Showtime’s The Affair returns to Montauk for its final season, to a preview decktop screening at Gurney’s. With the drizzle and ocean breezes, fans felt right at home with the first episode: Helen (the remarkable Maura Tierney) ministers to both the death of Vic (Omar Metwally) and the birth of his son, Ed. Noah (a quizzical Dominic West) lends a helping hand. And in mini segments Noah discusses the film of his roman-a-clef, Descent, with its star; Joanie Lockheart (Anna Paquin), at a moment in the future, deals with family and missing her mother and father. The question is, do we miss them too?
Can the show survive the losses? Funerals do bring out the worst. But judging from its season debut, all looks promising for the end of The Affair’s high concept drama, with only a suggestion that some satiric moments—Helen’s mother’s (Kathleen Chalfant) outbursts, for example, or scenes of a new age home birth—may just be unintentionally hilarious.
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