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Coincidentally, Aidan Turner had previously filmed at Chavenage House (The Priory in Rivals)
Chronology
Follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Badingham as their long-standing rivalry comes to a head.. The same filming location was also used to portray Trenwith House in the 2015 BBC TV adaptation of Poldark..
It’s a pretty perfect contemporary adaptation of a book by Jilly Cooper
That’s almost a compliment, and that’s entirely due to the excellent cast & some occasional cracked lyrics. That being said, writing-wise, the dialogue gets noticeably more clunky around the episode 5 mark.
A good laugh and a nice break from bingeing on gritty crime dramas – but not a classic
I don’t know if it’s a change in writer or a writing team running out of steam alongside a pretty ambitious production, but it’s jarring. But like all of Cooper’s work in any form, it was always going to veer close to soapy tonality and the fact that it’s largely not really impressive – but it IS ridiculous.
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The final season of "What we do in the shadows" is one of the biggest TV and streaming premieres this month.
