
Scripted series · BBC Two
Coupling
The naughty new comedy about nothing...but SEX!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Coupling actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Coupling reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 28 episodes.

Season 0 · Unannounced
Specials
12 episodes

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20006 episodes
7.5IMDbBest episode · S01E05 The Girl with Two Breasts

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20019 episodes
6.1IMDbBest episode · S02E01 The Man with Two Legs

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
20027 episodes
7.6IMDbBest episode · S03E03 Unconditional Sex

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
20046 episodes
7.2IMDbBest episode · S04E01 Nine and a Half Minutes
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E05
The Girl with Two Breasts
Jeff and co. can't take their eyes of a beautiful stranger in their local bar. And the girl can't take her eyes off Jeff. Jeff goes over to talk to her, only to discover that she doesn't speak a word of English, which to Jeff of course is quite a relief. Her interpreter, Alice, tells Jeff she's Israeli, then whisks her away. The next day the girl is back and Jeff attempts to chat her up. With neither speaking a word of the other's language, it is an utter disaster.
- Written by Steven Moffat

S01E02
Size Matters
Susan invites Steve for a date at home, and offers to cook. Jeff warns him about 'The Sock Gap', and Patrick alerts him to her collection of remote controls. Somehow everyone's conversation seems to revolve around Patrick's size, and Jeff is asked by several people to accompany him to the toilet to check.
- Written by Steven Moffat

S01E03
Sex, Death & Nudity
Jeff explains to the guys about 'The Giggle Loop': the danger that the more you try to suppress laughter in important silences, the harder you want to laugh. Jane's aunt has died, and she wants Steve to come to the funeral, pretending to be her boyfriend still. Susan invites herself, and so Patrick must come as her 'boyfriend', and all six end up going.
- Written by Steven Moffat

S01E04
Inferno
Steve is plunged into total panic when he suspects that Susan has found one of his porn videos. To fill the embarrassing silence, he tells her he loves her, but Susan is well-aware that he was merely panicking. Susan invites all the friends over for a dinner party. Jane brings her therapist, Jill, who everyone assumes is there as Jane's date. In front of everyone, Susan insists that Steve justify his passion for the offending porn film, Lesbian Spank Inferno.
- Written by Steven Moffat

S01E06
The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
Patrick has a cupboard of video tapes of his former girlfriends, not to mention Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man. Jeff is excited, but Steve is appalled, when he realizes that Susan must be amongst them. Susan is also horrified when she realizes this in the company of the other girls. Later on, she arrives at Patrick's, and is outraged at what she finds going on there.
- Written by Steven Moffat

S03E01
Split
Steve and Susan have had an argument about their future, and Susan storms out of Steve's flat in tears. While Steve tries repeatedly to ring Susan, his courage failing every time, the girls are locked in a debate over the merits of 1471, and what it means if the phone "chirps". Eventually the tension at both ends of the phone gets too much. The boys and the girls set out for "the Temple of Woman': in the girls' case, a beauty salon; in the boys' case, a lap dancing club.
- Written by Steven Moffat
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Sophie Clarke-JervoiseExecutive Producer
- Beryl VertueExecutive Producer
- Sue VertueProducer
- Geoffrey PerkinsExecutive Producer
Writing
- Steven MoffatWriter
Direction
- Martin DennisDirector
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