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TV review A triumph of sex, excess, and fabulous awfulness
The Guardian
|October 19, 2024
Welcome to Rutshire!" announces Lizzie (Katherine Parkinson), one of its calmer denizens and the only one with enough time between champagne-quaffing and nethers-slapping to ease a new family's passage into the bonkers, bonking Cotswolds set with conventional niceties. And what a welcome it's been!
This Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1980s bonkbuster starts as gloriously as it means to go on. Within the first 15 minutes we have the ne plus ultra of cads and bounders (also a cabinet minister and former super-duper show jumper) Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) banging a journalist ("the first not-quite-a-lady of Fleet Street") in Concorde's loos as it breaks the sound barrier and corks pop. We also have the star broadcast journalist Declan O'Hara (Aidan Turner) breaking a story about the deputy prime minister (Rufus Jones) having a lover, plus David Tennant's Lord Tony Baddingham - the clue is in the name - poaching him and a ruthless American producer Camer
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