SummaryThe series focuses on Hamptons waitress Alison (Ruth Wilson) as she tries to recover from a personal tragedy while her husband Cole (Joshua Jackson) struggles to keep the family ranch and their marriage together. The ramifications of Allison's affair with Noah (Dominic West), a New York City teacher married to his childhood sweetheart (Maura Tier... Read More
Created By:Hagai Levi, Sarah Treem
The Affair
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere:
Oct 12, 2014
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
User score
Generally Favorable
7.6
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
91% Positive
53 Reviews
53 Reviews
9% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Nov 16, 2016
100
Dark and thrilling, The Affair returns with a huge wallop--and glorious French star Irène Jacob is in the house.
Oct 5, 2015
90
That we never really know the people whom we love is a powerful, popular theme that fits snugly into the thriller and horror genres (think of “Rosemary’s Baby” and all those early ’90s erotic thrillers) but to see it rendered so artfully and crisply and unsentimentally as a weekly drama is to understand why we are so often informed that we live in a golden age of TV.
Oct 1, 2015
83
After the first season's packed finale, Sunday's episode settles down, takes a breath, and slowwwwws down. That's absolutely an auspicious and necessary development.
Oct 1, 2015
80
Season 2 improves on Season 1 by broadening the story to give us the points of view of the wronged spouses, Noah's wife, Helen (Maura Tierney,) and Alison's husband, Cole (Joshua Jackson.) Tierney and Jackson are both so good, they left us wanting more in Season 1, and it's great to see their characters do some well-justified venting.
Oct 2, 2015
70
The change in structure [expanding to four POVs] certainly helps the series, which though one of TV’s more ambitious writing experiments was beginning to seem limited by its own gimmick.... True, the consequences of the affair that set the series in motion are substantial and never-ending, but it’s all coated in an idyllic sheen.
Nov 16, 2016
40
Getting meta and representing a debate happening outside of the show within it is never a good idea, and it’s one of the many scenes that makes The Affair’s new season exceptionally stuffy at times.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.6
78% Positive
327 Ratings
327 Ratings
9% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
13% Negative
54 Ratings
54 Ratings
Sep 22, 2019
9
If you described "The Affair" to me - I would assume I wouldn't particularly care for it. If you gave me plot summaries of the episodes, I would not find them particularly interesting. To me, the characters are generally unlikable. Every time a new season of this series comes around, I think I am probably not going to like it so much as I did previously. Nevertheless, I find that there are episodes or parts of episodes that just blow me away. In my opinion, this is one of the best series I have experienced. The acting, directing, editing and writing at times are absolutely superb.
