Posted by on October 21, 2024 10:00 pm
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Hubert Burton as closeted gay character Gerald Middleton in ‘Rivals’ | Image Credit: Hulu

If you miss Succession but thought the darkly funny HBO drama was a little too buttoned-up, then the unapologetically bold and brash—and gay!—Hulu series Rivals might be the show for you.

Based on author Jilly Cooper’s 1988 novel of the same name, the show is set in the 1980s in the fictional English county of Rutshire, where neighbors Rupert Campbell-Black (The Boys‘ Alex Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham (LGBTQ+ all David Tennant of Doctor Who fame) have a long-standing rivalry.

Very loosely inspired by the era of British television when government-run (and therefore conservative) network The BBC saw a number of independent networks rise to challenge its chokehold on audiences, the plot

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