Tonight on Showtime, The Affair premieres with an all new Sunday October 12, season 1 premiere episode called, “1.” Tonight, in a chance encounter, Noah and Alison meet and connect.
For those of you unfamiliar with the show, the series focuses on Hamptons waitress Alison (Ruth Wilson) as she tries to recover from a personal tragedy while her husband Cole (Joshua Jackson) struggles to keep the family ranch and their marriage together. The ramifications of Allison’s affair with Noah (Dominic West), a New York City
On tonight’s episode the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship are explored when a married schoolteacher begins an affair with a waitress on Long Island. In the opener, Noah Solloway and his family visit Long Island where he connects with a local waitress.
Tonight’s episode is going to be an action packed one, which you won’t want to miss. So be sure to tune in for our live coverage of Showtimes’ The Affair Season 1 premiere — tonight at 10PM EST!
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On tonight’s premiere episode of The Affair, we met Noah and Allison. Two essentially unhappy people (though one of them denies their state of mind) who happened to have met one day and started a chain reaction that somehow led to a police investigation.
So where did it go all wrong? That is what the interviewing detective and even the audience wants to know. How did the affair start? Who initiated it? And what could these two have possibly done that led them to this – whatever THIS is!
Noah Solloway is a public school teacher who at first appears to be a loving if not exasperated married father of four. His eldest daughter is showing dangerous eating habits, his eldest son quite disturbingly thought faking his suicide was going to be funny, his other son is unfortunately stuck between a rock and hard place – the hard place being his middle child status and the former being his older tormenting brother. And as for the baby, she’s got being cute and adorable working for her.
Noah and his wife often find it hard to parent all four of their kids but for the most part they seem to have knack for juggling it all. Plus they live in a beautiful decorated brownstone and Noah’s relationship with his wife appears to be going strong. Women often flirt with him and so far he’s never taken them up on the offer. Hence life is good for him and the impression he gives off is that he has no reason to want to disrupt that.
Frankly, the only downside to Noah’s overall golden life is his father-in-law. The older man is a self-made man and he did it all by becoming an accomplished writer. Something Noah had dabbled in yet never managed to make that much of a success.
Not that his one book was all that bad. He did receive an early offer on a second book which in any other case would indicate he does have some degree of talent. Although that last part doesn’t seem to matter to Noah’s father-in-law, the great Bruce Butler. And why should it? In Bruce’s eyes he’s the success story and Noah is the failure. So he loves to rub in Noah’s face the fact he made for the brownstone. Technically, it was a loan but that doesn’t mean a thing in their pissing contest.
Bruce and Noah just don’t get along. And that’s going to make things pretty uncomfortable for the next couple of months seeing as Noah and his family spend every summer at his in-laws’s house in the Hamptons. It’s supposed to be fun with the whole family and yet the only thing that has grabbed Noah’s interest was the waitress they had run into at the dinner.
Her name is Allison and she was this flirtatious femme fatale. She came on to him right off the bat. And he merely made attention to her because in spite of her overt behavior she also looked like she needed help. Sure, she came on to him and he didn’t return her feelings. But, in his mind’s eye, he couldn’t help noticing how much she needed someone to talk to.
Besides her behaviour, she had this twisted relationship with her own spouse. Noah caught them in the middle of a confrontation and it looked like Allison’s husband was being abusive towards her. So not only did Noah think she needed help, but he also thought she needed him!
However there’s something wrong with this picture of Noah’s life and his take on what happened between him and Allison. Some of its pure delusions on his end and the truth is actually a cross between his account and Allison’s own version of events.
Alison wasn’t all done up like the way Noah had thought. Truthfully, she was pretty dowdy when they first met. She had lost her only child a while back and she wasn’t nearly over her loss. So, truthfully, all the times Noah thought she was eyeing him – she was paying attention to his family.
That’s what she wanted for herself – a family. Though what little she had left was falling apart all because of her grief. She and her husband weren’t talking to each other. Communication had broken down and by a certain point he started to take out all his frustrations on her. Allison wouldn’t tell him what else he could do for her and so he didn’t know how to help her grieve for their son but still be able to move on.
And she made him feel guilty about that. He wanted to laugh and be around friends and family. While she on the hand saw happiness all together, even his, as a betrayal.
Then she met Noah and his family. And though she didn’t make much of their meeting (they had no control over their children) – Noah apparently did. When before she came off as the aggressor that’s flipped in her own tale. Noah was the one that pursued her. And another thing that’s completely different than the way he phrased it – he wasn’t the Prince Charming as much as he thought.
He didn’t come after her because he wanted to help. No, he simply wanted to get his rocks off and according to her – she had turned him down. As for that alleged scene with her husband, what he made out to be marital rape was in her opinion just raw sex.
He thought she had pleaded with him with her eyes not to get involved and she says she didn’t know he was still there until after she spied him watching her and her husband out of the corner of her eye. So who is telling the truth?
Is Noah a gentlemen or a pervert? And is Allison downplaying her own involvement in this sordid affair? We won’t get the answers to these questions for some time and while we wait there’s a third question that going to be plaguing the audience – who’s the father of Alison’s child? At the end of tonight’s episode, she had asked the detective if she could be excused early in order to go pick up her kid.
THE END!
