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Coincidentally, Aidan Turner had previously filmed at Chavenage House (Priory in Rivals)
Narrative
It follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as they have a long-standing rivalry that comes to a head. The same filming location was also used to depict Trenwith House in the 2015 BBC television adaptation of Poldark.
This adaptation (one ep in) seems to nail it
So people 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 strange name (because some Jilly created were very demanding – Rupert Campbell Black speaks for everything – and they got into the lexicon a bit), but almost immediately I began, if I do not remember the whole story, to get a synaptic connection with the intoxicating scent of YSL Opium from watching The Rivals.
bury the nails above
His goofy giggles instead of laugh-out-loud, and snarky, not lecherous. She quickly built a world – the 1980s, greedy Thatcherite old boys and yuppies, bored wives and fearsome warriors, all treated like meat no matter what they do, connivance, cigars and birdsong, the strata of the English class, the UK in a globalizing world tryna.
Okay, it’s a bit panty, panty, but FFS why not?!
and the socio-political commentary, while not shoved in your face, is much clearer than when reading the books. Maybe it’s because I’m older and have met more people that Cooper’s critique of British culture is more obvious, but I think it’s also the casting, the accents, the costumes – the portrayal of each character' s habitus (to quote Bordeau) and present it to an audience for consideration, admiration, denigration and/or outrage.
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