
Sex/Life(2021)
A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.


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.

Dominic West
Noah Solloway

Maura Tierney
Helen Solloway

Julia Goldani Telles
Whitney Solloway

Jadon Sand
Trevor Solloway

Anna Paquin
Joanie Lockhart

Sanaa Lathan
Jenelle Wilson

Abigail Dylan Harrison
Stacey Solloway
The Affair is a drama series that first aired in 2014 exploring themes of husband wife relationship, infidelity, murderer, extramarital affair, complicated relationships. Created by Hagai Levi, it stars Dominic West, Maura Tierney, Julia Goldani Telles. 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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