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Is this show jumping the shark?


Seriously, just finished 1st episode of Season 3 and I ask myself 'what did I just watch'? Looks like now that we know 'who done it', writers don't know what to do with the show.

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No. I think the show is stronger than ever tbh. As the show continue to find its footing and know its characters better, I think this could easily be the best season yet.

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It seems to me you did not watch any first seasons before. My God

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Me too windkirby.

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I, too, think it's better than ever.

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Excellent episode. Restored my faith in the show. Only disappointed we didn't see Cole.




"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" --Leonard Cohen

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Don't care what you guys say but that was a terrible episode to start the season.

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Each to their own. I loved it. Feel some people are getting a little too precious about everything.

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I think the show became boring and unwatchable, Helen's story is so generic. I miss the total Long Island setting, but do like Alison's story.

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Their nitch is to change it up each season. It hasn't jumped the shark and people have said that even in season one. It's different.

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how could it jump the shark? you already had to suspend most disbelief to get this far. that's what is hard to understand. this should not have been a murder given the circumstances, which they clearly showed us at the end of 2. if it didn't jump the shark then, it never will.

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I thought I was watching How To Get Away with Murder. I *beep* hate when a show starts in media res with someone getting killed and we have to wait until the season finale to see who did it.
I want to see the story of an affair, not a who-dun-it. The show is called The Affair, ffs!

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I dont think people here understand what "jumped the shark" mean.

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I posted this a few days ago: Read some of the other threads. To summarize: Noah is suffering PTSD from being raped in prison, possibly by the prison guard. It shows why he is so maladjusted now that he is free. The issue of rape and fear of rape comes up several times. He cannot perform with the French woman.

In the final seconds he is viscously attacked, by whom? The Guard who was tailing him? Does the guard fear being exposed by this famous writer? It was actually a very good episode.

It is still about The Affair. How much better off everyone would everyone be if there had been no affair.

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This explains it. But I'm not sure how u can get the whole storyline from that single episode I can't even see Brendan Frasier powering over him.

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Rape is about power, not sex. The guard has all the power to do as he pleases. Not only would it be hard to report an offense, the huge humiliation, and this goes for males and females, would outweigh the need to report. Can you imagine how shocked and horrified Noah would have been. Overpowering Noah would have been easy with help or threats.

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Actually, I think Noah would use his "prison rape experience" to garner a book and movie deal. It would make him even more famous and notorious. It's not like he's been demure about exploiting salacious details of his life in his fiction. But that will probably come later in Season 3. 

I have a friend who thinks the entire series is taking place in a writer's imagination, and the different viewpoints of the same events are the author rewriting scenes to see which works better in his novel.

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Ha ha. Well said. However, his book Descent caused a lot of embarrassment especially for Allison. It helped ruin her relationship with Noah when she was depicted in the book as a piece of meat and ruined her reputation in her hometown. It was so humiliating for her. If Noah goes that route again, he will really be selling his soul. Noah should get a real job.

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