SPOILERS Rivals Season 2 🥳

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On Disney in May 15th 2026

Who's excited?

I can't wait the trailer looks so good.

My granny used to like Bournvita - like mixing Bournville chocolate with Horlicks.... I wasn't a fan.

I could tell something bad was going to happen once Tony rang Maud to give the 10 minute notice warning. Sad it went in this direction though.

I adore that Lizzie had these mugs - I grew up with this teaset! What a fabulous joyous job it must be gathering such classic 80s items for props.

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@MrsJamin I clocked the mugs too! I had two separate, unrelated aunts that both had that set. Very nostalgic.

Loved that episode. Gutted to have to wait but I DO HOPE they don’t torture us the same way with season 3. I’ll suck it up for this, and watch the next six in October or whatever but JFC don’t mess with it again. The excuse is fucking football! No one is going to forget to watch Rivals for football!

I have a feeling you can still get Bournvita - I’ll Google.

I also thought Cameron was good at the silent acting. Poor Cameron. Trying to hang on to RCB is like trying to hold water in your cupped hands.

Declan and Maud had my childhood TV! Phillips in a brown case with eight buttons top right.

Just caught up - amazing episode, but quite a deviation from the books.

I thought Caitlin and Archie were very sweet. Monica & Lizzie heartbreaking, and loved the storm. I was at boarding school when it happened and remember going out to smoke fags in the holes left by the fallen trees the next day. I still have a contact sheet of the photos I took that day - far less raunchy than Archie's!

Marillon for Freddie & Lizzie was perfect.

I’m really not liking this season!

I had the bowls to go with those mugs and you can get Bournevita. I have some here.

Absolutely this!
My God poor MonMon I was not expecting that. They will have to go a bit off book now surely.
Loved all of that, superb acting all round.
So well done and so Jilly.

I think every woman could relate to Cameron in this ep - having a gut feeling something is going on but no real proof. And then later being proved right.

I thought Archie was gay?

TV Archie goes both ways- think he slept woth both Makepiece siblings last series!

Book Archie washes his hair with soap so it won't look shiny, so I was quite glad it wasn't shiny today! But Caitlin is not at all like my mental image of her.

Ran in from work tonight and pressed play before I even had my coat off.

Now trying to process this last episode but won't say anything as people might still have to watch. Except absolutely sublime acting from each and every member of the cast 💐

P.S still fuming 😤 we have to wait until Autumn for the other episodes 😤

Really? I think it’s just fab. It has a Dallas/Dynasty feel to it all.

I feel this season is a little slow but that may be because it’s a weekly slow release. I don’t like that we’ll have to wait months for the next part.

Haven’t watched it yet - waiting til after I’ve dropped off teenagers so I can watch without interruption!

Read somewhere (totally unsubstantiated) that the next tranche of episodes will come out late October and run til early December. 😬 But that would mean watching the hunt ball (if they keep in) at the right time of the year which I quite like.

It’s been such a splash of summer on our screens so far.

I was not prepared for that.
Glorious performances all round.
They are all absolute masters of the unsaid.

So Declan didn’t sleep with Cameron.

I knew Monica was going to die when Tony said “it’s too dangerous” & the fact that she was finally breaking free. How sad, a much darker episode but great acting.

Am I the only one who finds Taggie a bit annoying? We get it, she’s perfect with kids, a great cook, loves animals etc. She needs to do something to spice up her character a bit, she seems so weak, dull and boring compared to Cameron and other female characters (Lizzie, Monica, even Caitlin).

And even though they’ve aged her up, she and Rupert seem so wrong that together. The RCB actor is older than Aidan Turner, who plays her dad Declan. I know there’s supposed to be an age gap but I’m not feeling any chemistry between them at all.

Yes, interesting they’ve changed it from the book. Maybe they thought it would be too weird for them to sleep together in the show before she ends up with Patrick in the end.

I can’t edit my post, didn’t realise spoilers aren’t allowed.

@anxietyispartofme Ive not read the books but in the programme Declan is so devoted to her so to me it fit that he wouldn’t & that he would feel guilty for even entertaining the idea. Plus it makes the whole Maud & Tony thing even more outrageous.