
Set against the rolling hills and sprawling estates of the Cotswolds, Rivals proves that country life is anything but quiet. The Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s scandalous novels transports viewers to Rutshire, the fictional English countryside, where television executives, polo players, aristocrats, and social climbers spend as much time seducing each other as they do attending black-tie dinners.
While Rutshire may only exist thanks to Cooper’s wild imagination, much of the series was filmed across the Cotswolds, where the author lived for more...









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