Culture Chat: the bonkbuster world of ‘Rivals’

FT Everything Else by Forhecz Topher

Nov 1, 202431:12Society & Culture

Today we head to Rutshire, to take a crack at the frothy, riotous TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 1980s romance novel, Rivals . The eight-episode series follows a cluster of posh English country-dwellers – including TV e...

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