Life, death, and love in a new three-part series from Louis Theroux. I imagine there’ll be more than a little controversy over this.

“In the first episode of Louis Theroux’s Altered States (BBC2), a three-part series exploring “the new ways Americans are approaching some of humanity’s oldest dilemmas”, Theroux meets couples, “throuples” and beyond, who have opened up their relationships in an attempt to escape the stifling boundaries of monogamy.

“Some, it seems, have done so with more success than others.

“Amanda, Nick and Bob, Dungeons and Dragons-loving IT workers, are in a three-way relationship – although Nick and Bob aren’t romantically attached.

“Theroux, a glint in his eye, encourages the trio to demonstrate their night-time spooning ritual.”

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