There’s always two sides to a story
We told you about The Affair right as Fall TV was starting to premiere and even brought you a trailer a few weeks before that, so if you frequent our site, you should be roughly familiar with the series up to this point. With the Showtime premiere around the corner on October 12, the pilot has been release a week ahead of time to get people curious about the show.
The first episode pretty much set up what the show is going to be about and the format it will be taking place.
In the pilot, we meet Noah and his family, who have planned another Summer in the Hamptons away from the brownstone apartment they currently reside in. Noah’s wife’s parents live in a plush mansion by the beach and through the episode, you can get a feel for the family’s dynamics. One son acts out, the daughter thinks she’s Kim Kardashian, the middle son gets ignored and picked on, the parents can’t get a good sex session off without their kids interrupting. This must be what a new-age family must be like.
Interestingly, the show cuts off about halfway through the episode and switches to Allison, the waitress at the diner the family ate at. She has problems of her own too. Her boyfriend always wants to have sex. She feels lost. And we don’t get an answer as to why until the episode ends and it’s revealed that the couple had a child die and every complication in their relationship has stemmed from that.
Considering the story is told from two point of views and even has another dynamic installed (they’re both recalling the story while being questioned by police), it’s funny to see how different both Noah and Allison told it. From the clothing, to the way she wore her hair and little things in between, you can tell there’s a slight change in what happens throughout the course of the episode.
We’re sure this changes more drastically as the series continues. They’re both being investigated for a murder, so at this point it’s too early to call it.
We’ll be catching The Affair for the next few weeks and see how it all plays out. You can too, every Sunday at 10pm on Showtime.