I’ve been saving this until I got on my laptop, but then kept forgetting so I’m gonna rant using my phone.

So with S5, two storylines took place, one in the present day - or at least a little bit into the future, which focused on Noah and Helen. Then the second storyline is set decades into the future and focused on an adult Joanie Lockhart and Cole is dead in this storyline.

Now here is for the ranty bit. This season just further shits on Cole, Alison, Cole and Alison AND Ruth Wilson!

First of all, Joanie Lockhart is just an unlikable character, her personality seems to be defined by the fact that Alison “killed herself” when she was a kid. She barely shows any emotion about her dad. And her storyline is about her trying to find the truth about Alison.

She is the one who learns the truth about Alison’s death and confronts Ben, who threatens her and scares her and makes the police believe that she’s a mental patient of his.

Then they shit on Cole/Alison’s relationship and Cole himself. When Joanie tells Noah that Alison was murdered, Noah is all Cole was right he always thought she was murdered because he’d never leave Joanie. And Joanie tells Noah that Cole told her that Alison killed herself, that he tried to save her but he couldn’t and that they are better off without her.

Fuck that made me mad. Cole should have learnt the truth and would not give up believing that she didn’t kill herself.

Oh and to top it all off, the show ends with Ben getting away with killing Alison. No Justice is served. And fuck Sarah Treeme, the EPs — they said the reason that Alison didn’t get justice for being killed was because it “wasn’t their story to tell.” Fuck that. This whole show is your story, at no point is it not their story, they introduced and made the decision that she would get murdered. It was THEIR story. And I don’t care what anyone says but the only reason Alison never got justice was because it was a big Fuck You to Ruth Wilson.

Now, let’s move onto the Helen and Noah stuff. Fuck. I’ve been saying for years that this has become the Noah show, that the EPs have had a massive hard on for Dominic West and Noah Solloway since S2, it was cemented by S3 when that French LI got a POV — Autymn has heard me say this for years. And this season was clearly all about Noah once again, but this time trying to redeem Noah and make him worthy of a happy ending.

But it fails. He still gets a happy ending. One he doesn’t deserve. Noah is still unlikable throughout the season and only gets a little bit likeable in the last few episodes but it feels so forced. He’s still an asshole in S5 and nothing can erase the past 4 seasons of assholery.

And the ending is BS, making Helen and Noah endgame. They are a toxic ship, bringing out the worse in each other. Noah doesn’t even deserve Helen and the writers must hate Helen if they put her back with Noah. Honestly it’s just bollocks because Helen’s entire arc throughout the show is about her never actually moving on from Noah, while Noah just remains being an class A fuckboy.

Oh, and they described Cole and Alison as a doomed fairytale. Fuck now. That bond that they had was too special that there was nothing doomed about it because they always would have ended up back together. They had the more interesting history. Meanwhile Helen and Noah literally had no bond apart from being addicted to each other.

The Affair is just about rich white privilege. Rich white assholes. I mean after the first two seasons, the show started to focus less on Cole/Alison, Alison THE FEMALE LEAD, The Lockharts and focused way WAY more on Noah, Helen and The Solloways. The most unlikable parts of the show.

I’ve never seen a show where the writers and EPs are so disconnected with the fans and what is popular with audiences.

That’s me done. I’m out.

Signed,

#RuthWilsonDeservedBetter