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Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
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Critic Reviews
Jan 17, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Showcasing relationship breakdowns, non-monogamous and otherwise, due to the unwillingness or inability to communicate effectively, make up for the more puzzling narrative stumbles. Ultimately, “The Couple Next Door” is no revelation, but it’s still a fun, guilty little treat.
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The GuardianNov 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It succeeds in being sexy rather than cringemaking. This is vanishingly rare and comes courtesy of a clever, layered script that ties each of the narrative strands together perfectly and takes enough time to build every relationship within the foursome to allow what unfolds to feel plausible.
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The TelegraphNov 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Evie, who appears at the outset to be a sensible, sweet-natured type, goes fully bonkers by around episode four. Every five minutes there’s a complete failure of logic, either in terms of plot or production. .... I found the whole thing ridiculous. So ridiculous that I happily binged the lot in two days.
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Radio TimesNov 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There's a distinct lack of subtlety and nuance in The Couple Next Door, with some characters resembling archetypes rather than real, flesh-and-blood people, but it's slickly made and it does have something to say about long-term relationships and the so-called rules we establish for ourselves, sex and desire and how our wants and needs shift over time.
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Jan 17, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Overstuffed with supporting characters whose names you won’t remember and subplots you won’t care about, The Couple Next Door squanders the genuinely interesting tension between the characters at its center in favor of a confrontational, tonally jarring ending that doesn’t even entirely make sense.
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Jan 14, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Heughan and Enoch are fine, making the most out of material that doesn’t dare to give their characters much interiority or, in Pete’s case, even a personality and family backstory. .... The going gets tough once the erotic thriller angle—its saving grace— is shed in favor of laughably predictable, meandering subplots like Danny’s foray into corruption that ties into Pete’s investigative reporting.
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RogerEbert.comJan 15, 2025
Season 1 Review:
When the four aren’t interacting with each other, you can’t help but wonder what the point of this series is. Even if the show were longer, unfortunately, its side characters aren’t interesting enough to warrant any screen time, even though our main characters interact with them enough that they should draw our attention. Instead, the core four actors feel like the only people not sleeping through these scenes.
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Jan 17, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Couple Next Door avoids almost anything thoughtful, and as an erotic thriller, written and directed by men, its top gear stops at “hungry glances” as opposed to actual sexual provocation. Because its stars are inarguably attractive and capable of stirring up at least a modicum of chemistry, there are times when The Couple Next Door maybe lives up to its junk-food aspirations, but it’s mostly thin gruel.
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