The Affair / Episode List

This episode list contains all episodes of the US drama series The Affair , sorted by the US American premiere . The television series currently comprises five seasons with 53 episodes.

Overview

Season	Number of episodes	First broadcast in the USA		German-language first broadcast
		Season premiere	Season finale	Season premiere	Season finale
1	10	October 12, 2014	December 21, 2014	August 14, 2015
2	12	4th October 2015	20th December 2015	October 7, 2015	December 22, 2015
3	10	20th November 2016	29th January 2017	November 25, 2016	3rd February 2017
4th	10	17th June 2018	19th August 2018	June 18, 2018	20th August 2018
5	11	August 25, 2019	3rd November 2019	22nd September 2019	29th November 2019

season 1

The first broadcast of the first season was from October 12 to December 21, 2014 on the US cable channel Showtime . The German-language version was published by the video-on-demand provider Amazon Instant Video on August 14, 2015.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Spectator (USA)
1	1	summer	1	Oct 12, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Mark Mylod	Sarah Treem Idea: Sarah Treem & Hagai Levi	0.51 million
2	2	Two lives	2	Oct. 19, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem	0.51 million
3	3	Don't wake up!	3	Oct 26, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Eric Overmyer	0.59 million
4th	4th	In the abyss	4th	Nov 2, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Melanie Marnich	0.69 million
5	5	Phoebe's house	5	Nov 9, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Carl Franklin	Kate Robin	0.67 million
6th	6th	No matter	6th	Nov 16, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Carl Franklin	Dan LeFranc	0.78 million
7th	7th	Peace?	7th	23 Nov 2014	14 Aug 2015	Ryan Fleck	Kate Robin	0.88 million
8th	8th	Back in Montauk	8th	7th Dec 2014	14 Aug 2015	Ryan Fleck	Dan LeFranc & Melanie Marnich	0.76 million
9	9	I believe in hell	9	Dec 14, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Melanie Marnich & Kate Robin Idea: Dan LeFranc	0.84 million
10	10	That one moment	10	Dec 21, 2014	14 Aug 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem	0.95 million

season 2

The first broadcast of the second season was from October 4 to December 20, 2015 on the US cable channel Showtime . The German-language version was published by the video-on-demand provider Amazon Instant Video from October 7th to December 22nd, 2015.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Spectator (USA)
11	1	201	201	Oct 4, 2015	Oct 7, 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem	0.82 million
12	2	202	202	Oct 11, 2015	Oct 13, 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem	0.55 million
13	3	203	203	Oct 18, 2015	Oct 20, 2015	Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck	Alena Smith	0.65 million
14th	4th	204	204	Oct 25, 2015	Oct 27, 2015	John Dahl	Anya Epstein	0.87 million
15th	5	205	205	Nov 1, 2015	Nov 3, 2015	Laura Innes	Sharr White	0.86 million
16	6th	206	206	Nov 8, 2015	Nov 10, 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	David Henry Hwang	0.89 million
17th	7th	207	207	Nov 15, 2015	Nov 17, 2015	Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck	Abe Sylvia	0.79 million
18th	8th	208	208	Nov 22, 2015	Nov 24, 2015	Laura Innes	Sharr White	0.84 million
19th	9	209	209	Nov 29, 2015	Dec 1, 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	David Henry Hwang & Alena Smith	0.92 million
20th	10	210	210	Dec 6, 2015	Dec 8, 2015	Scott Winant	Anya Epstein	0.83 million
21st	11	211	211	Dec 13, 2015	Dec 15, 2015	Michael Slovis	Abe Sylvia & Sharr White Idea: Abe Sylvia	0.99 million
22nd	12	212	212	Dec 20, 2015	Dec 22, 2015	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem	1.11 million

