Season 1

The Affair (2014), Season 1 is a Showtime drama you can watch online on iFILM — ten episodes that begin when a married New York teacher and a Montauk waitress meet by chance one summer and start something neither can take back.

The hook is the split point of view. Every hour replays the same events twice, once as Noah remembers them and once as Alison does. The two accounts never quite line up. Who reached for whom, what was said on Block Island, who seduced whom — both memories bend, and you are left to decide which version to trust. Underneath the romance runs a slow crime story: Detective Jeffries questions everyone years later, and it gradually surfaces that the summer ended in a death. Alison is still grieving a lost child, Noah has a wife and four kids in Brooklyn, and Cole, Alison's husband, clings to a family business coming apart at the seams.

The season won the Golden Globe for Best Drama. The pull here isn't the cheating itself — it's how differently two people recall the exact same nights. Best for viewers who like patient, unreliable psychological drama with no clean villains. Stream The Affair Season 1 online on iFILM, all episodes in good quality.