Watch: Trailer Drops for Polyamorous Reality Show 'Couple to Throuple'

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 5 MIN.

Don't expect the show to be nothing but three-way hand-holding, though. There's plenty of drama afoot across the show's 10 episodes, starting with Howard putting the couples to the test by having them "watch... your partner get intimate with your chosen third."

Furniture is hurled and furious outbursts ensue... as do "uncontrollable boners," as Williams admits.

At another moment, Rehman leaps into the arms of a new fellow; in another clip, Ashmal is busy tonguing the ear of his own assignation.

Evans poses the question of whether committed new relationships will be forged. "Or will the experience reveal that the throuple life is not for them?"

"Tension?" a dark-haired man from the pool of singles asks. "You can cut it with a fucking knife!"

A moment later, "Have you done something alone with him?" Rehman demands, before the camera cuts to Ashmal with downcast eyes.

While "many" of the "singles" hoping to be added into existing relationships "are experienced in polyamory," according to the show's synopsis, it seems that the four couples are prepared only with their hopes and fantasies, and not necessarily any background in a relationship configuration that adherents say is based on equal respect for all involved.

Fireworks are bound to fly. "With three times the fun, the feelings, and drama, these relationships are put through the ultimate test to see if they are the perfect match," the synopsis promises.

"At the end of their time in paradise, the couples will decide if their hearts have room for more than just 'the one' and commit as a throuple, go home as they arrived, or leave separately."

The potential for life-altering consequences is one way in which the show is similar to "The Ultimatum," a queer edition of which Netflix aired last year. In that case, several couples – all of the people in which were either female or non-binary – had reached a point at which one person in the relationship wanted a firm and long-term commitment, or they'd be prepared to walk. "The Ultimatum" mixed the couples with a number of available singles to see whether the existing relationships would endure, and perhaps even be strengthened, and not all of them did.

Will "Couple to Throuple" have similar results? Or will the pairs that arrive at the exotic destination depart as triads?

"Couple to Throuple" streams on Peacock starting Feb. 8.


by Kilian Melloy

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