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The Affair

Summary The 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 (M...

Created By: Hagai Levi, Sarah Treem

  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • SHOWTIME
  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • SHOWTIME

The Affair

5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 12, 2014
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 58 Critic Reviews
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81
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 431 User Ratings
7.3
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Summary The 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 (M...

Created By: Hagai Levi, Sarah Treem

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 58 Critic Reviews
81
91% Positive
53 Reviews
9% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 58 Critic Reviews
81
91% Positive
53 Reviews
9% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Nov 16, 2016
Dark and thrilling, The Affair returns with a huge wallop--and glorious French star Irène Jacob is in the house.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 5, 2015
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.
By Mark Peikert FULL REVIEW
83
Oct 1, 2015
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.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 1, 2015
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.
By Kristi Turnquist FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 9, 2014
[A] captivating, slow-burn emotional mystery.
By James Poniewozik FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 2, 2015
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.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 16, 2016
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.
By Allison Keene FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 431 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
322 Ratings
9% Mixed
37 Ratings
17% Negative
72 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 431 User Ratings
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37 Ratings
17% Negative
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    Initial Release Date: Oct 12, 2014
    Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
    Rating: TV-MA
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    Awards

    Golden Globes, USA
    • 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
    Satellite Awards
    • 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
    Writers Guild of America, USA
    • 2 Nominations

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