It's Time to Meet the New 'Couple Next Door' for Season 2

Season 1 of The Couple Next Door was a deeply disappointing watch for our recapper, who hoped the new Starz series would be another chance to ogle Sam Hueghan, one half of the leading couple in Outlander. However, unlike Starz's long-running hit, The Couple Next Door was not a female-gaze oriented romance, just set in the present day and between two sets of neighbors living in the same cul de sac. Instead, it was an oddly anti-poly, "having group sex outside of marriage makes you lose your mind" morality tale, in which characters seemed to go off the deep end from a single night of sex. Though Season 2 has fewer partners, viewers should brace for the same prejudices.

Season 2 will not bring back the mentally distressed foursome from the first season. However, we hopefully will get an update as to how they're doing, considering two of them took bullets in the Season 1 finale and one wound up being carted off to prison. But with all four now out of the neighborhood (and Jessica De Gouw's Becka someplace far away from all of this drama), the houses have been sold (in one case) and let (in the other).

In the first house, a nice-looking married couple has recently taken jobs at the local hospital and bought into what they think is a safe and secure area. In the other, a single woman has leased the property, someone the new couple knows and works with, who decided to rent nearby after hearing they were so pleased with the area. Well, at least, that's what she's telling people...