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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson

Champagne-soaked sex and slow-burn longing – was this the swooniest year of TV ever?

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in Netflix’s Nobody Wants This.
Hot Rabbi love … Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in Netflix’s Nobody Wants This. Photograph: Hopper Stone/AP

‘I’m going to declare this an area of outstanding natural beauty,” a moustachioed Danny Dyer (wearing a terrible 80s wig) tells Katherine Parkinson while pouring champagne over her naked breasts in a field. He licks it off, eagerly performs cunnilingus and they romp in the sun.

Rivals was a series packed with sex, longing stares and naked tennis, but this was the unexpected moment that made the nation swoon the most.

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