<p>I am addicted to this show. Thoughts/theories? Is the plot “real life” or is it actually Noah’s book?</p>
<p>Shucks, @snowdog. I thought you were going to tell us you’re having one. </p>
<p>Oh my gosh, I did not think of it being Noah’s book, but now that you say it, I can see it. I am going to be seriously disappointed if that is the case.</p>
<p>I just started watching and am only on the second episode. Looking forward to coming back here when I get further in. So far it looks really good. </p>
<p>@snowdog I hadn’t thought of that. Like @amarylandmom I will be disappointed if that is the case.</p>
<p>I also hope that some of the big questions are answered in the season finale. And that the next season will be about other characters’ affairs? </p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s Noah’s book but I, too, will be disappointed if that is the case. I can’t imagine it all being resolved in the finale on Sunday. My guess is that it will continue in a second season, with the investigation/charges/trial. I thought this past Sunday’s episode was very good! It’s difficult to like either of them, to be honest.</p>
<p>Lol @VeryHappy. ^ yes it’s been renewed alwaysamom.</p>
<p>The reason I think it may be Noah’s book is the thing about how the detective’s background changed (he has twins/he doesn’t or something like that). It seemed like a clue. Like Noah is rewriting perhaps. </p>
<p>I hate myself for getting addicted to this one! They make me sick but I can’t stop watching.</p>
<p>^^^ Ha, I was waiting for someone to say this. I find myself in a love/hate relationship with this show. The characters are hard to like!</p>
<p>Oh I agree. Noah is especially loathsome. I find a strange admiration developing for the much-reviled Oscar. He seems to be several steps ahead of them all in the brains department. </p>
<p>Snowdog, such a clever observation about the police officer. I was wondering about his inconsistency myself, but had chalked it up to him trying to better relate to the person he was interrogating.</p>
<p>What do you think now???</p>
<p>The next to last scene at the ranch was so so different between Noah and Allison’s perspective that now I think these are the stories they are telling the officer, and they diverge because one or both are lying or unreliable narrators.</p>
<p>Oooh - sounds interesting, I haven’t had a chance to watch, will do it tonight!! Was busy listening to “Serial” last night.</p>
<p>I keep hearing about Serial! Need to check it out soon.</p>
<p>It is rather uncomfortable to like this show! Noah is despicable and yet you follow his trail slowly one step at a time and see how he has allowed himself to follow this rabbit trail of self-destruction. I find it fascinating to see things shown from the two perspectives, I love when shows do this. I, too, noticed the great variation on the final confrontations from each point of view last night</p>
<p>I heard a story on the radio today that in Season 2 we are going to see Cole and Helen’s perspectives, and that much of the ‘action’ will still be in the past before we catch up to the future where Noah is arrested. Sarah Treem, the creator of the show, planned for a three season show.</p>
<p>I just saw something in the comments section on the NYT recap that really struck me @Snowdog. You might be right about the story being Noah’s book or the father in law’s book. In the episode, there is a scene where they show someone reading Infinite Jest, and they reference the book. I read it so long ago that I didn’t pick up on it, but the poster on the recap said that the infinite jest was “a meta narrative that isn’t real” . . .ugh . . .that book was so convoluted that I seriously can’t add to this thought, but maybe someone else can.</p>
<p>Just watched the finale. Wow - I did not expect that last scene. I was actually liking Noah’s perspective this time where he seemed to understand how low he had sunk. Yet, getting suspended (with pay, presumably) is what gave him tons of uninterrupted time to work on his novel. And to get half a million $ and set himself and Alison up in a very much nicer apartment than the shoebox he proposed in the previous episode. It was kind of galling to see that. </p>
<p>Ok I had to look up Infinite Jest because I’ve never read it. Surely seems to be a clue, but to what.
Interesting that Alison is on the mend but her rock, Cole, is presented now as near suicidal. </p>
<p>That really was a twist at the end of last night’s episode! Maybe I’m the only person who has missed this but who was killed? I assumed neither Noah nor Alison was involved with whoever it was that was murdered until Noah paid off the tow truck driver. I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for season 2…</p>