Rivals is back. The second season of the Rutshire romp promises even more outrageousness, bonking and eighties excess – if the trailer tells us anything, tensions are hotter than ever.
Adapted from the late Dame Jilly Cooper’s cult Rutshire Chronicles, the series is a biting satire of Britains affluent rural set. The first season had us hooked on its hedonism, vengeful rivalries and forbidden affairs – and season two is set to be just as enjoyable. The Independent’s chief TV critic Nick Hilton described it as “well-written, well-acted and enormously fun”, while The Guardian awarded it five-stars and wrote, “if I could give this exquisite bonkbuster 10,000 stars, I would.”
