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EPISODE
SEASON
The Affair - Season 1 Episode 01
The extramarital relationship between a waitress Alison and Noah, the father of four who is a novelist and a school teacher and depends on his father in law financially.
















28 September 1983, Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA





4 October 1980, Nyack, New York, USA



14 February 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA











18 March 1961, Brooklyn, New York, USA


6 December 1938, Brussels, Belgium

30 April 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

16 May 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA



11 May 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA

3 March 1980, Manila, Philippines


























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 05, 2015
The Affair's first episode does a great job of setting the tone for the whole series.
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 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 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.
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
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 12, 2015
Everything to do with Noah's in-laws was so sort-of-awful it was wonderful.
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.