Ruth Wilson Gossip

For our final episode of the year and the decade, we’re diving into the mailbag and many of you have written to us about all the drama that happened behind the scenes on The Affair. Last week, The Hollywood Reporter told the story of why Ruth Wilson left The Affair after pushing back Full Story

Raise your hand if you knew Idris Elba as DCI Luther before you knew him as Stringer Bell. I can’t be the only one. Elba was Stringer Bell first, but Luther was his breakout role, the thing that made him everyone’s favorite leading man and the once and future Bond. On January 1 he’s back with a fifth series of Luther, and this time Ruth Wilson is also returning as Alice Morgan. Full Story

The Affair, Season 4.   My feeling at the end of Season 4 of The Affair, beyond that it was bleak, and beyond the Ruth Wilson Cryptogram, was that we now officially have less than we started with.  That is, for all the risks they took and all the passion and romance that fuelled Noah and Helen and Cole and Alison all this time, none of them, at the end of this season, has any love to speak of, after all that. Full Story

The Affair, Season 3 Episode 1 and 2 recap  I would imagine there is significant overlap between the people who watch The Affair and a certain other show that is about the intimate wonderful terrible ways of family. I felt like a few days of distance would help us to process Gilmore a little more, and meanwhile, The Affair is here as a nice, light palate cleanser. Full Story

Not quite the same flow as Nick & Norah. By the way, if you read Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the Dash & Lily sequel, The Twelve Days Of Dash & Lily, comes out in October. So. Joshua Jackson and Ruth Wilson. Of The Affair. And Joshua is freshly single after a decade with Diane Kruger. Full Story

I am a highly suggestible person where schools and universities are concerned. So this episode guarantees that I will be making an excuse to visit Williams College as soon as possible. It’s official now that Helen-and-Noah episodes are by far my favourite kinds of The Affair episodes. It took me a second to figure out why, but I think it’s twofold. Full Story

The Affair Season 2 Episode 6 recap One of the reasons this show is so incredible is that the stuff that makes up an episode is only important in the lives of our characters. Such day-to-day happenings.  My kid was sick, we were kind of worried, he’s better now. I went to a retreat with my mom. Full Story

The Affair Season 2 Episode 5 recap  (Lainey: a quick note before Duana starts analysing the latest episode…because she would never tell you this herself. Sarah Treem is the showrunner of The Affair. And this is what she tweeted last week: Whoever is writing this deeply understands our show. Full Story

The Affair Season 2 Episode 3 recap I snarked on Twitter early in the episode that Noah is terrible even in his own memory. I was amused by myself actually. But then I realized that it’s true. That he’s actually nicer in Alison’s memory than in his own. Actually, so is Whitney. Full Story

I really loved watching The Affair – but I didn’t enjoy it. I know that sounds contradictory, but there wasn’t much to celebrate and love. That was a bleak show.  But I loved it - maybe in a more ‘craft-driven’ way than I expected. The show was least interesting when it was actually focusing on The Affair itself, and much more interesting when it was focusing on whatever Alison and Noah were running away from. Full Story

Man oh man, is it good to be The Hollywood Reporter this year. That is, they’re doing what they always do - including the actresses who are most likely to get an Emmy nomination or to be discussed if they don’t get an Emmy nomination – but these women are the most interesting we’ve had in years. Full Story