In The Affair, It’s Complicated—Maybe Too Complicated
(Episode 3.03)
Showtime
I still can’t believe the end of Noah’s story in the first episode wasn’t a hallucination. Someone please explain this!
This week’s episode begins back at the student dinner at Julliette’s house.
It turns out that while they’re discussing consent, the hot, young boy comes into the kitchen and makes out with Juliette while she tells him to stop. (Meanwhile, the young girl who just gave a long talk about consent admits she really wants to have sex with Professor Solloway.)
Juliette is almost as tragic as Alison. Her father is sick and she drinks a lot. When the kids finally go home for the evening, she realizes that Noah’s left his coat. She finds his address and goes to his house—and there he is bleeding on the floor. She saves his life.
Here, we start to see Noah’s memories through his unconscious dreams.
The guard, played by Encino Man Brendan Frasier, is in prison, and says he knew Noah in school. I get the feeling, since Noah doesn’t remember him, that this guy was kind of a loser. At any rate, he reads his book and then decides to give Noah a typewriter.