Rivals’ ten most memorable sex scenes ahead of season two’s return

The article celebrates ten of the most memorable sex scenes in the television adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s *Rivals*, ahead of the second season’s return. It treats the show’s romps as its defining spectacle, while noting that the series also satirises the privilege and politics of 1980s rural England.

The programme has featured 33 sex scenes so far, with six new episodes expected to add more. The examples discussed include Rupert Campbell-Black and Beattie Johnson in an aeroplane toilet, a politically charged encounter involving Gerald Middleton and Charles Fairburn, and scenes featuring Tony Baddingham and Maud O’Hara, Rupert and Cameron Cook, and Freddie Jones and Lizzie Vereker.