Ragesh Dipu
Showtime has unveiled the first teaser trailer for the fifth and final season of the drama series ‘The Affair.’ Tagged as ‘Forgiveness is Hard,’ the 48-second sneak peek features a desperate Noah Solloway (Dominic West) craving for the forgiveness of Helen Butler (Maura Tierney). ‘The Affair’ final season reportedly follows the main characters coming to terms with the aftermath of their random choices in life.
The teaser opens up with a monologue of Noah.
“I would do anything, anything to undo what happened,” he says.
But the following visuals imply that it’s too late for Noah to patch things up with Helen. According to the official logline, Helen falls for a movie star and starts an intoxicating affair in the new season. On the other hand, Noah battles with the perils of managing the family in Helen’s absence. When the two seem to settle with their present, someone from their past surfaces along with a series of unpleasant events.
The teaser also hints a tragic turn in the story when a Range Rover collides head-on with a truck. Though the first look doesn’t reveal the face behind the wheels, Helen is seen running after something in shots intercut with the crash. We are left with the question, was it Noah in the driving seat?
‘The Affair’ which debuted on Showtime on October 12, 2014, is family lore of an affair that ruined two marriages with its emotional and psychological impacts. It takes a brutal act of crime to make them all group together. They go through the crucial but haunting realization that in order to stabilize their future, they must first face the past.
Apart from the Golden Globe nominee Dominic West and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney, the main cast includes Ruth Wilson as Alison Bailey, Joshua Jackson as Cole Lockhart, Julia Goldani Telles and Jadon portray as Noah and Helen’s children Whitney and Trevor Solloway, and Sanaa Lathan as Janelle, Noah’s girlfriend. Anna Paquin joins the cast in the fifth season as Joanie Lockhart, Alison and Cole’s now-adult daughter who comes back to understand what happened to her mother.
Season 5 also features several guest stars including Claes Bang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lyriq Bent, Russell Hornsby, Emily Browning, Omar Metwally, John Doman, Kathleen Chalfant, Max Fowler, Michael Braun, Abigail Dylan Harrison, and Jake Siciliano.
Sarah Treem serves as showrunner and executive producer of the series. Hagai Levi, Jessica Rhoades and Michele Giordano are the other executive producers. The fifth and final season of ‘The Affair’ premieres on Showtime on August 25, 2019.
Check out the first teaser of ‘The Affair’ season 5 below.
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