Rivals review – this TV joy is so much more than just a romp
It’s not just backcombing, betrayals and bonking in this second part of series two. There are moments of real poignancy Tony Baddingham? Tony Worse-ingham, more like! For reasons best known, one suspects, to streaming…
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It’s not just backcombing, betrayals and bonking in this second part of series two. There are moments of real poignancy Tony Baddingham? Tony Worse-ingham, more like! For reasons best known, one suspects, to streaming giant Disney’s revenue-maximisers, the second series of Rivals has been split up into two parts of six episodes each. We left the rutting folk of Rutshire just after Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell, a sex god by way of Hugh Laurie and once you notice this you can’t unsee it) had broken the news to arch-rival Tony (David Tennant, having the time of his life as the unrepentantly villainous mogul) that his wife, Monica (Claire Rushbrook), had been killed. She drove off into the Great Storm of 1987 after discovering Tony’s affair with Maud (Victoria Smurfit), his bitter enemy’s wife, and demanding – at last – a divorce. One tree later, however, poor Monica’s dreams of…