The Swingers returns to Walter Presents for Season 3
David Farnor | On 13, Jul 2019
Walter Presents is heading back to The Netherlands this summer to catch up with some of the country’s most dramatic couples. A year on from Season 2, The Swingers are back for a third run.
Thee dark family drama – known as Nieuwe Buren, or “New Neighbours”, in its home country – follows Eva (Bracha van Doesburgh) and Peter (Daan Schuurmans), who move from Amsterdam into a quiet neighbourhood on the city outskirts. There, they find themselves getting to know their next door neighbours’ dark secrets in… increasingly intimate ways.
An enormous success in the Netherlands, The Swingers is currently the highest performing show on its native VOD platform (Videoland) and had a fourth season commissioned before the third had even premiered.
Two years after their gunpoint confrontation with Steef, Season 3 picks up as Eva and Peter are finally getting married. Despite everything they’ve been through they finally seem happy but with Steef still on the loose, their bliss might not last long…
Eva and Peter are hoping to officially adopt Steffi’s daughter, Roosje, who they’ve been fostering for two years. But after discovering Steffi’s ex, Milo, is Roosje’s biological father, their idyllic life in the suburbs is threatened once again. Meanwhile, Lily is out of jail and reunited with lover Carl, but once she finds out their garage business has gone under, she embarks on shady dealings for her friends still in prison. With Eva already brewing up a feud with their new neighbour, Milo’s stepdaughter caught up in teenage shenanigans and Lily struggling to cope, life for the neighbours is about to get a whole lot more difficult.
The hit Dutch series stars Daan Schuurmans and Bracha van Doesburgh who are married in real life. Season 3 premieres on Channel 4 on 21st July, with all episodes then available to stream on Walter Presents immediately after its broadcast.
The Swingers returns to Walter Presents for Season 2 this June
19th May 2018
Update: The Swingers Season 2 will now premiere on Channel 4 on 17th June 2018 at 10.05pm.
The Swingers is coming back this summer for a second run.
The nail-biting, dark, Dutch family drama – known as Nieuwe Buren, or “New Neighbours”, in its home country – follows Eva (Bracha van Doesburgh) and Peter (Daan Schuurmans), who move from Amsterdam into a quiet neighbourhood on the city outskirts. There, they find themselves getting to know their next door neighbours’ dark secrets in… increasingly intimate ways.
An enormous success in the Netherlands, The Swingers is currently the highest performing show on its native VOD platform (Videoland) and had a fourth series commissioned before the third had even premiered. Uniquely, each series centres around two couples played by actors who are also couples in real life.
Season 2 returns to the same suburban streets one year after the dramatic ending to Season 1. The neighbourhood hasn’t changed, yet events have turned our characters’ lives upside down. As the fallout of that continues, Eva befriends her new neighbours Steffi and Lex and their kids, who are completely unaware of last year’s drama and are preoccupied with their own messy web of lies. Presenting herself as a babysitter, Eva finds a way into their lives and soon starts plotting the fulfilment of her lifelong wish: a family of her own.
Episode 1 of Season 2 will premiere at 10pm on Sunday 3rd June on Channel 4, with the entire box set available on All 4 straight after. Season 1, meanwhile, is still available on Walter Presents. Catch up with our review here – or read our interview with the lead actors.