(Wilson has said in interviews that why she requested her exit, and also.) However, while this year was planned and structured around Wilson’s desire to leave the show, Wilson wasn’t nearly as absent as one might think from the action. Which makes the reveal of Alison’s death toward the end of the season a bit ironic, on top of its actual tragedy: The game-changing twist dealt near the end of Season 4 was the sort of move which reminds us that this show is a horse that’s not afraid to buck its riders.įor the record, regarding Wilson’s departure from “The Affair” is that “Ultimately, it felt like the most powerful creative decision would be to end Alison’s arc at the moment when she had finally achieved self-empowerment,” and there’s no indication that Wilson choice to leave had anything to do with unhappiness over that imbalance. That is why, 18 months ago, IndieWire turned to charts and graphs The short version of those results, post-Season 3: Rather than lean on new perspectives to become much more of an ensemble, Noah’s narrative had pretty much taken over the show over those first three years, most notably at the expense of Alison - as seen in the charts below: Entering Season 4, then, was the question of whether that pattern would continue - or if Alison might once again rise in prominence. Over the course of “The Affair’s” third season, savvy viewers might have noticed that while the series had initially been evenly split between two main characters, Alison and Noah, the decision to experiment with its format shifted things to not just include the points-of-view of Helen (Maura Tierney) and Cole (Joshua Jackson), but to - more often than not - favor Noah’s perspective. One of those frustrations had a name: Noah Solloway (played by ). The emotionally dense and complex drama has played with perspective, format, lies, and truth since the very beginning, sometimes frustrating its audience, but rarely boring them.
After four seasons, “The Affair” has been consistent in just one way: keeping viewers on their toes. Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “” Season 4.
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