Noah is out of prison but he sure isn’t free
Welcome back everyone!
Sing it, Fiona Apple!!
Okay, so this episode begins and ends with Noah and Noah only.
Credit: Showtime
But really, its always beenallabout Noah, so why not?
His father has also died, and hes living in his sisters house.
Martin ices Noah out hard.
Noah ices Helen in return.
But then Noah is all distracted by a shadowy figure creeping around the graveyard.
Shout out for the priests response: Thank you, Noah, for those…. words.
The funeral concludes, awesomely, with everyone singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Noah dreams of prison.
It does not look awesome.
He does, however, shave the beard and hears his sister and her husband fighting about him.
His brother-in-law seems like a jerk, yet makes some compelling points about how unfair this all is.
Maybe in the seventh season well get her perspective.
Is Noah supposed to be teaching at Princeton maybe?
your humble recappers hometown?
Big beautiful campus, gothic buildings, snooty students, etc.
Noah sees a notice for cheap student housing.
For those who are interested, the Princeton area code is 609.
Ill stop now.)
He dreams of a time that Helen comes to visit him in prison.
Helen thinks she can get him out.
Hes like Im pretty tough, and I owe this to you… after what I put you through.
He thinks they wont keep him for the full three years (flash-forward says they sure do).
Shes like, what about me?
He just tells her to wait.
Shes Professor Juliette Le Gall, and she is played by Irene Jacob, and she teaches courtly love.
We listen to her lecture about the conscious and subconscious.
Dont you just love it when the show tries to talk directly to us?
We see the fictional shadow self become a manifestation of the writers own depravity.
A shadow of a shadow destined to be destroyed by its creator.
Turns out that the professor is super psyched to meet Noah and believes they are kindred spirits.
She tells Noah that some students and faculty are not excited about him being there.
You are a murderer, yes?
(Heres the thing about French accents: Everything sounds adorable and chic.
I want you to try and imagine that everything Ms.
They go to a cafe and discuss their ennui and make some very rude cracks about New Jersey.
Stalker or has he lost his mind?
Lady Le Gall invites him to a party that evening at her house.
Noah meets with his parole officer, and we learn hes just teaching one class per semester.
He thinks its going well.
She stresses that he needs to stay employed, that she needs to see where hes living, etc.
He asks if anyone oh, lets just say a guard might know where he is?
She says no way.
Noah drops the wine, and the maybe Fraser leaves.
Noah arrives at the lovely home of professor ooh la la.
Guess who opens the door?
Looking an AWFUL lot like young Alison, btw.
Not a coincidence Im sure.
There is a foolish young white man talking about how scary it is to be a man these days.
Audrey passionately tells him off.
Juliette makeseyesat Noah down the table.
Repeat: She is literally biting into fruit.
(Replay it with the Boston accent, I dare you.)
Oh, yeah, remember that??
Oh, boy, we really are in Noahs mind now arent we?
Noah goes outside where Audrey is smoking and she really looks like Alison to me.
He apologizes for his treatment of her and asks if she really feels unsafe in his class?
BTW, this is true.
I was beginning to think there was no one interesting to talk to in all of New Jersey.
(I dont approve of this Jersey bashing at all, show.)
He goes inside, hes jumping at shadows.
But maybe he wasnt being all that paranoid?
Because it sure looks like he just got stabbed in the neck.
See you guys next week!
