What Showtime’s ‘The Affair’ got right about Riverhead: Column
The way the East End is portrayed on television almost always bothers me.
Hollywood producers, many of whom have undoubtedly spent some time out here in the summer months— but not enough — are apt to over-simplify its people.
As Alison Lockhart, the female protagonist in Showtime’s new Montauk-set drama “The Affair” tells character Noah Solloway, portrayed by Dominic West:
“I think you have a fantasy of what life is like out here.”