Alex Hassell with Emily Atack in Rivals
DISNEY
If you read Jilly Cooper, the first thing you notice (beyond the shagging) is the scenery.
Rutshire — the fictional county where her books are set — is a voluptuous, fantasy playpen. It is filled with rutting animals, beautiful, emerald, cleavage-like hills, lovely houses and hot, horny men.
So I guess it was only a matter of time before some steamed-up, panting, myopic old hairy-fingered exec at an American streamer, in search of the next bit of gorgeous period nonsense, screamed: “I’ll have me some of that DOWNTON-ADJACENT BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSE PORN.”
Only, have they read Jilly?
Cooper, the author of Riders and Rivals (Disney+), is the filthiest person we have. Hers is a driving, Musk-level obsession: people (women) are constantly being hauled into