Not exact matches
According to preliminary Nielsen data, Tuesday night's
episode averaged 15.2 million viewers and a 3.9 rating, and while that marks a 25 percent decline in the demo, that 3.9 also
represents the
season's third - highest delivery for a scripted broadcast show.
The Affair,
Season 1,
Episode 8: Distracted by her burgeoning small business, Helen tasks Noah with
representing the family at a literary award ceremony for her father, Bruce.
The new
episodes don't
represent another radical leap forward in style or quality the way
season two was, but whatever's lost from the shock of the new (nothing here is quite as weird or surprising as the cavewoman prologue or «International Assassin,» though a joke in the second
episode and a party sequence in the fifth come close) is gained in how much more we know all the characters at this point, and how aware they are of their proximity to their story's end.
In most good HBO shows (The Wire and The Sopranos to name two), the penultimate
episode of each
season — and not the last —
represents the best one.
Nineteen of the
season's twenty
episodes are
represented here in unused material that's often every bit as funny as what made it onto the air.