Get ready to see Outlander star Sam Heughan in a whole new light. The Jamie Fraser actor is showing off his darker side in the first teaser for Starz’s steamy psychological thriller The Couple Next Door. Heughan plays an alpha male traffic cop who gets caught up in a relationship with his new neighbor (played by Poldark ’s Eleanor Tomlinson ) in the six-episode limited series, which is based on the book by Shari Lapena.
And based on what we’ve seen so far, Outlander fan s are definitely going to want to tune in. What is ‘The Couple Next Door’ about? The Couple Next Door follows two couples living in an upscale suburban neighborhood full of “curtain twitching and status anxiety.” New residents Evie (Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch) form a fast friendship with the couple living next door, Danny (Heughan) and his yoga instructor wife Becka (Jessica De Gouw).
Gradually, the two pairs grow closer until, one night, they become sexually entangled with each other in a way that ends up changing their lives forever. “The main theme of the show is desire and what happens when ordinary people cross their own moral boundaries,” executive producer Jo McGrath explained to TV Insider earlier this year. “It’s the anticipation of this forbidden sex, that slow-burning obsession which will eventually ignite in spectacular fashion and which makes this a very sexy series.
” Sam Heughan’s ‘The Couple Next Door’ character has some similarities to Jamie Fraser Heughan�.
