‘The Affair’ Recap 2×09: ‘Just Like the Old Gypsy Woman Said!’
pan style="font-weight: 400;">Yes. Yes, yes, yes. This right here is the jam I’d gladly drop $40 for. Last night’s The Affair had everything you could possibly want -- Helen slaying the post-divorce life, Cole burning a house down at the behest of a ghost baby, Noah fucking up so, so bad. But the real news here is Episode 209 was, hopefully, The Affair looking itself in the mirror and realizing it’s not the sexy young thing that beat out Game of Thrones for that Best Drama Golden Globe. It stopped pretending to be a murder mystery (because, come on), it held back on the heavy symbolism, and it even did away with the differing viewpoints gimmick. We saw each of our four main players --Alison, Helen, Noah, and Cole -- in the same episode, alone, dealing with their own problems. As the storm of the damn century tore up the greater New York area, we finally saw these people for who they really are and it was a lot more entertaining than being lied to.
