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Last season on The Affair, it was all about Noah (Dominic West) and Alison’s (Ruth Wilson) perspectives each hour, but tonight at 10p on Showtime they change everything up.
Tonight’s season premiere takes place about a month after Noah told his wife, Helen (Maura Tierney), that he was having an affair. He has moved in Alison and his mother-in-law moved in with his estranged wife. Their 4 kids are not handling their parents’ impending divorce very well and neither is Helen.
The two of them want to end their marriage as quickly and painlessly as possible, so they are seeing a mediator. And this is how the show differs from last season. Last year, it was half Noah’s story and half Alison’s, tonight’s episode is half Noah’s and half Helen’s. Next week, it is half Alison’s and half Cole’s (Joshua Jackson), her soon-to-be-ex-husband. A change that I think works better for the award winning drama.
One thing that doesn’t change, each perspective ends in the modern day and Noah’s arrest.
With all the changes, I can’t wait to see how the ramifications of the affair play out.
Ray Donovan is back on Showtime tonight at 9p and there is going to be a lot of change. Someone is going to die before the episode ends and that will really effect things for Ray (Liev Schreiber). Meanwhile his dad, Mickey (Jon Voight), will get himself involved in a new business venture. One that he will eventually need his son’s help to get him out of trouble. Because that is just how the Donovans roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2CiEyPVvDU
Then at 10p, it’s time for Masters of Sex and they are getting ready to release their book. Before it’s release, the Masters and the Johnsons go on a family vacation together. While at the cabin, Virgina (Lizzy Caplan) gets some shocking news that has her running back to her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Dr Masters (Michael Sheen) is trying to finalize things on the book, but everyone keeps distracting him.
Once they get back into reality, Virgina gets some news that will complicate everything. How will they handle it? More importantly will you be able to handle all of the sex??? You just have to watch the show that is the master of sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjUJ-WgjNs
After 6 successful seasons and multiple Emmys, Nurse Jackie (Edie Falco) begins her 7th and final season on Showtime tonight at 9p.
Last season ended with her getting in a car accident on her way to Miami and her pills flying all over the car. When the cops check on her, they see the pills and arrest her. Now she will face the ramifications for her actions.
She is forced into a rapid detox and now she is clean. But will she stay that way? Especially since now that she’s been arrested, Grace (Ruby Jerins) won’t let work as a nurse. She is literally cleaning the sh!t up all over the place. Not only that, she has to get pee tested every day by Zoey (Merritt Wever). Neither one of them are happy about it.
To make matters worse, it looks like All Saints is going to be sold and turned into condos.
Jackie will do everything in power to become a nurse again and save the hospital while trying to remain sober.
Will it be the end of her? You will just have to tune in for the next 12 weeks to find out. You don’t want to miss a single second of this addicting series’ final season.
Noah Solloway (Dominic West) is a happily married to Helen (Maura Tierney), they have four children and he’s a NYC teacher whose life about to change on a summer family trip to his father-in-law’s in Montauk, NY. Tonight at 10p on Showtime he begins The Affair with Alison Lockhart (Ruth Wilson) whose married to Cole Lockhart (Joshua Jackson) and they recently lost a kid.
For the first half hour, we will hear Noah’s story on how he met his mistress. Then for the second part of the show we find out how Alison remembers it. They each tell their tales to a cop. Why they are there we will find out soon, but what happened will come later so we will have to tune in ever week to find out.
A few weeks ago at the Showtime TCA Summer Press Tour Day Sarah Treem explained why the series is told as a he said/she said.
Oh, it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t think it lessens the experience to know going in. I mean, we’re really interested in telling a story in a kind of Rashmomon structure, because I think storytelling in general is driven by perspective, and there are two sides at least, to every story. And so we wanted to tell a story that was going to kind of capitalize on a different perspective, and so we were thinking about how to structure a story like that, and we thought a love affair would be the way to do it. And then, and an affair seemed to be kind of like a love affair on steroids. So when you’re having an affair, you’re you know, you’re never privy to what your lover is thinking, even if you’re married to them. But when you’re having an affair, you don’t even have access to what your lover is experiencing when you’re not around. There’s this whole other world that they inhabit that you never get to see. So for the characters, that felt like kind of the richest situation to put them in if we really wanted to tell a story from two perspectives and really kind of play around to like how differently people can experience the same situation.
Adding – There will be a point in the series where you start to see another perspective, and you could perhaps assume that that perspective was the absolute truth, but I think that perspective will turn out to be unreliable as well. I mean, I don’t think about it so much as unreliability. I just think about it as perspective. There will be times where their perspectives match much more closely as we go farther than they’re lining up right now, because they’re going back to basically the beginning now. The way I sort of thought about it is sort of an epic storytelling structure where we start in the middle and then we go back to the beginning and then we push through all the way to the end. So we’ll get closer basically to the paths will crash into the present at one point.
Showtime has been keeping a secret that no one saw coming and today they revealed that they are bringing back Twin Peaks for 9 episodes in 2016. Why then? It will be 25 years since the show that captivated America ended its first run on TV back in 1991. What has happened in the past quarter of a century? We will just have to tune in to find out in about a year and a half.
If you are like me and have had heard about this show and yet you’ve never seen it, then you will be happy to know that Showtime will air the first two seasons before their limited series airs.
To fans of the show, you will be happy to know that David Lynch and Mark Frost will be back to write and produce all nine episodes. Now when it comes to which actors will be back, you will just have to stay tuned. But I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of familiar faces back in Twin Peaks.
