Showtime's "The Affair" (Season 5)

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Originally Posted by BrandonJF

This season has been so much better than every other season. There have been times where I pushed through "The Affair." I never would've guessed I'd be staying up later to watch it as soon as Showtime made it available at midnight.

While I liked this ep....

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I did have a hard time with the double POV from one character. I'm anxious to hear what the creators have to say about what they intended. Part of me thought "Is this first POV what Allison wanted to happen?" Like the split screen sequence in "500 Days of Summer" where we see the character's ideal version of events juxtaposed with reality. But, she would've had info in that POV that she would not have had for it to be wish fulfullment (Ben's RPG story). Unless that first POV could be played simultaneously along with the second POV to see how Allison would have preferred things went.

I don't know - the thing with The Affair and the POVs is that neither version ever has to be "right". The truth is somewhere in between sometimes, even though I felt this season has been pretty straightforward (there were overlapping narratives early on, then they were abandoned until now). I still don't feel like we really "know" what happened to Allison. Especially when she should have had a head injury that seemed to have gone unacknowledged by the police in the previous episode (unless they mentioned it and wrote it off). Ben also seemingly had an airtight alibi - I'll assume that is his wife vouching for him if he really did it.

[Show spoiler]I think the first POV is in part what the old Allison would have done and possibly what she would prefer to happen. In Part2, she basically explains the nature of the show by talking about the stories we tell ourselves.