season 3

The first broadcast of the third season was from November 20, 2016 to January 29, 2017 on the US cable channel Showtime . The German-language version was published by the video-on-demand provider Amazon Instant Video from November 25, 2016 to February 3, 2017.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Spectator (USA)
23	1	Shadow of a shadow	301	Nov 20, 2016	Nov 25, 2016	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem	0.59 million
The third season begins three years after the plot of the second season ends. Unlike before, the first episode only shows Noah's view of things. Noah's perspective: Noah Solloway has served his prison sentence and is mourning his recently deceased father at the beginning of the episode. He has also lost his fortune and lives with his sister, whose husband sees him as a parasite. During the funeral service he sees the man for the first time, who watches him over and over again throughout the episode and pursues him. Although his sister cared for the father towards the end of his life, Noah inherits the parental home. Noah also teaches literature at a university, where he meets his colleague Professor Le Gall. The two get closer at a party, but Noah turns away from her and goes home. There he is stabbed in the neck by an unknown person and goes to the ground bleeding profusely.
24	2	Arrangements	302	Nov 27, 2016	Dec 2, 2016	John Dahl	Anya Epstein	0.58 million
The plot of the second episode begins chronologically a year before the first episode. Helen's perspective: Helen is with Dr. Vic Ullah, who has moved into the basement of her house, and works as a realtor. She visits Noah in prison even though the two are no longer together. Noah is only interested in seeing his children, but Helen does not want to take them to jail because Noah is regularly beaten up there. Together with Vic she visits her eldest daughter Whitney, who lives with the much older artist Fukat. Helen is concerned that she is neglecting her education, but Whitney and Fukat are convinced that as an assistant they will learn more. Helen breaks off the visit and back home there is an argument between Vic and Helen about their situation in life. Helen is dissatisfied with the half-separate living situation of the two, whereupon Vic symbolically fetches his things from the basement and moves upstairs to Helen's apartment. Alison's perspective: On the anniversary of her first child's death, Alison takes the train to her hometown of Montauk, where she rented a room to mourn him. She had left her ex-husband and daughter Joanie for six months and went into psychiatric treatment. Her ex-husband Cole, who is also the biological father of her daughter, and his second wife Luisa had taken care of the girl. Since it was very difficult for Joanie that her mother had left, Cole and Luisa refuse to contact their daughter. In a conversation in a bar, Allison tells her former boss, Oscar Hodges, how, when she was feeling very bad mentally, she passed custody of her daughter to Cole and Luisa and that her mental problems began when her daughter got old in which her first son drowned. Cole later changes his mind and she is allowed to see her daughter again.
25th	3	Attempted murder	303	4th Dec 2016	Dec 9, 2016	Jeffrey Reiner	David Henry Hwang	0.66 million
Juliette's perspective: After Juliette secretly read Noah's book hidden in a paper envelope during the day, he and a few students visit her for dinner in the evening. The two get closer, but Noah withdraws and leaves the party. After the other guests have left, Juliette notices that Noah has forgotten his jacket. In her pocket she finds a note with his address. Once there, she finds Noah is bleeding on the floor. Noah: Noah's part follows directly on from Juliette's. While he is being driven to the hospital half unconscious for an operation, moments from his prison stay are shown. Among others, John Gunther from his former swimming team is a guard in the prison where Noah was imprisoned. After the operation, Helen visits him in the hospital. The nurse tells Noah what is known about the incident, but Noah can only remember that he was doing the washing up. When Noah is released from the hospital, his sister picks him up. Noah first wants to see Juliette to find out why she was at his apartment. Then he stays with her. In the flashbacks, John gives Noah a typewriter. He develops a strange obsession with Noah.
26th	4th	Rest of life	304	Dec 11, 2016	Dec 16, 2016	John Dahl	Stuart Zicherman	0.67 million
