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Coincidentally, Aidan Turner had previously filmed at Chavenage House (a rival monastery)

Line of Events

Follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as they see their long-running rivalry come to an end. The same filming location was also used to portray Trenwith House in 2015.

In the BBC TV adaptation of Poldark

So obvs read the book ages ago (it was like a coming-of-age ritual in a certain time and place) and TBH remembered very little apart from the odd title (as some of Jilly's creations were very coherent - Rupert Campbell Black says it all - and slightly crossed over into lexicon), but almost immediately I started, if I don't remember the plot wholesale, to get a synaptic image with the intoxicating smell of YSL Opium while watching The Rivals. This adaptation (one ep) seems to fit the bill perfectly.

digging nails at the top

A fool giggles instead of laughing out loud, and curious instead of sincere. It quickly created a world of 1980s, greedy Thatcherite old boys and yuppies, bored wives and terrifying women who treated everything like meat, harmony, cigars and birdsong, English class strata, UK in a globalizing world.

OK, it's a bit panty, panty panto, but FFS why not?!

and the socio-political commentary, while not in your face, is much clearer than when reading the books. Maybe because I'm older and I've met more people, Cooper's criticism of British culture is more obvious, but I think it's also the casting, the accents, the costumes - bringing out each character' s habitus (quoting Bordeaux) and presenting it to an audience for consideration, admiration, disparagement and/or regret.

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