What it's about: Speaking of great casts, hey, McNulty's back! After a brief sojourn form American telly to busy our screens playing the likes of Fred West, Dominic West returns to the country where he made his name to star in The Affair, a very Grown Up drama on Showtime. Grown Up in the sense that it deals with mature themes and issues, not that there's loads of swearing and boobies. Although there might be some of that, because it's Showtime, and it gets viewers! Probably the most down-to-earth show on this list (more than Z Nation? Heavens!), The Affair sees West's novelist Noah Solloway cheating on his wife with Ruth Wilson's waitress Alison Lockhart during a holiday in The Hamptons. The repercussions will make up the most of the drama, which is more grounded and realistic that soap opera histrionic. Or so we hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqvJSTNqNks Why it looks good: Again, West's a big draw for The Affair. As is Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi on board as creators and writers, the husband-and-wife team who previously brought us the cult classic In Treatment. The HBO series was all about a psychologist (played by Gabriel Byrne) and his low-key encounters with a variety of different patients, which was charmingly humanistic, engaging and ...well, grown up. So we have high hopes for The Affair to tow a similar line, especially based on on early reviews which try their best not to spoil too much, wanting audiences to discover the turns of the story (told with a fractured timeline and from different perspectives) for themselves. Even critics don't wanna spill the beans on what happens in The Affair - and we love that sort of thing, remember when we told you the ending of How I Met Your Mother back there? - that's how good it's going to be.
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