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Coincidentally, Aidan Turner used to shoot at Chavenage House (The Priory in Rivals)
Story
It follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as their long-standing rivalry comes to a head. The same filming location was also used to depict Trenwith House in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Poldark.
It looks like this adaptation (in one ep) will be just fine
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 name (because some of Jilly’s creations were damn good – Rupert Campbell Black says it all – and somewhat passed into the lexicon), but I almost immediately began, if I don’t remember the plot wholesale, to have a synaptic moment with the YSL opium heady smell from watching The Rivals. He giggles more goofily than laughs out loud, and he’s cuddly, not snarky.
dig in the nails at the top
He quickly built the world – the 80s, the greedy Thatcherite old boys and yuppies, the bored wives and the fearsome warrior women treated like meat no matter what they do, the concord, cigars and birdsong, the English class strata, the UK’s globalizing world. and the socio-political commentary, while not shoved in your face, is much clearer than when reading the books.
Okay, this is a bit of a panty, panty panto but FFS why not?!
Maybe it’s because I’m older and have met more people that Cooper’s criticism of British culture is more obvious, but I think the casting, the accents, the costumes – the way each character is drawn out' s habitus (quoting Bordeau) and presents it to the audience for consideration, admiration, belittling and/or concealment.
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