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
Season 3
5 Seasons
Season Premiere:
Oct 21, 2016
Metascore
Generally Favorable
72
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
88% Positive
7 Reviews
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13% Mixed
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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.
Nov 11, 2016
83
Maura Tierney's Helen continues to hold the emotional center, while Ruth Wilson's Alison is as haunting as ever. [18 Nov 2016, p.52]
User score
Generally Favorable
64% Positive
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
23% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
13% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Nov 22, 2016
10
So happy to see the season continue. I thought this was a show for women but I am really please it's for men too. I am hooked on this type of show. The acting and story-line is spot on, Hopefully the directors will keep this show going. Get your popcorn ready. 10/10 for me.
Nov 27, 2016
9
Just want to say to the cliche abhorring Olivier Piel abhorring Irene Jacob's 'fake' french accent: she happens to be a real, and famous, french actress and that is her real accent. As for expecting a Camus quote, why not? The show has always been about writing and philosophy. And the show IS referencing Camus strongly in its story line.
Nov 17, 2016
75
The Affair continues to keep us intrigued, which is always an accomplishment worth noting; we’ll definitely be watching as Season 3 proceeds. If only because the show has built up a rich tapestry beyond its most problematic character.
Nov 18, 2016
70
Each individual hour of The Affair holds your attention, and perhaps it’s best to just keep watching before deciding whether the overarching narrative is cohering in a satisfying way.
Nov 18, 2016
70
It’s better to simply note that The Affair succeeds by becoming a tangled mess--but that mess has considerably less appeal this time. The only way through, of course, depends on Tierney’s unerring performance as Helen.
Nov 18, 2016
70
The Affair, co-created by Sarah Treem, who writes many of the episodes, and Hagai Levy (In Treatment), remains absorbing and maddening, illuminating and frustratingly opaque, all in equal measure. It is a very good drama that, at times, also makes me roll my eyes hard enough to propel myself backward in time.
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.
Nov 20, 2016
8
Yeah, ok, you may recognize much of these trends. French women, college kids arguing over big ****. But if something os done with skill, the object cannot be the objections. In other words, one can make great art about anything, even something that has been done before. With all that being said, there is still something distinctive about this series--Noah as a character is still off beat, uncomfortablely so, the tone is still rich, searching. There is still real human drama--overall, it still seem like a show searching for and trying to say something, even if it is unclear what that is. Still one of the better television experience
Oct 14, 2017
6
White for the most part still fun to watch, it's amazing how many bad decisions they made for this season, that feels completely improvised and messy. I'm not optimistic about the future and I'm glad that season 2 ended in a way that we fans can say it's the true ending and ignore what's to come.
Nov 27, 2016
6
Unable to recover from the ludicrous final episode of Season 2, The Affair flounders and fails to come up with a good answer to the question, "Why am I still watching this?"
Nov 20, 2016
4
very disappointing first episode of the third season. But as season 2 was already a significant step down from a refreshing and naturalistic portrayal of adultery towards soap opera, we shouldn't be surprised. Lazy clichés galore: university campus teeming with liberal arts students pompously debating in front of candlelit dinner and jazz and a free-thinking French visiting professor faking an excruciating accent and peppering her discourse with French 101 class vocabulary (that is so 1960! I was just expecting some Camus quote at some point) to the stalking Chicago cubs prison guard (but I guess no one could foresee they would win the world series). The acting of the main actors is really wasted on this lazy script. A shame
Nov 30, 2016
1
Fails to entertain. The first episode was 55 minutes of brooding, moping, and hallucinating. If that's your thing then this is your show. If you like a couple minutes of fun mixed in with your drama then you'll have to look elsewhere. Absolutely no one is having fun on this show. Even the sex scene stopped before the sex. What a waste of talent.
