16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
If you're loving The Couple Next Door S2, here's how to watch the gripping Scandi drama it's based on for free
If like us you're already hooked on the second season of The Couple Next Door and just need a little bit more of the drama, you're in luck!
Unfortunately, this isn't a season three announcement (we'll let you know once we hear more about this).
But, you may or may not already know that the second season of the Channel 4 thriller - which centres around heart surgeon Charlotte (Annabel Scholey), her husband Jacob (Sam Palladio) and their mysterious neighbour Mia (Aggy K. Adams) - is loosely adapted from the Danish series Dopamine - and you can watch it in the UK for free!
Here's everything you need to know.
Dopamine focuses on Maiken who works alongside her boyfriend at the University Hospital, where everything appears picture-perfect on the surface. But beneath the calm, she's grappling with a troubled personal life and a relationship that's slowly unraveling. When new nurse Ida joins the ward, their carefully balanced world is thrown into chaos, much like Charlotte and Jacob's.
The series originally premiered in Denmark on the 31st March 2022 and is made by Kamikaze Film CPH.
Speaking about the inspiration behind the second season of The Couple Next Door, the writer David Alison said: "In terms of the story, we took inspiration very, very loosely from a Danish series called Dopamine but we have had enormous creative freedom to develop it exactly the way we wanted and run in whatever direction we wanted to do, and hopefully that's what we've done."
Dopamine is available to watch for free on Channel
All eight episodes from season one are available to stream directly from there, and they're all about 30 minutes long, so you'll be able to binge the entire series in one afternoon.
The episodes are also available to stream via Apple TV.
Danish actress Amalie Dollerup stars in the lead role of Maiken.
Below is a full cast list:
The Couple Next Door season 2 is currently airing on Channel 4.
