Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sundays series finale ofThe Affair.
The time to end the relationship has come.
If were going to die and not come back together what point does that serve?
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That was how I was feeling as I was listening to them.
That seemed to be the way we were headed.
Even at the beginning of the season, they werent sure what was going to happen.
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I liked what she chose, but it couldve gone a number of different ways.
I just think she just fell for him and never un-fell for him.
Helen says in that motel scene that everything shes been through has made her stronger.
She committed a crime.
Shes certainly a lot more flawed, but I think these characters change really incrementally like real people do.
Its hard to change.
We touch on that but I dont think that changes.
I dont think thats where she ended up.
To always keep trying isnt something thats a bad thing.
In a lot of ways, this final season really felt like Helens season.
She finally gets to fully realize who she is and what she wants.
I think youve kind of hit the nail on the head.
He loves to tell his side of the story.
He didnt see it then.
But he does now, he gets it.
And he ends it all by dancing on a cliff!
I just want to touch briefly on the final scene.
Everybody kept saying in terms of feedback for the season,havent you put Noah through enough?
Just give the man a break.
He can go through all this because hes the last one standing.
I always knew I wanted that for him.
I wanted him to be at peace at the end, content with his life.
We were freezing and the cast and crew were exhausted.
Im really proud of what happened at the end.
Maura, for you, that adds another character to play: Helen as seen by her daughter.
How was that experience?TIERNEY:That was my favorite one and I think weve done six.
I really loved that.
I felt like in some of the reviews they were just losing that.
I think it was strongly written that it was from the P.O.V.
of a 22-year-old and that was her seeing her middle-aged mother throwing herself on the cross for it.
I dont think that necessarily means thats what my character was doing.
Your children learn from you.
They learn from the dynamics that youre representing.
So when you see a relationship that your child has to themselves suddenly you understand what youve taught them.
For such a long time your parents are just figures and archetypes in your life and your own journey.
Im glad that Maura spoke to that.
This idea that children carry their parents trauma forward with them is fascinating.
Were never really seeing the totality of another person.
Those relationships are so intimate and sacred to us.
Could she stop a cycle of trauma now that she had that gift of awareness?
And its all a ripple effect of the original affair.TREEM:Yes.
So Ill miss that.
TREEM:I will miss a lot.
I obviously love the actors.
Maura and Dom are just the height of their craft.
I do not have enough superlatives to talk about how good they are.
You never see them work theyre obviously working, but I never see it.
They just come to set, they know all their lines.
I will miss the cast and crew.
A lot of them are old friends of mine our costume designer and I went to college together.
I will most of all miss our writers room.
The people Im writing this show just became such a family by the end of it.
I will definitely miss that group telling this story.
My feeling about this final season is that we left it all on the field.
For me, there wasnt that much left to say.
