The Affair is een Amerikaanse dramaserie van de zender Showtime. De serie ging in première op 12 oktober 2014.
Noah is een onderwijzer uit New York City en een schrijver die gelukkig getrouwd is, maar heeft een hekel aan zijn financiële afhankelijk van rijke schoonvader. Alison is een jonge serveerster die haar leven en huwelijk op de rit probeert te krijgen in de nasleep van een tragedie. Het provocerende drama ontvouwt zich wanneer Alison en Noah elkaar ontmoeten in Montauk, op het eind van Long Island.
McNulty is back! Well, back… This time his name isn't McNulty, his name is Noah, and he's fighting not the drug-infested streets of Baltimore in The Wire, but the straitjacket called married life in The Affair. Also exciting. However? At least I think so. Noah has it so good at first sight. He wakes up every morning next to a beautiful lady, has four kids running around in his New York brownstone who seem to be quite normal, and has written a book that sells so well that he has at least part of the bills with it. can pay. A small portion. A tiny portion. Nice work, Noah! Yet there is a slumbering discontent within him. And what do men do when they are dormantly dissatisfied? Exactly! They buy a car without a roof, a hairpiece or porridges with girls who could just as easily have been their daughter. Noah goes for door number three and, while on vacation with his in-laws, gets involved in an affair with the waitress at the local snack shack. As the squabble takes on more seriousness, it turns out that Noah and Alison aren't just trying to hide their romance from the outside world. If this isn't a cliffhanger, then I don't know what is. There's something about The Affair. You don't know exactly what's wrong, but something is simmering on the surface. Something ominous. Disaster that is actually already hidden in the mysterious title song by Fiona Apple. The series takes all the time to loosen the frayed sweater painfully slowly, but somehow that never gets boring. The set-up in which the story is actually told twice – once from Alison's perspective and once from Noah's – is not disturbing for a moment. One to immerse yourself in and only come up when the climax is reached.