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EPISODE
SEASON
The Affair - Season 1 Episode 01
A school teacher and novelist, Noah Solloway is married to his wife and has four children. Noah, who is completely dependent on his father-in-law, is trying to complete a second novel when he visits the town of Montauk. There, he meets a beautiful waitress, Alison Bailey. Noah and Alison start having an extramarital relationship.
18 August 1974, San Francisco, California, USA
3 March 1980, Manila, Philippines
26 July 1966, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
22 May 1977, Ramat-Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
1 January 1981, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
9 January 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 May 1967, Tacoma, Washington, USA
29 July 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 01, 2015
When I heard about this show, I was cold to it, even with these actors involved, even with Treem running things. But the first episode, at least, is terrific, with a distinct, involving tone, and it does very right by its leads.
October 06, 2015
It's fitting, then, that the first glimpse we get of the main character (played to perfection by Dominic West) is of him swimming... His perfect form emulates nearly everything that he's going to tell us during the first half of the premiere episode.
October 05, 2015
The Affair's first episode does a great job of setting the tone for the whole series.
October 05, 2015
This dual perspective is a tricky line to walk, especially when it is tied to a risky device like a season-long mystery to unravel, but at least in the pilot it is managed with extreme grace.
October 12, 2015
Taken just as two different versions of the one story, The Affair would be intriguing, but the show adds a third layer to all this.
October 05, 2015
The Affair's opening episode asks more questions than it answers, but it explores a side of cognitive behavior and unreliable narratives in ways that are new and novel for TV.
October 12, 2015
Everything to do with Noah's in-laws was so sort-of-awful it was wonderful.
October 06, 2015
With only one, tantalizing episode to go on, it's perhaps too soon to know if The Affair will live up to the promise shown in the pilot. But the first episode is intriguing and unsettling enough to inspire confidence.
October 09, 2015
The Affair clings to that old trope until half-way through, when the narrative switches perspectives to the female point of view. This is where the story gets interesting.
