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  • The Couple Next Door on C4: All the burning questions we have after watching tense episode 2

    The Couple Next Door on C4: All the burning questions we have after watching tense episode 2

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    Channel 4’s swinging drama The Couple Next Door continued this week with episode 2, and the latest instalment included murder (poor fishes), secrets and some serious sexual tension.

    In the second instalment (Tuesday, November 28, 2023), the formerly closeted Evie got a real taste for danger. The teacher, from a very religious, borderline-cult family, has clearly got a case of the hots for her neighbour Danny. And the feeling seems pretty neutral.

    So, when Evie discovered that Danny and Becka partake in couple-swapping, she couldn’t wait to find out more. However, husband Pete didn’t seem as invested in the idea.

    It’s a melting pot of desire and possibilities, and surely only a matter of time before Danny (Sam Heughan) and Evie give in to their desire. Although Danny insisted he’d never break his rule of swinging with friends, the upcoming episode 3 might just prove him wrong.

    Here are all the burning questions we have after watching episode 2 of The Couple Next Door on Channel 4.

    ***Warning: spoilers from The Couple Next Door episode 2 ahead***

    Danny and Evie kissing in The Couple Next Door (Credit: Channel 4)

    Will Danny break his own rule and couple swap with Evie and Pete?

    Danny wants Evie, and Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) wants him back. Danny and Becka are swingers, so surely the solution to all this sexual tension is for them to just do it and get it over with!?

    Not yet, though, as Danny has one rule about his couple swapping activities – not with friends. But with the chemistry between the neighbours so thick you could cut it with a knife, surely the pair will fall into bed soon…

    But does that mean Becka and Pete will indulge in some extra-marital fun, too? If so, we’re pretty sure Pete isn’t someone to be chill about it all! Especially when Evie seems more partial to Danny than she does her own husband.

    The Couple Next Door episode 2: Will Evie get pregnant with Danny’s baby?

    Much of Evie and Pete’s problems stem from their inability to have children. He has “puny sperm” and, after several failed IVF attempts, Evie tragically lost her unborn baby. Now, her own sister is pregnant, causing Evie to lose the plot and murder their pet coy carps. RIP.

    Surely the obvious plot twist here is that Evie will get pregnant with Danny’s baby? Either way, we’re pretty sure it’s going to get very messy!

    Evie, Becka and Danny dance on the beach in The Couple Next Door
    Evie, Becka and Danny dance on the beach in The Couple Next Door (Credit: Channel 4)

    The Couple Next Door episode 2: Is Alan a real threat?

    Forget the main four characters, the star of the show has to be Hugh Dennis‘ slimy performance as pervy Alan. He gives us the serious ick, which is testament to Hugh’s acting skills. I mean, this is the same guy who played affable dad Pete Brockman in Outnumbered…

    In The Couple Next Door episode 2, Alan started to look like a real danger rather than just an obsessed neighbour. We saw him steal the key to Becka and Danny’s house, and make his own copy. He then let himself into their house, went through her camera, and found some pretty intimate stuff.

    The weirdo took copies of the film, and later uploaded the pictures onto a website under the title ‘Not So Pure’. Of course, this was a dig at Becka’s yoga page, Purely Becka. Hurt from the realisation that all of her yoga friends think he’s creepy, and from Danny’s warning to leave Becka alone, Alan is clearly after some revenge…

    But how far will he go?

    Side-note: For a neighbourhood full of “curtain-twitchers”, how on EARTH is Alan able to wander around letting himself into his neighbour’s homes without being spotted?

    Who is Lena and why is Danny giving her money?

    In the second instalment of The Couple Next Door on Channel 4, viewers discovered who has been demanding money off of Danny. But who is Lena, and what is her connection to Danny?

    Why does he owe her money, and why did he want to enter her flat? It certainly wasn’t the thuggish blackmailer we were expecting!

    Deirdre Mullins as Lena in The Couple Next Door (Credit: C4)
    What’s the relationship between Lena and Danny in The Couple Next Door? (Credit: C4)

    The Couple Next Door episode 2: Will Pete report Danny?

    Pete continued to investigate Mr Spencer in the latest episode, and it might just come back to bite him. Mark Frost‘s character is clearly dangerous, and he probably wouldn’t appreciate snoopers.

