The song that played over the end credits, in case you were wondering: Angus and Julia Stone's "Big Jet Plane". A brother/sister duo this time, instead of last week's married couple.
As for the episode itself... when I watched this the first time around, back when it first aired, I think I was so hung up on the show's central gimmick that I was unable to look beyond its surface implications. When I think about unreliable narrators, my first association is one of mendacity, inadvertent or deliberate. The name of the concept does have a distinct negative slant to it, like there's nothing to it beyond the idea that people will lie, to themselves and/or others. I think this episode, even more so than the premiere, gives the lie (sorry) to that assumption. The Affair seems to be just as interested in exploring the ways in which we are much more than the limited and slanted ways in which we view ourselves. Just as much as the show has these characters betray themselves through their own points of view, it also vindicates and lauds them through the eyes of others. Though I know that lies and self-deception is going to keep being a major theme of the show, I do wholly appreciate that it's not the sum total of what The Affair is about.
Review by GranitoroVIP 6BlockedParent2020-05-17T04:05:21Z
The song that played over the end credits, in case you were wondering: Angus and Julia Stone's "Big Jet Plane". A brother/sister duo this time, instead of last week's married couple.
As for the episode itself... when I watched this the first time around, back when it first aired, I think I was so hung up on the show's central gimmick that I was unable to look beyond its surface implications. When I think about unreliable narrators, my first association is one of mendacity, inadvertent or deliberate. The name of the concept does have a distinct negative slant to it, like there's nothing to it beyond the idea that people will lie, to themselves and/or others. I think this episode, even more so than the premiere, gives the lie (sorry) to that assumption. The Affair seems to be just as interested in exploring the ways in which we are much more than the limited and slanted ways in which we view ourselves. Just as much as the show has these characters betray themselves through their own points of view, it also vindicates and lauds them through the eyes of others. Though I know that lies and self-deception is going to keep being a major theme of the show, I do wholly appreciate that it's not the sum total of what The Affair is about.