It's sex in the suburbs — and a bad case of kitchen envy
I mentioned last week that watching this stuff (so you don't have to), I get a bad case of kitchen envy. So The Couple Next Door (Channel 4) had me writhing with resentment from scene one. Charlotte and Jacob have a lovely kitchen and use it to cook dinner party dishes such as cod in spelt flour (very 2010, in my book) for a spiky misery of a guest who won't touch it because she's gluten intolerant.
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