The Affair isn’t short on high-stakes exchanges. As the series flips from smouldering romance to nail-biting drama, novelist Noah (Dominic West) seems to know all the right words to woo Alison – no matter how dark the situation. Here are a few of his inimitable lines: “Sometimes I worry you’re just a really great dream.” “I can’t sleep! If I do, when I wake up I’m thinking about you.” “Is there a green light at the end of your dock?”

This gripping series explores the seamy underworld of Baltimore – and the cops tasked with cleaning it up. Our main man in the police department is Jimmy McNulty who – in spite of his womanising, drinking and intimidation of co-workers – is a good officer with both the skills and the heart for the job. He may bend the rules sometimes, but who doesn’t? Viewers follow the story through the eyes of law enforcers and drug dealers, and see the game of cat and mouse between cops and criminals – with disturbing parallels emerging between the two.