Cole's perspective: Cole is celebrating the fifth birthday of his daughter Joanie. His new wife Louisa and Alison compete for the care of Joanie. After Louisa has accepted Joanie as her daughter, it is difficult for her to share her guardianship with her birth mother again. While Louisa Cole explains her feelings about the situation, the police rings and asks for an alibi for the time of the crime. Louisa spontaneously gives him a false alibi, but doesn't know where he has been herself. When Cole then complains to Alison that she did not inform him about Noah's release, she apologizes for the complication of his life situation. Cole kisses her then. Alison's perspective: Alison is playing in the playground with Joanie, who wants to balance over a climbing frame. From Noah's point of view, the potentially dangerous situation is presented in a much more harmless way from Alison's point of view. Noah and the employee of the youth welfare office show no interest at all. She then tries to convince Joanie's legal advisor that she is ready for unsupervised visits to her daughter. The office is not convinced, refers to old psychological reports and the fact that she is still formally married to Noah. In the evening she receives a visit from the criminal investigation department, which is investigating the attempted murder of Noah. Louisa tries to keep her away from her mother at Joanie's birthday party. Noah puts Joanie on the horse against her will, from which she then falls off. Unlike Cole's memory, it is not Alison who comforts the little one, but Louisa. When Alison leaves the party, Louisa carries the homemade cake after her and accuses Alison of not being able to tailor her needs to Joanies. When Cole visits her in the evening, she shows him the homemade dollhouse that she would like to give Joanie for her birthday. Then the two have sex. The next morning Louisa stops by Alison to tell her that she can stay with Alison on Tuesday. On the way to town, she meets Noah, who comes towards her.
27	5	Just a day	305	Dec 18, 2016	23 Dec 2016	Jeffrey Reiner	Sharr White	0.72 million
Alison's perspective: Noah stayed at Alison's. The next morning she explains to him that she cannot be seen with him because of the custody battle. He persuades her to spend a single day with him and, if she wants to continue, to sign the divorce papers; they spend this on Block Island . Alison asks him why he never wanted to bring the truth to light, that Alison contributed to the death of her brother-in-law and could have pleaded for self-defense. Because they miss the last ferry from the excursion island back to the mainland, they spend the night in a hotel. There she tells Noah that she left Joanie because she had psychological problems. Noah's Perspective: A look back shows Noah's time in prison. Alison visits Noah in prison and tells them that she has just returned to Montauk. In the period that followed, the sadistic prison guard John Gunther continued to harass Noah, for example taking away the only copy of a manuscript for his next book. Back in the present, Alison and Noah talk about their traumatic experiences around the deaths of their mothers on Block Island and later have sex. Noah had a nightmare that night about John teasing him in jail for masturbating on the picture of Alison and being locked in solitary confinement for attacking him. After watching Alison pick up her daughter, Noah hallucinates at a red light that he is being followed by John Gunther and being rammed by his pickup, causing Noah to have an accident.
28	6th	Former home	306	Jan. 1, 2017	Jan. 6, 2017	Agnieszka Holland	Alena Smith	0.48 million
Helen's perspective: Noah did not appear for a conversation with Martin at the headmaster's. It's his last chance to graduate from high school since he's already 19 and has already done the senior year twice. While Helen is defending Noah, Martin accuses her of not cutting off all ties with him. Helen then visits Noah with his sister Nina. This accuses Helen of never having really known Noah and of never having seen the emotional baggage caused by the death of his mother. She asks Helen who really drove the accident vehicle. Helen then meets with Max and seduces him, although he is about to get married. When they then sit on the floor, she tries to talk to him about college. Max throws her out because, from his point of view, it's all about Noah again, instead of him and Helen. Martin comes home later and says that he spent the day with Noah at the lake house. Helen drives through the night and finds Noah there hallucinating with someone in the lake. Noah's perspective: Noah brings Juliette back her damaged car. He spends the night in her house and the next day he goes to the house that he inherited from his father. While he is starting to clean it out, he meets old school friends in town and his son Martin, who wants to spend time alone, also comes to Noah's father's house. In the evening, both are invited to dinner at Noah's friends. Noah suddenly feels bad and collapses at home. When he is better, he shows Martin the last letter from his grandmother from the night she died. Through the story from his past, Martin and Noah get closer and Martin promises him to take school more seriously from now on. The next morning, Noah initially thinks that Martin is gone. He goes to the lake and sees someone who looks like Martin. He runs into the water, up close he sees that it is a hallucination of his younger self.
29	7th	You do not know me	307	Jan. 8, 2017	Jan. 13, 2017	Jeffrey Reiner	Anya Epstein	0.65 million
Helen's perspective: Helen is on her way back from the lake house with Noah and takes him home with her. Her boyfriend Vic accuses her of still loving Noah and only supporting him because of that. After lying to Vic several times that Noah was gone again, Vic moves out. Helen confronts Noah with the fact that he is punishing himself and forgives him everything and wants to be with him again. The two have sex. Noah's perspective: On the way back Noah buys a knife from Gunther's family in the hunting and fishing shop and tries to find out more about his tormentor from prison from John's mother. While he sleeps in Helen's basement apartment, he dreams of the time in solitary confinement and how John abused him in prison for no reason. He later hallucinates that Gunther is attacking him in the apartment. When Noah and Helen later have sex, Noah chokes them almost to unconsciousness.
