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Mickan does everything to show how successful she is when an old tormentor from high school moves into Solsidan. Alex is struggling to come up with a good birthday present for Anna.

Alex is reluctantly involved when Wilma's class sells barbecue spices and Fredde feels threatened by some younger shooting stars at work.

Fredde fakes burnout to get more time for his other interests, but quickly realizes that he made a mistake. Ove and Anette act as airbnb hosts for a young couple who do not really share their penchant for socializing and surcharge

Alex suffers devastating self-doubt when he and Anna travel away for some romantic free time. Eva and Rune look after the children, but a blackout begins when they lose Wilma. At the same time,

Mickan makes a plan to reveal Suzy's dark sides in connection with a large mingling event. Ove settles in as an extra on Anna's filming and Alex agrees to a lunch date with a familiar face that he can not place

Fredde wants nothing better than to return to his job, but first Ludde needs to be reminded of his excellence. Mickan is appalled by Viktor's high school plans and Alex is frustrated that Anna spends all her time listening to audio books.

Alex and Anna look forward to an unpretentious couple's dinner, but the evening degenerates when the invitation list expands in an unwanted direction. Mickan panics when her brand new clothes end up at Myrorna.

Anna has gone to Hungary and Alex is left with Palle who does not contribute the least to the housework. Fredde and Mickan suffer from lack of sleep as a result of Viktor's loud sex life and soon Fredde's beloved man-cave is at stake.

Alex has been charging for a child-free TV weekend when he is suddenly taken on Wilma's school trip to the primitive Viking village. Mickan is told that ADHD is super trendy and can be investigated by a psychologist.

Alex steps wrong when he tries to dodge a poker night at Ove's. Fredde receives a tempting offer to try different barbecue products for Eric Kenneby, but Mickan's frosty relationship with Suzy puts the brakes on.

Mickan is going through a 40-year crisis and wants to turn Saltsjöbaden's tennis club into a beach club, named after herself. Ove and Anette pull in a little extra money as foster parents for a teenager and Alex is tried hard at home

Fredde is a true friend and questions Alex's privacy, which has major consequences for Alex and Anna's marriage. Mickan receives, in her eyes, appalling news regarding her daughter Chloe's school start and relives an old childhood trauma.

When Fredde is to be interviewed by Dagens Industri, Mickan is triggered to make an impression on his own, online. At the same time, Fredde takes the children with her to eat kebabs in Fisksätra.

Fredde and Mickan have become persona non grata in Solsidan, something they are desperately trying to handle. Anna's parents Eva and Rune invite themselves to dinner at Alex's and old secrets come to the surface.

Mickan decides to get out of the woman trap and get his own career. Anette and Ove are predicted in coffee grounds by Anna's brother Palle, who sees unpleasant things in the coffee cup.

We get to see the consequences of Ove's terrible accident - Alex is dating a girl who offers to be his new personal trainer. Anette makes a life-changing discovery.

Anna returns from filming in Hungary and discovers that a romance rumor abounds about her and Måns Zelmerlöw. Fredde and Mickan get to meet Alex's new girl Lisa for the first time and are invited to a party.

Fredde and Mickan go to a party at Zacke, which makes Fredde start thinking about what really drives him in life. Mickan is in a constant quarrel with his daughter Ebba and asks Alex and his new girl Lisa to come and be supernannies.

Mickan tries to suppress that her 40th birthday is approaching by leaps and bounds and Fredde panics about what he should give Mickan as a present. Alex wonders about how serious the relationship between him and Lisa really is.

Alex gets help from a football dad to go out on Tinder, which leads to an unexpected date. Fredde realizes that he has not chosen any of his own clothes for several years and begins to search for his true fashionable self.

Alex is moving with his pregnant girlfriend Anna from Stockholm City to his childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, a wealthy suburb at the sea. They are welcomed by Alex's childhood friend Fredde and his wife Mickan, who live in the most luxurious house in the area with their two children, Victor and Ebba. When Anna is entering her new home, she finds to her astonishment that her mother-in-law, the widow Margaretha, is still there, although she should have moved out by now. The problem is that Alex hasn't dared to tell his mother clearly that he and Anna want to live alone. Margaretha thinks that she can keep a bedroom of her own in their house. Fredde helps Alex to cut down a tree in the garden. The tree falls in the wrong direction, thereby scratching a boat in Tord Malmberg's garden. Alex hated Malmberg already as a child, and now he still has this pest close by.

At an ultrasonic examination Alex and Anna are told that their baby will be delivered on August 4th. When Fredde tells Alex that 20 % of all fathers in Sweden aren't the real fathers of their children, Alex gets worried. He counts 40 weeks backwards from August 4th, and finds out that the baby must have been procreated in the end of November. But in that period Anna spent three weeks in Skåne, making a new movie. Alex finds out that the film contains erotic scenes between Anna and the actor Ola Rapace. Now he is quite sure that Ola Rapace is the real father of his baby. He confides this to Fredde, who cannot resist spreading the news to his wife Mickan. Anna is met with aversion, but cannot understand why. Some days later the midwife corrects herself, and says that the baby will be delivered on August 24th. Alex realizes his mistake, but Anna has hard to forgive him.

Alex and Anna are discussing possible names for their unborn baby, and immediately find out that their opinions are contradictory. Alex finds Anna's names too peculiar, and she finds his too old-fashioned. Alex is unpacking a new high-pressure cleaner, when his neighbor Ove Sundberg turns up and wants to borrow it. Alex tries to say no in a polite, indirect way, but Ove quickly walks away with the new machine. Fredde warns Alex against lending anything to Ove, because it's very hard to get it back. The only strategy that works is to contra-borrow something of the same or higher value from Ove. He describes Ove as extremely avaricious, and Alex learns the truth of this, when he and Anna are invited to a naming ceremony for Ove's baby. Ove succeeds in getting the guests to contribute economically to the rent of the banquet hall. At last Alex presses Ove to lend him a log splitter, not knowing that Ove's wife Anette for a long time had tried to convince her husband to get rid of this machine.

Alex and Anna have invited Fredde and Mickan to Sunday dinner. Alex has prepared a very special risotto, and worked hard on it, but Fredde dismisses the dish with ironic remarks. He finishes the ensuing discussion by inviting Alex and Anna to lunch the coming Wednesday. Alex is offended by Fredde's ironies, and understands the lunch invitation as a declaration of war. The Wednesday lunch is an artisanal extravagance, although Fredde declares that he prepared it in haste. What he doesn't tell Alex and Anna is that he actually hired a chef for the cooking. Alex is devastated by Fredde's success, and invites Fredde and Mickan to a new dinner, where he shall outmatch Fredde. Mickan invites Anna to follow her to a gym. Anna hates such activities, but is too polite to say no. At the gym she pretends to be an experienced visitor, although she doesn't know what the others are talking about.

Alex is shopping in a super market, when he bumps into a woman called Sofi, who he hasn't met since they left school. She was the most gorgeous girl in their class, but now Alex thinks she has lost almost all her beauty. On his way home Alex starts thinking if he also has become old and unattractive. He tries to convince his wife Anna that they should go to a disco, like they did when they were young, but she refuses. He asks Fredde to join him, but Fredde has to prepare the birthday party for his 5 year old son Victor the following day. Fredde is desperate, because the only thing Victor wants as a birthday present is a Labrador puppy, but you have to order that from a kennel several weeks in advance. The only option for Fredde this evening is to buy an 11 year old, limping Labrador from an immigrant. Alex succeeds to get Ove to accompany him to the disco. Sofi is there, but when Alex asks her for a dance, she says no, just as she did when they were young. Ten minutes later she dances with Ove.