[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Couple Next Door, Season 1 Episode 1, “Welcome to Suburbia.”]
The Couple Subsequent Door has lastly arrived on Starz and it feels as if a ticking time bomb is about to go off in suburbia as couple Danny (Sam Heughan) and Becka (Jessica De Gouw) meet latest neighbors, Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch).
Danny is a site visitors cop and Becka’s a yoga teacher, however they’ve received fairly a progressive view on the subject of marriage, agreeing to have an open relationship so long as their extracurricular actions are a bunch endeavor. That’s fairly a leap from the brand new couple on the block, who’ve been collectively since college and predict a child.
Issues take a startling flip although as Evie, a instructor, is advised by certainly one of her college students that she will be able to’t really feel the infant. This prompts Evie to get a checkup and it’s revealed she’s had a late-term miscarriage. Is that the catalyst for the journey she’ll take this season? Tomlinson teases, “I believe that’s positively the factor that units it off. I believe that Evie desires to get as far-off from her life and her existence as attainable. She’s in a lot ache.”
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It’s clear she sees one thing particular in Danny and Becka’s dynamic as she observes their free-loving conduct from throughout the road. However what she sees as a distraction from a horribly tragic occasion might additionally spell the demise of her relationship as Pete was instantly suspicious of Danny, regardless of him not exhibiting any outward preliminary romantic curiosity in Evie.
“It’s positively all about Pete’s insecurity,” Enoch tells TV Insider. “He sees this muscley and engaging [guy who] rides a motorcycle, and he goes ‘That’s simply an excessive amount of.’ So he type of hides behind the humor.”
For now, Evie’s fascination with Danny and Becka could also be greater than anybody has bargained for, particularly contemplating a number of the shady actions Danny finds himself wrapped up in. A colleague of Danny’s asks if he desires to make some further money, however that entails some prison exercise that will or might not come again to hang-out him.
“I believe the viewers will definitely make some assumptions about his motives behind why he’s doing these items,” Heughan admits of his character. “The explanations behind [the extra job] will not be as black and white as you could assume. He does make some fairly dangerous selections and he does have fairly an enormous secret in life outdoors of his extra conventional one with Becka, which can be not conventional,” he says with fun.
Whereas Danny finds himself embroiled in some shady work engagements and unknowingly within the crosshairs of Evie, whose attraction to him is hinted at throughout a neighborhood motorbike experience and longing stare via the rain within the episode’s remaining moments, there’s much more potential bother brewing within the type of Alan (Hugh Dennis).
He’s one other member of the neighborhood, and it’s clear fairly early on that this man has an obsession with Danny’s spouse, Becka. Together with taking her yoga courses, Alan has managed to make fairly a setup for himself within the upstairs of his house, utilizing a telescope to spy on Becka when she’s out and about, and lurking on social media.
“I believe Alan throughout the highway is type of malevolent presence — she encounters him and actually misreads him,” De Gouw says of Becka’s stalker. “There’s an enormous consequence to that by way of the way in which that he feels it as a rejection. She’s seen on-line, and that’s her enterprise. After which there’s this one that appears like he’s been wronged and due to this fact goes to very strategically punish her for it.”
How will all of it play out? You’ll should preserve tuning in to see it unfold as The Couple Subsequent Door airs on Starz.
The Couple Subsequent Door, Fridays, 9/8c, Starz