Alison Bailey from The Affair
It remains unclear what behind-the-scenes circumstances resulted in the suicide of Alison Bailey (Ruth Wilson), but the circumstances of her death seemed too abrupt for viewers to fully understand it. Alison’s life was filled with tragedy, isolation, and heartbreak—enough to make her suicide to seem somewhat inevitable. Still, for a woman whose life was haunted by the drowning of her young son, it felt like cruel and unusual punishment for her to meet the same fate.
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