30th	8th	Story without end	308	Jan 15, 2017	Jan. 20, 2017	John Dahl	Stuart Zicherman	0.61 million
Alison's perspective: In the court case for custody of Joanie, Juliette, surprisingly, speaks out in favor of shared custody for everyone involved, and Cole agrees. In a later conversation with Cole, he expresses that he doesn't trust Alison because she lied to him about meeting Noah. Later, Alison visits a young woman who has just lost her child and has attempted suicide, and talks to help her process it. When she tells Cole about it on the way back, he reacts very cautiously and accuses her of a lack of responsibility towards Joanie. In the evening, Alison meets Helen in a bar, whom she has accidentally seen entering and who joins her. They talk about how different Noah was in their two relationships. Alison also wants to tell her that she was at the scene of Cole's brother Scott, which Helen doesn't want to know about. Police later inform Alison that Cole's alibi is void and that he was near the crime scene at the time. Cole's perspective: Louisa explains to Cole that she wants to see what she feels in court and that she wants to end the custody battle. Cole then agrees to the shared guardianship for Joanie. Then he drives to the construction site of his house, which the new site manager has imposed a construction freeze on. Alison stops by Cole with donuts, and unlike what she remembers, the two don't eat together. In the evening Louisa Cole suggests adopting a child. However, he is too exhausted from the long day to talk about it. From the next day Oscar comes to the construction site on behalf of the city administration to warn Cole that he must adhere to the construction freeze. Cole tells him about the affair with his ex-wife Alison. When Alison and Cole are talking about adopting children in the evening, the police appear again to ask for Cole's true alibi. However, he is assaulted one of the police officers and has to spend the night in a cell. Visited Alsison there and he told her he was at Alison's Mental Hospital to talk to the doctor about her mental state. Cole admits to Alison that he still loves her and is unsure whether to leave Louisa. After his release, he talks to Alison one sleepless night. The next morning, Cole decides to stay with Louisa and asks her if she still wants to be with him.
31	9	The manuscript	309	Jan. 22, 2017	Jan. 27, 2017	John Dahl & Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Sutherland & Sarah Treem	0.79 million
Helen's perspective: Helen decides to go with the children to their parents. After her parents rave about Vic, she tells them that Vic left her. When her parents and children talk badly about Noah again, she breaks out that she drove the vehicle involved in the accident. Helen then wants to go to Scott's mother to tell her this. To prevent this, her parents lock Helen in a panic room in the basement. Helen manages to escape, however, and she stops at a bar where Alison meets her. Helen tells her that she drove the accident vehicle. Alison tells her that she knows because she was also at the scene of the accident and Noah knew that all along. That opens Helen's eyes and she catches Vic at the hospital the next morning and tells him why she took care of Noah. Noah's perspective: Noah went to the Gunthers to confront John. John is noticeably different from hallucinations in Noah. When John denies that he is chasing Noah, Noah attacks him with a knife. Noah does not recognize any injuries from John's attack in Helen's basement apartment and realizes that he is hallucinating. Noah realizes that John didn't abuse him in prison and that he injured himself in the neck.
32	10	Paris	310	Jan. 29, 2017	3rd Feb 2017	Jeffrey Reiner	Sarah Treem & Sharr White Idea: Sharr White	0.73 million
Juliette's perspective: Noah is doing better and visits Juliette in Paris. When she comes home in the morning, her demented husband is clear for a brief moment and she enjoys the moment together with her daughter. So far, she had kept the disease secret from the university, where her husband also works. In a conversation with the dean, Juliette clears the table and explains to her that her husband will never be able to work again. The dean then ended Juliette's position at the university, assuming that a large part of Juliette's work could come from her husband. While having lunch with Noah, she learns that her husband has passed away. Noah's perspective: While walking through Paris, Noah happened to see a poster for an exhibition by Furkat, the friend and boss of his daughter Whitney. When he wants to visit the exhibition in the evening, Noah sees how bad Furkat treats his daughter and how Furkat beats her. He persuades Whitney to take a break from exhibition tour with Furkat. The next day, Noah and Whitney fly back to the USA where Whitney arrives just in time to celebrate Christmas with Helen, Vic and their children.

