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Where to watch Rivals season 2 as critics hail it a five-star hit
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Where to watch Rivals season 2 as critics hail it a five-star hit

The Independent·Alice Reynolds·18 days ago
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Rivals is back. The second season of the Rutshire romp promises even more outrageousness, bonking and eighties excess – if the trailer tells us anything, tensions are hotter than ever. Adapted from the late Dame Jilly Cooper’s cult Rutshire Chronicles , the series is a biting satire of Britains affluent rural set. The first season had us hooked on its hedonism, vengeful rivalries and forbidden affairs – and season two is set to be just as enjoyable. The Independent’s chief TV critic Nick Hilton described it as “well-written, well-acted and enormously fun”, while The Guardian awarded it five-stars and wrote, “if I could give this exquisite bonkbuster 10,000 stars, I would.” Following a ruthless battle for control over a local television franchise, the TV show centres on the fued between ex-Olympian Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and media mogul Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant).…

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