Series Details & Credits
| HULU | Release Date: October 18, 2024 |
Summary:
The rivalry between Olympian turned politician Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and television executive Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant) is at the center of the 1980s set adaptation of the Jilly Cooper's second Rutshire Chronicles novel of the same name.
[Airs in the US on Hulu and on Disney+ for the rest of the world]
[Airs in the US on Hulu and on Disney+ for the rest of the world]
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Positive:
12
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
The Guardian
Oct 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It has all paid off. Cooper’s books are about joyfully indulging your appetites and knowing that literary (or televisual) escapism is not a sin but a very necessary part of being a human. Disney has taken the business of bringing her Rutshire vision to life just as seriously and with just as light a touch as they needed.
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The Telegraph
Oct 7, 2024
Oct 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A vivid, thrilling throwback to the soapy dramas of primetime television’s heyday. A scandalous, uninhibited romp from its very first scenes (which involve two characters joining the mile-high club in an airplane toilet), its story is full of betrayal, ambition, greed, and excess in all the best possible ways.
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Collider
Oct 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
These are characters who happily indulge urges with a devil-may-care attitude (though they're not static, and do grow), with the audience able to comfortably await the inevitable fallout. It makes for a fun, thrilling watch, and it's backed by strong and charismatic performers who add enough complexity to avoid any dramatic ruts.
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Empire
Oct 16, 2024
Radio Times
Oct 9, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Rivals has a keen eye for subtle class distinctions and the way they etch tiny fracture lines through a close-knit community. It’s just frustrating that only some of the characters on the show feel like three-dimensional people, while others (most notably Nafessa Williams’ American producer Cameron Cook) feel like paper-thin soap-opera archetypes.
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Air Date: October 18, 2024
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