What Is Rivals, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It? If you haven't yet discovered the bonkbusting brilliance of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, where have you been hiding? (Hopefully at Kingsley House, which we'd thoroughly approve of.) Rivals on Disney+ is the adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's iconic 1988 novel — part of her beloved Rutshire Chronicles. It has become the most deliciously scandalous thing on television since, well, the first series. Set in the rolling English countr