The Affair (TV Series) Episode #3.10 (2017) User Reviews

The French woman's reasons

[dierregi · 6/10 · 28 January 2018]

Finally we get the point of Juliette's story and at least this show's finale is set in Paris. Juliette is also very good with lying to herself and others, but we finally get a clear explanation of her fractured relationship with her sick husband.

Her cheating, which might have seemed callous, is actually the emotional revenge of a woman who never felt much loved and was disrespected by her husband. We just see him at the end of his life, but we get the situation: a successful teacher, breaking his students' hearts and collecting indiscretions.

Unfortunately, despite the idyllic settings, Noah and Juliette seem to be living two completely different stories. Also daughter Whitney is back with a vengeance.

Definitely the most annoying character of the cast, Whitney distributes smug judgements, even if she already collected a long list of indiscretions herself. She is realistic enough, being a self-centred, rich, spoiled kid doing one stupid thing after the other and expecting her parents to clean up the mess.

Despite the good start, the episode - and this series - ends with a major downer. Was it worth spending three years in jail for that?

Started to grate with me at times .

[timbmorris276 · 6/10 · 11 November 2020]

Great first 2 seasons , then as season 3 progresses even the most loved characters come across at times rather irritating and pathetic , Helen has always been a pain in the ass and more so this season , potential bunny boiler material , Whitney has always been a bit nails down the chalkboard , screech !! Hoping this improves after the twee season end .

What a bummer

[edodas-59026 · 2/10 · 16 September 2018]

What on earth happened in the mind of the writers of the last part of Episode 10 (Noah)? How could they turn a reasonibly good third season of this show into a Disney Christmas tale? All is well that ends well.... Daughter back home, Vik has returned, Juliette is free of her marital obligations and Noah is the stable character he once was...... And all this ends at the Christmas tree..... What a pity.

What´s missing?

[zimmerblitz · 3/10 · 31 January 2021]

That´s what i was- and still am- asking myself. I even put back in the previous DVD to check if i had missed an episode, since it came as quite the surprise to suddenly find a sober and healthy Noah with Juliette in Paris. When did this happen? I was expecting this to be explained during the episode. Or be told that it was - yet again- all just in Noah´s head. So I guess we might be coming back to these matters in Season 4. Are we ? Since I rented all of them I guess I will actually watch them- even if I have become quite disenchanted with the show. What started as a well made and nice to watch study of human behavior and relations, with terrific performances from everyone, has, in my opinion turned into a hard to bear repeating of the same mistakes over and over again. Sometimes there is such a thing as being to realistic in doing a TV Show or a movie. Being to repetitive for sure. Sadly this is the case here. This is just saying that "yes- people do behave like this- but do we want to watch them doing it- again and again ?" Especially Whitney is unbearable, and I often wished that someone would run her over with a car- or at least punch her in the face to make her shut up. But again- very realistically portrayed what happens when you bring children up like that. Since nothing she does is in any way different to what her parents do. And not taking responsibility- but instead Advil- is what we see Helen- and everyone else for that matter- do. Apart from Vikram Ullah who drinks instead. A common practice among surgeons- as he explained. What a great country indeed. So, on we go to Season 4 to find out how Noah Solloway escaped his addiction- and ended up in Paris. Or not ??!?. Sigh! And P.S.: Why is there a reference to Scott Lockhart´s death as "murder" on the DVD box-cover? And in the dialogues. Surely Noah would not have gotten out of prison after a mere three years if this had been the case. The distinction between the possible charges was quite well made previously in the show. This somehow got dropped completely obviously in order for others to more strongly shun Noah for "being a criminal" or "having killed a person". Even his own children take that stance. Something that seems to be at the core of the American psyche: judging others- by criteria that stem from a time long ago, and best forgotten. It was an accident. And even if it was ruled to be vehicular manslaughter- or vehicular homicide- it is far apart from being murder. Twisting a story in that way should be treated as "negligent behavior " or" writing with intend"- I think.