The Affair

Well, I'm definitely no TV critic but I can surely binge-watch as well and as much as the next guy. Although my thing is mostly crime or sci-fi series, I can always appreciate a good drama; when it's really good.

The Affair is a series that, judging by reviews and friendly suggestions, I always wanted to check out, but that never happened before it had already reached season 4. The first thing that captures your attention here is the concrete performance of each of the leading actors. Dominic West, Joshua Jackson, Ruth Wilson and Maura Tierney each deliver monumental pieces of acting portraying the every-day emotional struggles of regular people. From then on, it's the dry and realistic writing that puts you in the shoes of every one of these characters. Loss, trust, responsibility, betrayal, passion; everything depicted on a scale that makes you think that it can easily happen to you as well. From the trailers, it might come off just as a story of infidelity and adultery but it's so not just that. How safe we feel as long as our comfort zone is not disturbed, where the red line to stop compromising yourself lies, when is the sense of loss too much to bear, how much of yourself you would sacrifice for genuinely loving someone, whether there is ever a time to say that it's too late to just start over; only few of the questions and crossroads the characters face here. The way that the series dives into each character's psyche (using an original method of presenting every event multiple times, through the point of view of every character consecutively) connects the viewer with them in a way that epic series like Six Feet Under have done in the past.

Season 4 aired last year and we're waiting for the final fifth season this year probably. If you managed to catch up in the meantime, you would do anything but regret it.