The Affair: A Lotta Noah and Helen in Season 5 Debut

and a little bit of Joanie. The first episode (8/25/2019) of the fifth season of The Affair jumped around quite a bit. It began with Noah at a meeting with a movie star named Sasha Mann who is going to star in and direct a film adaptation of Noah’s book “Descent.” While Sasha picked Noah’s brain about the book, one of two young girls sitting nearby kept giving Noah the eye. The girls got up and approached the table. The one who was eyeballing Noah asked Sasha if she could give him her phone number because she loves him. She wants Sasha to call her so she can show him just how much. This was funny just because it must have been quite a blow to Noah’s self-esteem. The other parts of the show that he was in was about him butting in where he was not wanted.

Noah cut the meeting short to go to Vik’s funeral with his girlfriend, Janelle. Why would those two go to Vik’s funeral? Don’t ask us. But Janelle got a real sense of her insignificance back at Helen’s house when Noah paid very little attention to her and when Helen’s mother got catty when introduced, saying it was nice to meet another one of Noah’s women! The last straw came when Helen’s father mistook for her the help. Did Noah go after his lady love? Hell no. He stuck around to clean up and watch Vik’s video message to those he left behind and get a good sense of his insignificance. Vik knew that Noah’s daughter Whitney was getting married but Noah didn’t. Vik talked about what a wonderful relationship he had with Noah’s children, unlike their relationship with their real father.

The last segment of the show was about Vik actually dying at home at the same time the next-door neighbor Sierra was having his child at her house. This was supposed to be about Helen but who shows up unexpectedly? Why, Noah, of course. The kids are staying with him and Noah says they want to come back and say their goodbyes to Vik. Well, there’s no time for that because the hospice nurse called Helen in as the end was imminent. As she watched Vik, Noah suddenly knocked on the door and asked to come in. Helen said no but then she heard a baby crying. Noah had Sierra and the baby with him. Sierra put the baby boy on Vik’s chest, told him the baby’s name is Eddie, and Vik died. The nurse said he knew (hopefully about the baby and not that Noah was in the room).

The Joanie part came in between those two parts and took place in the future. Joanie, who was about 6 years old when last seen, is now grown up and married and the mother of two kids. We know that one, at least, is adopted. About all I got out of this part was that Joanie is a very unhappy woman. She is going to be the same age on her next birthday that Alison was when she died. Joanie misses Cole, although we don’t really know what happened to him yet. Well, that’s not all. She lives in a “smart” house and has a great husband. She has anxiety medicine and ignores the instructions on the bottle to only take one.

Selected Cast:
Dominic West – Noah Solloway
Maura Tierney – Helen Solloway
Omar Metwally – Dr. Vic Ullah
Julia Goldani Telles – Whitney Solloway
Anna Paquin – Joanie Lockhart
Sanaa Lathan – Janelle Wilson
Emily Browning – Sierra
Claes Bang – Sasha Mann