AUGUST 25 - 31, 2019 staradvertiser.com END OF ‘ ‘THE AFFAIR The fi fth and fi nal season of The Affair is here. While the departure of Ruth Wilson and Joshua Jackson means lots of change for this fi nal run, we also know that cliffhangers will be resolved, and fans will be treated to a satisfying ending. Anna Paquin joins the cast as a grown-up Joanie. Premiering Sunday, Aug. 25, on Showtime. SHOOT AMAZING VIDEOS. LEARN FROM THE PROS. Let our professional instructors teach you how to light, shoot, edit and add titles to create incredible videos. Our classes are available year-round, right in your neighborhood. To sign up, visit olelo.org/training olelo.org ON THE COVER | THE AFFAIR Loved and lost ‘The Affair’ resolves the Solloway, played by Dominic West (“The tell you what the show has gained. Yet an- departure of a major Wire”). Noah is a writer and a school teacher other decorated actor from film and televi- with what most would consider the per- sion has joined the cast: Anna Paquin (“True character in its final season fect family: he has four beautiful children Blood”) plays the grown-up version of Alison with his wife and first love, but, and Cole’s daughter, Joanie. Now to the losses. The aforementioned By Kenneth Andeel of course, all is not as rosy as it cliffhanger was about as big as they TV Media seems. While both lead char- acters are sympathetic, they get for a television show: Alison was found dead after an apparently suc- ne of Showtime’s award-winning are also deeply flawed, and cessful suicide, but in the penulti- prestige dramas is coming to an end. neither is a particularly reliable mate episode of the season, it was OOn Sunday, Aug. 25, the fifth and final narrator. revealed that she had actually been season of “The Affair” kicks off, and this Two television veterans make murdered. The sad details of Alison’s conclusion promises to resolve the cliff- up the supporting backbone of the life and death are sure to affect all of the hangers of Season 4 and reward fans who series: Joshua Jackson (“Fringe”) characters in a big way in Season have been loyal to the series for five years played Alison’s husband, 5, but a grown-up Joanie will with satisfying closure. Cole, and Noah’s be especially interesting “The Affair” began as a relatively focused long-suffering wife, to watch. Whether the experiment that told the story of an illicit Helen, is played crime will be solved re- relationship between two married individu- by Maura Tierney mains to be seen. als and the consequences of said affair. The (“ER”). Both strug- Killing off a lead char- show used multiple character perspectives, gled hard to keep acter is obviously a huge flashbacks and flashforwards to unfurl the their respective risk for a show to take, drama, and it established early on that none marriages alive, but in this particular of the main characters were reliable narra- but the flash- case, it was unavoid- tors. It was suspenseful and subtle, and ini- forwards reveal able: Wilson asked to tially the story of “The Affair” was designed early on that leave the show, so the to be contained in a single season. The suc- things never get writers were forced cess of the experiment led to renewal after back to normal for to find a way for Alison renewal, and here we are five seasons later. the jilted spouses. to disappear. Thanks The show boasts an impressive cast, Fans are in for some to the myriad of ques- and the ensemble is one of the reasons major changes this sea- tionable and self-de- the series works so well. The series was son, but before I tell you structive decisions the built around the story of waitress Alison about the losses, let me character has made Lockhart, played by Ruth Wilson (“Jane over the course of the Eyre,” 2006). Alison was in a dark place Maura Tierney stars in “The series, there were likely after the loss of her child and made up one Affair” a lot of options. half of the titular affair — the other is Noah 2 STAR CHANNELS August 25 - 31, 2019 BEST BETS Sunday Later, Dud and Liz (Sonya Cassidy) spend (Simon Kassianides) reels from McGann’s time with a woman from their father’s past. (Wayne Duvall) revelation. 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