7 x why you should watch The Affair
Maybe you've already ‘finished‘ it, because The Affair has been available on Netflix for a while, but I hear so many people around me who haven't seen it yet that I want to spread the gospel of The Affair. I'm completely into it again, you know. You have to see this and here's why.
The checklist to see if you're addicted to Netflix.
1. About Montauk
Montauk is where the cool New Yorkers go on vacation. And where that amazing Chanel commercial with Michiel Huisman and Gisele Bündchen was filmed. The beginning of the series takes place here and it's America at its finest.
2. Her story/his story
The story is about Noah Solloway, a married teacher who just wrote his book and the waitress Allison who lost her son a year earlier. Allison and Noah are like sea salt and olive oil: they just belong together. Each episode is told half from her point of view and then Noah takes over. Some scenes overlap where it's masterful how you see the personal coloring. In Noah's version, Allison is always slimmer and sexier than in her own telling.
3. About Ruth Wilson
Or Alison Lockhart. So beautiful and accessible. Not intensely toned and slim: just good. And pretty. And those lips... She masterfully transforms from the sexy, free spirit and seductress she is in Noah's eyes to the grieving, tormented, and searching version of herself on her own side of the story.
4. About Dominic West
Or Noah Solloway. Not your average pretty boy. To quote his daughter Whitney: ‘Allison, why did you choose my father? Your husband Cole is so cool and my dad is... OLD.” Noah has wrinkles and his eyes sag, but he has character in his head. He seems the sweetest, but there's something big that grates.
5. The houses
From their family Brownstone in Brooklyn to the million-dollar villa of Noah's father-in-law in Montauk and the wooden house (with outdoor shower!) overlooking Allison's dunes to the fancy apartment in New York where Noah later goes to live. They are all equally cool in their own way.
6. About the beauty of sorrow
Allison sitting by Gabriel's grave reading him Peter Pan....
7. It's addictive
That you cut off conversations because you want to keep watching, you don't mind that a dinner doesn't go ahead. That kind of addiction, you know...
And now I've suddenly made it so that you don't mind at all that it's going to rain this weekend. Couch and binge, I would say.
