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Coincidentally, Aidan Turner had previously filmed at Chavenage House (Prieria from Rivals)

Scenario

Follow Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as their long-standing rivalry comes to a head. The same filming location was used to depict Trenwith House in the 2015 BBC TV adaptation of Poldark.

It’s a pretty perfect modern adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s book

That’s almost a compliment and that’s entirely due to the excellent cast & some occasional cracked text. That said – in terms of writing, the dialogue gets noticeably more awkward around episode 5.

A good laugh and a nice break from the hype of heavy-but-not-classic crime dramas

I don’t know if it’s a writer change or if the writing team burned out on a pretty ambitious production, but it’s annoying. But like all of Cooper’s work, in any form, it was always going to veer towards a soapy tone, and the fact that it mostly isn’t is really impressive – but it IS funny.

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