The Affair

TV Series
2014–2019
15
1h

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7.9/10

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Psychological Drama Drama

A struggling novelist and a young waitress strike up an extramarital relationship that promises to forever change the course of their lives.A struggling novelist and a young waitress strike up an extramarital relationship that promises to forever change the course of their lives.A struggling novelist and a young waitress strike up an extramarital relationship that promises to forever change the course of their lives.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

50K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 6 wins & 24 nominations total

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Trivia
The Lobster Roll restaurant actually exists in Montauk, but is closed in the winter.

Goofs
There are more episodes than not that, during the recaps, used scenes that weren't in any episodes (cut/deleted/alternate scenes). Makes an already confusing storyline more-so. (It's what is known as an unreliable narrator in prose. So it's a feature not a flaw of this drama.)

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Featured in 72nd Golden Globe Awards (2015)

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Complex and disturbing and alluringly thought provoking.

Setting: Picturesque, folksy, idyllic, New England seaside tourist/fishing village town. Plot: Male (Dominic West) novel writing work/summer vacation with wife and children, meets and gets drawn into the life of married local woman (Ruth Wilson).

Appreciate the complexity, undisclosed undercurrents, the conflicted psychology of the main characters, all the while, aware of the cloaked elephant in the room.

Story told similar to True Detective's style with the detective's interviews of the affairees shown remembrances, somehow relating to whatever is going to happen. One half is his side, the other half, hers.

Lots of sideways glimpses of character and intentions, challenging what you thought you understood.