SPOILERS AHEAD: Showtime’s The Affair finished its five season run tonight, with the series’ co-creator and guiding creative voice Sarah Treem making her directorial debut on the finale. Treem took…
) find a way back to each other. This was something that seemed nearly impossible after his affair with the desperately unhappy Alison , who found her way into the arms of the bored wannabe bestselling author Noah. He left his own wife and their four children and a highly unexpected adventure began, one that traced the multi-generational ripples created by such a tumultuous event.
Tonight, Helen and Noah found themselves on the same side of that galaxy described so poetically by the youngest Solloway , but nothing about a reunion is easy, especially for Helen to forgive him. The episode began with Noah – desperate for Whitney to have a perfect wedding even though she has banned him from attending – rehearses the whole family in a flash mob that was part of Whitney’s fantasy of a perfect wedding day.
With the help of EJ, a young man she met when she visited her father’s Hamptons home , Joanie learned that her mother was murdered by Ben, something viewers learned a couple seasons ago. Joanie has also learned that Ben is a wily sociopath unable to turn him in for his crimes, she resolves to avenge her mother’s death by killing him. But Joanie’s own self-discovery will lead her to a better alternative. She’ll learn that EJ is in fact the son of Helen’s second husband Vik and Sierra.
Here is a sometimes slightly existential post mortem chat with Treem about wrapping up a storyline in one of the most emotionally touching series I have seen in a good long time.: You wrote the finale and made your directing debut. After suffering with the Solloway family and watching them grow up with the stain of infidelity and scandal, you couldn’t help but root for them, as unsparing as they have been with each other.
The only way we could do that…if Ben pays for his crimes, the cycle continues and when EJ says, this isn’t going to bring your mother back, she says, I know that. He says, you don’t really know that, and he’s right. The reason we had Ben win that scene is it leads her into a spiral that ultimately leads her back to Noah who gives her the piece of information that changes her life.
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