The Affair

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Season 3
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 12, 2014
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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Critic Reviews

  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Allison Keene
    Nov 16, 2016
    40
    Getting meta and representing a debate happening outside of the show within it is never a good idea, and it’s one of the many scenes that makes The Affair’s new season exceptionally stuffy at times.

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#71 Best TV Season of 2016

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User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 58
  3. Negative: 12 out of 58
  1. EPMD
    Nov 30, 2016
    1
    Fails to entertain. The first episode was 55 minutes of brooding, moping, and hallucinating. If that's your thing then this is your show. IfFails to entertain. The first episode was 55 minutes of brooding, moping, and hallucinating. If that's your thing then this is your show. If you like a couple minutes of fun mixed in with your drama then you'll have to look elsewhere. Absolutely no one is having fun on this show. Even the sex scene stopped before the sex. What a waste of talent.… Full Review »
  2. jgzeger
    Nov 27, 2016
    6
    Unable to recover from the ludicrous final episode of Season 2, The Affair flounders and fails to come up with a good answer to the question,Unable to recover from the ludicrous final episode of Season 2, The Affair flounders and fails to come up with a good answer to the question, "Why am I still watching this?"… Full Review »
  3. OlivierPiel
    Nov 20, 2016
    4
    very disappointing first episode of the third season. But as season 2 was already a significant step down from a refreshing and naturalisticvery disappointing first episode of the third season. But as season 2 was already a significant step down from a refreshing and naturalistic portrayal of adultery towards soap opera, we shouldn't be surprised.
    Lazy clichés galore: university campus teeming with liberal arts students pompously debating in front of candlelit dinner and jazz and a free-thinking French visiting professor faking an excruciating accent and peppering her discourse with French 101 class vocabulary (that is so 1960! I was just expecting some Camus quote at some point) to the stalking Chicago cubs prison guard (but I guess no one could foresee they would win the world series).
    The acting of the main actors is really wasted on this lazy script. A shame    … Full Review »
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