Season 4

The first broadcast of the fourth season was from June 17 to August 19, 2018 on the US cable channel Showtime . The German-language version was published by the video-on-demand provider Prime Video from June 18 to August 20, 2018.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Spectator (USA)
33	1	You are the earthquake	401	17th Jun. 2018	June 18, 2018	Mike Figgis	Sharr White	0.48 million
34	2	Five months, two weeks, two days	402	Jun 22, 2018	Jun 25, 2018	Rodrigo García	Sarah Treem	0.46 million
35	3	You can do it	403	Jul 1, 2018	Jul 2, 2018	Colin Bucksey	Katie Robbins	0.56 million
36	4th	Step by step	404	8 Jul 2018	9 Jul 2018	Rodrigo García	Sarah Treem	0.47 million
37	5	Last letters	405	Jul 15, 2018	16 Jul 2018	Jessica Yu	David Henry Hwang & Sharr White Idea: David Henry Hwang	0.54 million
38	6th	California	406	Jul 22, 2018	23 Jul 2018	Stacie Passon	Lydia Diamond & Sarah Sutherland	0.48 million
39	7th	Night in the desert	407	29 Jul 2018	30 Jul 2018	Colin Bucksey	Jaquén Castellanos & Sarah Sutherland Idea: Lydia Diamond & Sarah Sutherland	0.54 million
40	8th	High waves	408	5th Aug 2018	6 Aug 2018	Michael Engler	Itamar Moses & Sharr White Idea: Itamar Moses	0.51 million
41	9	Another story	409	12 Aug 2018	13 Aug 2018	Sam Gold	Sarah Treem	0.60 million
42	10	Ashes on the beach	410	19th Aug 2018	20 Aug 2018	Rodrigo García	Jaquén Castellanos & Katie Robbins Idea: Katie Robbins & Sarah Treem	0.56 million

Season 5

The first broadcast of the fifth season was from August 25 to November 3, 2019 on the US cable channel Showtime . The German-language version will be published by the video-on-demand provider Prime Video from September 22 to November 29, 2019.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Spectator (USA)
43	1	Why not you	501	25 Aug 2019	22 Sep 2019	Colin Bucksey	Sarah Treem	0.46 million
44	2	Death is heartless	502	Sep 1 2019	27 Sep 2019	Colin Bucksey	Jaquén Castellanos & Katie Robbins	0.42 million
45	3	Full house	503	8 Sep 2019	4th Oct 2019	Steve Fierberg	Itamar Moses	0.41 million
46	4th	The audience	504	Sep 15 2019	Oct 11, 2019	Toa Fraser	Donal Lardner Ward	0.38 million
47	5	The color of sorrow	505	22 Sep 2019	Oct 18, 2019	Eva Vives	Mike Batistick	0.38 million
48	6th	Super moon	506	29 Sep 2019	Oct 25, 2019	Silas Howard	Jaquén Castellanos & Sarah Sutherland	0.43 million
49	7th	Take my pain	507	Oct 6, 2019	Nov 1, 2019	Steve Fierberg	Sarah Sutherland	0.37 million
50	8th	Lasagna for birthday	508	Oct 13, 2019	Nov 8, 2019	Colin Bucksey	Kristina Woo & David Henry Hwang Idea: Kristina Woo & Sarah Treem	0.32 million
51	9	prey	509	Oct. 20, 2019	Nov 15, 2019	Allison Anders	Katie Robbins	0.37 million
52	10	trust me	510	Oct. 27, 2019	Nov 22, 2019	Toa Fraser	Itamar Moses & Sarah Treem Idea: Itamar Moses, Katie Robbins & Sarah Treem	0.44 million
53	11	Memory Motel	511	Nov 3, 2019	Nov 29, 2019	Sarah Treem	Sarah Treem	0.47 million

Web links

• Episode list in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Episode list at TheFutonCritic.com
• List of episodes at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Affair: Season One Ratings . In: TVSeriesFinale.com . December 23, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
2. ^ The Affair: Season Two Ratings . In: TVSeriesFinale.com . December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
3. ^ The Affair: Season Three Ratings . In: TVSeriesFinale.com . January 31, 2017. Accessed February 1, 2017.
4. ^ The Affair: Season Four Ratings . In: TVSeriesFinale.com . July 17, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
5. ^ The Affair: Season Five Ratings . In: TVSeriesFinale.com . August 25, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2019.