13/50
Coincidentally, Aidan Turner had previously filmed at Chavenage House (Prieria from Rivals)
Line of Events
Follow Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as their long-standing rivalry comes to a head. The same filming location was used to depict Trenwith House in the BBC TV adaptation of Poldark in 2015.
This adaptation (one ep) seems to be going well
So you all read the book eons ago (it was like a growing up ritual in a certain time and place) and TBH he remembered very little outside. from the odd name (because some of the ones Jilly created were so rigorous – Rupert Campbell Black says it all – and kind of went into the lexicon), but I started almost immediately, if I don’t remember the big plot, getting a synaptic picture with the intoxicating opium scent of YSL from watching The Rivals.
trying to hit the nail on the head
His giggles goofy instead of boisterous laughs and cheeky rather than rude. He quickly built a world – the 80s, old men and greedy Thatcher yuppies, bored women and fearful warriors, all treated like meat no matter what they do, concord, cigars and songbirds, layers of English classes, Britain in a globalizing world.
habitus (to quote Bordeau) and presentation to an audience for consideration, admiration, denigration and/or teasing
and the socio-political commentary, while not shoved in your face, is much clearer than when I read books. Maybe because I’m older and I’ve met more people, Cooper’s criticism of British culture is more obvious, but I think the cast, the accents, the costumes – the drawing of each character is also important.