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Give Your Brain an ’80s Bubble Bath and Watch Rivals
An unabashedly horny British drama about … a television network in the Cotswolds?
In case you’re not already intimately familiar with the world of Rivals(on Hulu or Disney+ outside the U.S.), it’s based on author Jilly Cooper’s best-selling series of “ bonkbusters,” as they are both affectionately and derogatorily dubbed, set in the fictional village of Rutshire in the Cotswolds. Pretty much everyone gets to participate in some level of intimacy: You’ll bear witness to innumerable affairs, office romances, rolls in the hay, and a hearty serving of longing that, after a fair amount of edging on the show’s part, gets sweetly requited. The show isn’t intentionally camp, and it doesn’t tend to wink at its characters’ predicaments with ironic distance; it’s rather the product of actors committing very seriously to an inherently campy object.
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