Affair [Showtime]

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    #302
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    I forgot Noah went to jail ! He deserves more respect !!!
    Also....... was the English actor doing heroin ? I have never heard of someone shooting up vitamin B in toilets on a night out...,,
    Yeah what was he doing with a syringe? Unless he has a medical condition, which might be the reason and it's a red herring.

    But yeah I'd be worried too about an ex whom I cared for if he was seeing a woman I thought was using heroin. Add children into the mix and it's ten times worse.

    Wondering if Noah's perception of Sasha is similar to that of the prison guard - an actually decent guy but whom Noah is extremely paranoid about. Noah took pills at one point in the episode. Wondered what they were for - were they pain relief or psychiatric meds.

    Yeah the way his prison stint may as well never have happened is annoying. I really hope too that insight into Alison's death and Cole's and Joanie's subsequent life is given.


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    #303
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Apologies if I missed it but didn't see anyone mention the daughters Irish hubby to be with the ridiculous accent and my family are all drunks stereotype


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    #304
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users Posts: 4,212 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Apologies if I missed it but didn't see anyone mention the daughters Irish hubby to be with the ridiculous accent and my family are all drunks stereotype

    Is he Irish ? I thought he was Swedish it something ?.... that can’t actually be meant to be an Irish accent !


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    #305
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Is he Irish ? I thought he was Swedish it something ?.... that can’t actually be meant to be an Irish accent !

    I thought the same at first, he just appeared in ep 3, definitely Irish.


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    #306
    odyssey06
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    I thought he was Canadian, eh?

    The actor is from England and is just listed as 'Colin'.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #307
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I thought he was Canadian, eh?

    The actor is from England and is just listed as 'Colin'.

    Latest episode clarifies he's Irish anyway


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    #308
    Unearthly
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    Yeah the accent is absolutely terrible


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    #309
    Raconteuse
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    The actor is a Londoner. He gets the N.I. accent right at times imo. But when he doesn't it's really awful.

    Crikey, a lot happened in that episode.

    Whatever about the writing, the acting is of an extraordinary calibre imo. From the kids up to that absolute Baby Jane who's Helen's mother, superb.


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    #310
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users Posts: 4,212 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    Dominic west must have been thinking what the f when he was running around with all those sex toys... the show has become bizzare.... also when ever they want to cast an asshole they seem to just hire someone with an English accent


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    #311
    Raconteuse
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    I actually thought Sasha was Furkat at the start of this season.


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    #312
    thesultan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭thesultan


    How did the woman at the end of the most recent sky Atlantic come into it. What's her story?


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    #313
    Raconteuse
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    thesultan wrote: »
    How did the woman at the end of the most recent sky Atlantic come into it. What's her story?
    Which woman?


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    #314
    thesultan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭thesultan


    She is new to this series


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    #315
    Raconteuse
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    thesultan wrote: »
    She is new to this series
    But which character is she?


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    #316
    thesultan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭thesultan


    She got rode by some black fella a episode back.


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    #317
    Unearthly
    Registered Users Posts: 7,990 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    She is Joanie (Allison and Cole's daughter) about 30 years into the future


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    #318
    TheSheriff
    Registered Users Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭TheSheriff


    Watched the first two episodes of this. It's quite bleak - don't think I'll be sticking with this season.

    It's so far away from the reasons I initially started watching.


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    #319
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users Posts: 4,212 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    TheSheriff wrote: »
    Watched the first two episodes of this. It's quite bleak - don't think I'll be sticking with this season.

    It's so far away from the reasons I initially started watching.

    It’s the final season... a few episodes left.. you might as well stick out this ridiculous mess of a show


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    #320
    thesultan
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    Unearthly wrote: »
    She is Joanie (Allison and Cole's daughter) about 30 years into the future
    Never knew they went forward.


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    #321
    Raconteuse
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    Cole dies in 2053 aged 74. Joanie (aged about late 30s/early 40s) goes to his grave in his home town Montauk, which is mostly abandoned due to flooding. She goes to his house too and throws out most photos and stuff, and the keepsake box for her brother Gabriel who drowned before she was born.