    Meanwhile, Pete saw Danny doing illegal work for Spencer. Could he report Danny, or use it against him later?

    Of course, Danny has enough on his plate after his last job off the books went horribly wrong. It could well be his life on the line, if not his job. All will be revealed in episode 3 next week!

    Read more: The Couple Next Door cast includes Outlander’s Sam Heughan, Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson, and Harry Potter star Alfred Enoch

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    The Couple Next Door continues with episode 3 on Monday, December 4, 2023 at 9pm.

    What do you think of The Couple Next Door so far? Leave us a comment on our Facebook page @EntertainmentDailyFix.

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  • Today in History: December 2, Senate condemns McCarthy

    Today in History: December 2, Senate condemns McCarthy

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    Today in History

    Today is Friday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2022. There are 29 days left in the year.

    Today’s Highlight in History:

    On Dec. 2, 1954, the U.S. Senate passed, 67-22, a resolution condemning Republican Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, saying he had “acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

    On this date:

    In 1823, President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

    In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October.

    In 1942, an artificially created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago.

    In 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first full-scale commercial nuclear facility in the U.S., began operations. (The reactor ceased operating in 1982.)

    In 1980, four American churchwomen were raped and murdered in El Salvador. (Five national guardsmen were convicted in the killings.)

    In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.

    In 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN’).

    In 2000, Al Gore sought a recount in South Florida, while George W. Bush flatly asserted, “I’m soon to be the president” and met with GOP congressional leaders.

    In 2001, in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history, Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection.

    In 2015, a couple loyal to the Islamic State group opened fire at a holiday banquet for public employees in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 21 others before dying in a shootout with police.

    In 2016, a fire that raced through an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, during a dance party killed 36 people.

    In 2020, in a video released on social media, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, unspooling one misstatement after another to back his baseless claim that he really won. Britain became the first country in the world to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine, giving the go-ahead for emergency use of the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech.

    Ten years ago: Hundreds of concrete slabs, each weighing more than a ton, fell from the roof of a highway tunnel west of Tokyo, crushing vehicles below and killing nine people. Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Led Zeppelin, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova received Kennedy Center Honors.

    Five years ago: President Donald Trump changed his story on why he fired Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, now suggesting that he knew at the time that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russians. ABC News suspended investigative reporter Brian Ross for four weeks without pay for an erroneous report about Flynn. (Ross had reported that then-candidate Trump had directed Flynn to make contact with the Russians; Ross clarified the report hours later, saying that his source now said Trump had not done so as a candidate, but as president-elect.)

    One year ago: Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that gun manufacturers could not be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip because a state law shielded them from liability unless the weapon malfunctioned. Jason Meade, the Ohio sheriff’s deputy who shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times as the Black man entered his grandmother’s house, was charged with murder, as Goodson’s family also filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. (Meade has pleaded not guilty.) Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired and owners immediately locked out players.(An agreement would end the lockout after 99 days; the start of the season was delayed by about a week.)

    Today’s Birthdays: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III is 91. Actor Cathy Lee Crosby is 78. Movie director Penelope Spheeris is 77. Actor Ron Raines is 73. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 72. Actor Keith Szarabajka is 70. Actor Dan Butler is 68. Broadcast journalist Stone Phillips is 68. Actor Dennis Christopher is 67. Actor Steven Bauer is 66. Country singer Joe Henry is 62. Rock musician Rick Savage (Def Leppard) is 62. Actor Brendan Coyle is 59. Rock musician Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) is 54. Actor Suzy Nakamura is 54. Actor Rena Sofer is 54. Rock singer Jimi (cq) HaHa (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 54. Actor Lucy Liu (loo) is 54. U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is 53. Rapper Treach (Naughty By Nature) is 52. Actor Joe Lo Truglio is 52. International Tennis Hall of Famer Monica Seles is 49. Singer Nelly Furtado is 44. Pop singer Britney Spears is 41. Actor-singer Jana Kramer is 39. Actor Yvonne Orji is 39. Actor Daniela Ruah (roo-ah) is 39. NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers is 39. Actor Alfred Enoch is 34. Pop singer-songwriter Charlie Puth is 31.

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