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EPISODE
SEASON
The Affair - Season 1 Episode 01
Fate brings Alison the waitress and Noah together after Noah moves with his family ( Wife and four children) to Montauk.
22 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA
2 July 1943, New York City, New York, USA
6 June 1983, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
21 August 1964, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 October 1998, USA
2 January 1978, Frankfurt, Germany
3 December 1968, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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 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 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 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 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 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 first episode does a great job of setting the tone for the whole series.