The central plot of follows Noah as he descends into paranoid psychosis. He moves to a remote cabin in upstate New York to write his next novel, but he becomes obsessed with a mysterious, threatening stranger named Gunther (an unnerving performance by John Doman). The line between reality and hallucination blurs entirely. Is Gunther real? Is Noah losing his mind? Or is this the manifestation of survivor’s guilt?
To understand the value of , one must understand where the characters stand when the season begins. The golden days of the Montauk summer are long gone. The romantic idealism that Noah (Dominick West) and Alison (Ruth Wilson) clung to has curdled into something darker. The Affair Season 3 Complete Pack