The Affair
Created by Sarah Treem, Hagai Levi
On Showtime
A serialized psychological study of infidelity and its cascading emotional damage, told through fragmented, unreliable perspectives that interrogate how desire and self-deception corrode intimacy.
The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.
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