I'm still struggling to get past that stuff too. I keep thinking about the irony that I would have happily accepted that Noah is a famous writer of a great book if it was just presented to me as a fact. (Dom West's a good enough actor to sell it). But what's made it all so impossible to believe are all the moments…

I really loved the Marty McFly-ian moment of Joey Ramone watching as the Nasty Bits perform a mall punk cover of a song that doesn't yet exist. ("Hey, Johnny. It's me. I think I found that sound you've been looking for!') I'm readying myself for the late-season reveal where we learn that 2016 Mick Jagger has been…

So Marguerite Phillips is my new hero. Wow. I can't count how many times I rewound this season just to identify or relisten to a song. I'm loving how thoughtful and deliberate she and Noah H. were about the musical choices. Yeah, I just wish this conversation had continued. So many more questions. Wish she'd…

Ha ha. Sure, ell. But my problem is I get this awful feeling that, within the bizarro world of the Affair, Noah is supposed to be an objectively talented writer. (The show goes out of its way to reinforce this in scene after scene, this time with all the Roth and Franzen nonsense). There are questions about his…

For the love of god, could the producers please hire a credible fiction writer to pinch hit when they render Noah's riveting prose? Any time characters quote from his novel or even just describe it I can't believe for a moment that anyone anywhere would be remotely interested in this dummy and his terribly written…