SARAH TREEM: 'THE AFFAIR' WON'T PAY OFF UNTIL SEASON 3 

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creator Sarah Treem insisted to ELLE on the red carpet before the Golden Globes last night. "

is going to win and they\'ll deserve it." Treem was wrong: Her fledgling Showtime series triumphed over Netflix\'s 

) to win the Best Television Drama award, underscoring the fact that

is a deeply interesting show, even if it\'s not the most famous one.

In its first season, the show followed the beginning of an affair between two married people, played by Dominic West and Ruth Wilson, in a surprising way: alternating perspectives, giving viewers both the female and male side of the story. That approach alone was enough to make it stand out, but Treem isn\'t resting on her laurels. She has big plans for the show\'s second season and has actually thought the narrative out through at least

"What we had always said when we started the show was that each season was going to represent a different stage in a love affair," Treem said. "The first season is the crush, the melodrama. It\'s the romance of that early feeling of \'I can\'t live without you.\' So the tone of the season reflected that. And then the second season was always supposed to be darker. It\'s what happens when the blush is off the rose, when people doubt each other, when they start to get obsessed with each other. I think the second season is going to be darker in tone, and tighter. And the third season changes again. I will be sad if we don\'t get a third because I don\'t think it quite pays off until the third season."

So far viewers have only seen two sides of the story: that of grieving Hamptons waitress Alison (Ruth Wilson) and that of Noah (Dominic West), a novelist father of four. But Treem hopes that we will get to see other versions of the narrative as well. "That was always the intent for the second season, to increase perspectives," she said. "As we start talking about the season, there\'s so much we want to do with Noah and Alison that we\'re going to see. But at this point I would say the intent is to broaden the perspectives."

On top of the show\'s Best Television Drama award, star Ruth Wilson also won Best Actress in a Television Drama for her work on the show. And it

hard work: In the press room after the Globes, Wilson told reporters that the "relentless grief," the need to dig into Alison\'s sadness, was exhausting.  "I loved the fact that I could play different versions of this character and I got a respite from playing Noah\'s version of her and my version," Wilson said. "It was each scene that used to throw her into more depths of despair, and I would say I had to go in deep and darker and explore this character and that was hard, especially with the time we have filming, little time, and being away from home. So by the end that was quite exhausting, but in the same way incredibly satisfying."

Yet for Maura Tierney, who plays Noah\'s scorned wife on the show, the story was what drew her in. "I wanted to do it because I loved the writing," the actress told ELLE. "I think people have responded to it for a lot of reasons. There\'s a lot of sex on it, which people like. I think people like the split narrative and that it takes on infidelity in a way that\'s complicated." Added one of the show\'s lesser-discussed standouts, Julia Goldani Telles, who plays Noah\'s oldest daughter, Whitney, "[Winning the award] just confirms my idea that this is a really special show." 

Treem herself has been overwhelmed by the massive reaction the series has gotten since it premiered in October. "People\'s responses to the show are so different that it sometimes feels like I\'m making a hundred different shows," Treem said. "When people love the show I\'m really happy and when people hate the show I\'m honestly really happy. It means that people care about the show. We just wanted to be part of the conversation."

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