    That was bleak stuff for sure. She's a messed up woman, unwilling to admit to those not in the know that she has children (on the surface because of the ecological risk, and she's an environmental scientist), has attempted suicide (she took a bunch of pills in the first or second episode but threw them up) and had really rough (including choking) sex with a stranger in deserted, dark Montauk while her husband/partner and children are at home.

    She's an Alison clone.


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    #322
    EltonJohn69
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Cole dies in 2053 aged 74. Joanie (aged about late 30s/early 40s) goes to his grave in his home town Montauk, which is mostly abandoned due to flooding. She goes to his house too and throws out most photos and stuff, and the keepsake box for her brother Gabriel who drowned before she was born.

    That was bleak stuff for sure. She's a messed up woman, unwilling to admit to those not in the know that she has children (on the surface because of the ecological risk, and she's an environmental scientist), has attempted suicide (she took a bunch of pills in the first or second episode but threw them up) and had really rough (including choking) sex with a stranger in deserted, dark Montauk while her husband/partner and children are at home.

    She's an Alison clone.


    I wonder if Furkat is still operating in the future ? Maybe he is running the lobster roll ?


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    #323
    Raconteuse
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    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    I wonder if Furkat is still operating in the future ? Maybe he is running the lobster roll ?
    You're spot on actually. Furkat, despite being in his 80s, elected to run the derelict Lobster Roll as the ultimate art installation in his late years.

    Naturally he and Joanie end up riding too.


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    #324
    Shelga
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Shelga


    Ok I take back my earlier opinion somewhat, after catching up on all the season 2 episodes yesterday.

    It’s totally bonkers but can still deliver really great, heart wrenching scenes. I also like that we got a Whitney POV- interesting that Helen is a borderline alcoholic who shields her daughter from none of her worries, in Whitney’s version.


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    #325
    Mc Love
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    Yikes the Sierra chapter was a hard watch. New babies are tough work but having one on your own is nigh on impossible. Why does everyone picture Helen as a bit of a bitch?


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    #326
    Raconteuse
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    Yeah I like Helen. She's narky for sure but her partner (who cheated on her) has just died, she has four children to worry about - some of them troubled, her parents are deranged, the father of her four children left her for another woman, and she's expected to be everyone's rock.

    Bloody hell I'd be narky too!


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    #327
    EltonJohn69
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    There seems to be a disportionately high number of assholes in the show.....


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    #328
    Shelga
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    Sorry, but I didn’t feel that sorry for Sierra. Twice in the episode she put her baby in an incredibly dangerous situation. Yes being a new mother is hard, it must help when you live in a mansion and have next to no money worries though.


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    #329
    EltonJohn69
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    Some very beautiful homes..... the size of those door handles !!!


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    #330
    Mc Love
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    Shelga wrote: »
    Sorry, but I didn’t feel that sorry for Sierra. Twice in the episode she put her baby in an incredibly dangerous situation. Yes being a new mother is hard, it must help when you live in a mansion and have next to no money worries though.

    Her mother is a nutter and constantly belittles her, maybe her whole life. Gives her bad advice etc. She definitely wasnt ready for motherhood. Hopefully she grows as a person as a result.

    Cant believe she gave the baby to a 12 year old to mind though, especially with the colic etc.


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    #331
    Foxtrol
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Yeah I like Helen. She's narky for sure but her partner (who cheated on her) has just died, she has four children to worry about - some of them troubled, her parents are deranged, the father of her four children left her for another woman, and she's expected to be everyone's rock.

    Bloody hell I'd be narky too!

    I think this is where the multiple perspectives become interesting and I find have possibly even improved with more points of view and less crossover within episodes than earlier seasons. She nearly always see's herself as the martyr and a person that everyone thinks is a great person or 'their rock', rarely ever accepting from her perspective that she makes selfish decisions, instead always shifting blame to someone else for forcing her to make that choice.

    For all Noah's faults, he regularly acknowledges when he is a mess and his poor choices, at times even taking more of the blame than what others see from their perspective.


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