The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and spare.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Dominic WestNoah Solloway
- Maura TierneyHelen Solloway
- Julia Goldani TellesWhitney Solloway
- Jadon SandTrevor Solloway
- Anna PaquinJoanie Lockhart
- Sanaa LathanJenelle Wilson
- Abigail Dylan HarrisonStacey Solloway
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- Sarah TreemCreator
- Hagai LeviCreator
- Marcelo ZarvosOriginal Music Composer
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Seasons
- Season 110 eps · 2014
- Season 212 eps · 2015
- Season 310 eps · 2016
- Season 410 eps · 2018
- Season 511 eps · 2019
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