The Affair Season II

by

Jorge Santa Cruz

  

Previously unseeing, the second season of The Affair has branded itself as a great TV show. Television does not leave the best for last, nor life; but everything that looked unpolished in The Affair Season I, it is beautiful now.

The Affair portraits the perfect storm of a XXI Century writer named Noah Solloway. Yes, perfect sounds great, but what if perfect is just a storm?

No human being can avoid the affair of living. Countless chaos can pour in a life— overall if one has the drive of a writer—; for most of them, chaos is a lifestyle.

The Affair Season I opens right when Noah's writing career picks up; and as it gets better, his life gets more complex in and out of his mind. Metaphorically, the show exposes the correlation between creation and chaos. The Affair will never leave Noah as its epicenter; however, the show doesn’t waste any of its characters. All are in play for the ambitious unexpected.

Helen and Allison are the two worlds that Noah will make collide on him. Helen has it all as the wife of Noah, with whom she has four children. The Affair Season I sets the viewers in a background full of sex clichés for the chain of events that will follow; in other words, Helen underestimates the gravity of keeping all together as the cause of immeasurable effects.

In Allison there is something not quite digestive about this character in the first season. Something is wrong with the way she holds her lips together, something paranoid, not sensual at all, that catches Noah's attention; that's where The Affair's plot enters in full swing.

The Affair is a puzzled, subjective narrative, told by each of its characters. While the narrative is linear, the narration is not. It creates a very well crafted suspense of effects looking for its causes.

In The Affair Season II the camera close-up gets closer to the characters, and the photography better with each episode as the characters adjust better to their skin.

The best line of the show, "You know what Noah: you are a fucking tourist," comes at the end of the second season when Noah understands he is a strange to his own life.

For the viewer—not a spoiler—, what is strange in the first season is beautifully painful in the second season; there will be The Affair Season III in 2016.

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