What’s going on with The Affair?
I’ve loved this show, so much so that I’ve watched four seasons in about a month, pretty good going I reckon. But between the sudden death of a key character and rumours of another main character leaving in the next and final season, I’ve been left wondering what’s happened to The Affair? “I was screaming into the canyon, At the moment of my death, e echo I created, Outlasted my last breath…” wails Fiona Apple again in the opening tune, burrowing back into your head, and signifying another season – the fourth – of e A air .
We le it – you may remember if you stuck with it (and it was easy to become unstuck in the third season) – with Noah Solloway (Dominic West) in Paris with his new French lady, searching for redemption and for his eldest daughter who had run o with an abusive older man. Now we are back in Montauk, New York. Noah is using a payphone at a gas station. He hangs up and tells Cole (Joshua Jackson) that “she” has been missing for 72 hours now. She, Alison (Ruth Wilson) has disappeared… new season, new mystery. e nature of Ruth Wilson’s unexpected and seemingly abrupt exit from e A air is proving to be as entangling a mystery as the series itself. Wilson’s character, Alison, was killed o on e A air, , toward the end of season 4, at rst apparently by way of suicide, though it was later revealed that foul play was involved. Making the rounds a while back to promote the feature lm e Little Stranger, Wilson has been asked about her unexpected departure from the Golden Globewinning role. She told CBS’s is Morning that while she once noted that co-star Dominic West makes more money than she does, she “never complained to Showtime about the pay parity”. She then said that she is “not allowed to talk about why” she chose to leave the series, adding “there is a much bigger story.” Now another actor is reportedly on the way out: Joshua Jackson. Reportedly Jackson will likely not return as Alison’s ex-husband Cole Lockhart in the drama’s h and nal season. e series is still trying to gure out where Cole’s story should go next, as well as how to wrap it up as the series approaches its nale. So it would appear that a er dedicating all that time to this show, I’m going to be le with a sub-par nale and really the tale of the cast of e A air has become far more interesting than the show itself. e A air (all four seasons available on Now TV)