It has been an affair to remember and now it’s coming to an end. Showtime has renewed its critical favorite, The Affair, for a fifth and final season.
The show has four episodes left in its current season, with the season finale set to air August 19. Showtime has this to say about the renewal and its final season:
“We love the intimacy, the nuance and the emotional honesty of The Affair‘s subjective examination of both infidelity and fidelity. [Co-creator and Showrunner] Sarah Treem has always envisioned this as a five-season series, and we will be fascinated to see where she takes her talented cast and all of us next year in its climactic season.”
Season four of The Affair has relocated Noah Solloway (Dominic West), ex-wife Helen (Maura Tierney), their kids and Helen’s boyfriend Vic (Omar Metwally) from New York to Los Angeles, while Alison (Ruth Wilson) and Cole (Joshua Jackson) are forging new paths on Long Island. They’ve drifted farther apart, but their lives also remain intertwined. The season’s early episodes also set up a mystery involving Alison’s whereabouts, and the main timeline is gradually catching up to that moment.
The Affair has received widespread acclaim since its debut, with the show picking up three Golden Globe awards throughout its run. That includes a win for best drama series in 2015 and best actress in a drama series for Ruth Wilson that same year. Tierney was also nominated for an Emmy for supporting actress in a drama series in 2016 and won the Golden Globe in that category the same year.
