I couldn't believe they were giving Juliette a whole half of the finale. Then, to make things even worse, the second half was also about Noah and Juliette in Paris, from Noah's POV.
This has got to be the most disappointing finale of any show I've seen. I was so excited to see it earlier today.
I kept expecting something exciting to happen, SOMETHING to relate to the other characters or draw us in. Nope. Just Noah being boring as hell
shareI love how Noah is just fine after being a psychotic mess for the whole season.
For god sakes what a horrible finale. I'm not interested enough in boring Juliette and Noah to waste the finale on them.
I wanted find out what was happening with Cole. So disappointing.
This will never end cause I want more. More, give me more, give me more...Vikings/If I Had A Heart
I know!! Good god, what a letdown.
So annoyed the finale was about Who Cares Juliette and Noah -- twice!
I'd have preferred it be about Noah, Alison, Helen, Cole, Vik, even the kids or Cherry. Or at least half of the show about any of them.
Some kind of (doomed) attempt at reconciliation between either Helen and Noah, or Alison and Noah, or Cole and Alison would have been far more interesting.
Maybe even if they took Noah and Juliette's going to France as the (doomed) beginning of a new relationship that might work out, or not, although I just can't summon up interest in Juliette. I don't like her, which is okay, I don't like most of the other characters either, but the show built us up to like the other characters to some degree, and become interested in and invested in them, whereas I found her unlikable and interesting from the first, and have no investment in her at all.
Even with obnoxious from-the-first Whitney, although they've yet to really develop her, I found entertaining to a degree, and was therefore invested in her. But a plot line of she and Noah just happening to be in Paris at the same time and then the limp reconciliation between them, which could have occurred at any time throughout this or next season, as a finale? Please!
So basically, the seasons big cliffhanger is what...
A) Whether Whitney models for Furkat's future artwork
B) Whether Vik (Tin Woodsman) gets a real human heart from the Wizard
C) Whether Alison (Dorothy) will be able to tap her shoes and finally go home again
D) Whether Noah (scarecrow) will get some brains finally...
E) Whether the Butlers got out of the panic room (flying monkeys get freed)
F) Jeffries, the black detective, returns to investigate the premature death of a quality show. It's another whodonit
Lol
sharehehe, well done Smelling-Salt. :)
F) Jeffries, the black detective, returns to investigate the premature death of a quality show. It's another whodonit
Hahahaha! This post is aces.
shareYeah, I'm so done with this show. I mean I did not watch this whole season to wind up watching a half hour of Juliette's perspective which I never gave a *bleep* about to begin with.
So much crap was dropped into this season for no good reason, like Helen seducing Max, the student who wanted to jump Noah's bones... I could go on, but why bother, I'd rather just cross this one off. No Season 4 for me.
Amen. (Meanwhile, other good/interesting shows get canceled left and right, while this thing lives on like some walking dead creature.)
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in." -- Will Rogers
Yup....something I've never done during this show, I did during tonight's finale: Play with my phone, especially during that Juliette *beep* Ugh. Awful season.
shareI actually liked the finale. I first thought the French lady (forgot her name) was so boring and served no purpose at the beginning of the season but I got a good, satisfying glimpse of her. I also liked that Noah reconciled with Whitney and his son. It was getting really played out and boring with the whole Gunther and the neck stabbing story. FINALLY some shimmer of hope that he can at least be good for his children.
shareI agree with you, I find her interesting but given that there's only ten episodes and this is the finale she was a bit of a waste.
shareI agree. Juliette's story isn't uninteresting, and Irene Jacob is a compelling actress, but why devote the entire finale to a story and character we're just not very invested in? It wasn't a bad episode of television, but it's not why we're watching the Affair. Could've been a fun detour episode, but as a finale it just falls flat.
shareI agree. Juliette's story isn't uninteresting, and Irene Jacob is a compelling actress, but why devote the entire finale to a story and character we're just not very invested in? It wasn't a bad episode of television, but it's not why we're watching the Affair. Could've been a fun detour episode, but as a finale it just falls flat.Agreed. I actually like Juliette and I thought the story with her husband was interesting and Irene Jacob is great but this felt like a mid season episode, not one for a finale (that ignored three of the main characters).
she really is a good actor. When I first started watching this show, I totally thought she was the star. They only gave her a few POVs this season, but you can tell they want to give her more. Can't wait for season 4!
You see the destruction that she-beast laid? I'm being risk-averse, considering.
Then you must have only watched S3, because she's only had two POVs, or even was in the show at all, this season.
Glad someone liked the finale. Personally, I doubt I'll ever resubscribe to Showtime again, let alone to see S4 this show.
yeah only two POVs, not sure why everyone's upset for, they're at least doing a slow evolution.
You see the destruction that she-beast laid? I'm being risk-averse, considering.
Because she's not interesting, and there has been no slow burn developing her character. There's been no build-up to her, as there has been all of the other characters. Out of nowhere, we're supposed to be invested in her, let alone have her be in the majority of the finale.
sharedon't think you're supposed to be invested in her that way. Juliette and Gunther are more related to Alison and the other main characters than this board realizes.
You see the destruction that she-beast laid? I'm being risk-averse, considering.
If you're not supposed to be invested in her, what's the point of her character? Now that you mention Gunther, I became actually invested in him, but Juliette?
So she's a professer at the same college, teaching a course on literature and courtly love. Noah and she are going to have some kind of sexual and possibly romantic thing between them. Yawn.
She goes late to his apartment to return his jacket, and to further on the possible tryst, finds him stabbed and bleeding, calls the police. This part wasn't bad, even somewhat intriguing, but it still wasn't about her as a character, or only marginally so.
She loans him her car so he can go to Montauk. Before that his sister drops him off at her house after picking him up from the hospital and he stays the night. (Zzzz.)
We learn she has a husband and a daughter back in France, and her husband has dementia, and he never loved her like he did his first wife. And? Why should we care about any of this, when we know virtually nothing about her and there's really nothing interesting about her?
Juliette and Gunther are more related to Alison and the other main characters than this board realizes.
I'm more than just plain serious haha, and always so too,
but during the first episode of this season, there was clearly two worlds being displayed. Noah's mega-drama past and Juliette's world of excitement. That's what intrigued me most about her.
You see the destruction that she-beast laid? I'm being risk-averse, considering.
I figured ;)
What's exciting about Juliette's world? Nuttin' that I can see. She's a Prof from France, and that's it.
This show's mostly about dramatic dinner parties.
Not only did Juliette have the most exciting dinner parties, but her's were actually arranged and planned out, unlike all the other dinner parties on this show that represent Noah's mega-drama past.
You see the destruction that she-beast laid? I'm being risk-averse, considering.
Agreed. Their relationship has been developing over 3 months, but we didn't see one bit of that. Did she get Noah off the drugs all by herself, did he got to rehab? What???
The only part I liked is when she told Noah that her husband made him look like an amateur when it comes to affairs. LOL. But I thought it would have fit better in her perspective than in Noah's.
That was a great line. And not allowing her daughter to have a spastic fit like Noah's kids was a win as well. And honestly, there was a lot to like about her. The finale criticisms aren't so much an attack on her but on the timing of this type of episode and the lack of continuity from episode 9. As I stated, this might have made a decent s04e01 show, but only after a good season 3 finale. This was a horrible season 3 finale.
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in." -- Will Rogers