But they take all kinds of different shapes β it's a test to see if you'll cheat, or there's a chance the person is ugly, or you have to get married, or whatever. They certainly have wildly varying levels of sex. The Bachelor takes a kind of "and then the door closes and the music plays and you definitely do not even hear anybody making any noises," while some other shows will give you considerably more than that. They all have mess, too. Not just mess, but messy messy mess. As I was telling a friend this week, Peacock's Couple to Throuple is really just more mess and it's on the high end for the amount of sex you'll see , and in that sense it's very conventional.
But at least it's a different kind of mess than most other shows offer, particularly on mainstream outlets. The setup is this: Four couples arrive at a resort.
A bunch of single people also show up. The other is two men, Rehman and Ashmal. All of the couples have some experience with experimentation with other people, but not in this kind of throuple arrangement. The show brings in some single people, all of whom also have some relevant experience, and each couple gets to pick one to try out as a possible third for their relationship.
If you think this sounds kind of strange and possibly a little unfair to the single person, that does come up. I want to make clear that there is nothing inherently salacious about polyamory. There are plenty of people who make it work. So when I say the show is joyfully trashy, that's because of the show, not the relationship structure. After all, you can make joyfully trashy shows about couples, too.
There's also nothing particularly new about the throuple life if you happen to know people who do it or have tried it, which an increasing number of us do. But at least it's new mess.
