Episode #5.11
- Episode aired Nov 3, 2019
- TV-MA
- 1h 29m
It's Whitney's wedding day and everything comes full circle. Series finale.It's Whitney's wedding day and everything comes full circle. Series finale.It's Whitney's wedding day and everything comes full circle. Series finale.
Storyline
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- Quotes
Whitney Solloway: If people hurt you very badly, do you have to forgive them?
Bruce Butler: No. But sometimes it hurts you more than it hurts them to hold a grudge.
Whitney Solloway: What's it all for, then? If people can act however they want and get forgiven, then what is the point of trying to be good in the first place?
Bruce Butler: I think it's about what kind of life you want to live. You will have plenty of opportunities to be angry in your life. You have less chance to love people, though. Really love them. So you just.. you want to be careful how many of those opportunities you squander. I think young people believe they'll just keep coming, but they don't.
- SoundtracksThe Whole of the Moon
Written by Mike Scott
Performed by Fiona Apple
Produced and arranged by Tony Berg
Wendy Melvoin - Guitar & Bass
Matt Chamberlain - Drums
Patrick Warren - Keyboards
Ethan Gruska - Piano
Phoebe Bridgers - Backing vocals
The Affair was very different and kind of experimental as a show, the multiple perspective was one aspect but the writing and these characters like Noah, whom were full of flaws and contradictions was made this show so unique and the most adult tv show on Cable or tv period. I think the more we go forward, tv shows tend to get less with any depth but this show hit ball way out of the ball park and for those of you who came here and wrote these reviews about the ending, only made me happier that I am not in the minority for an adult male in his fifties who appreciates this kind of shows that are so rare and may take decades for something even close to it to be made again.
What moved me about the ending is how everything ended in a way at Montauk, this little suburb where Noah met Alison, yet Noah not only returned to but bought the very place where he met Alison. How Noah's daughter's wedding took place in the same city, how Eddie and Joanie met there, and how Noah and Helen finally find their way back together in that same city. I just wished that the ending could also include Cole whom I also cared a great deal about as a character, in season 4 when him and Noah joined to find Alison, it was among the best pairing of two characters that really what brought them together was the love of one woman. Cole died in Montauk and as Eddie said, he loved it more and more as people left and the place was returning to what it used to be. The seafood pregutory was actually the place where Joanie found the answer to the meaning of life from Noah, whom was also reading a book about Montauk at the end leaning against Helen's grave.
I think we all want to find where our Montauk, some find it like Noah and Cole and hold on to it and some of us never find it. I think we all had our own special affair with this show and we are all share the same sadness and happiness of what we learned from these characters and about maybe something more about life and how short it is.
- BirdmanT7
- Mar 10, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes