‘Rivals’ Season 2 Releases Fireworks for Guy Fawkes

I will admit I cackled like a hyena at the opening of Episode 8 of Rivals, even if the sauna place was full of Venturer bigwigs discussing their current mole problem and not actually having any of the sex the opening shots implied. (Also, as someone who grew up on Ferris Bueller, I love Yello.)

This week’s episode is basically about everyone waiting for the lids to blow off a few pots, as it were. As I noted in the mid-season premiere recap, there have actually been a variety of moles between Corinium and Venturer over the two seasons. However, in this case, it’s very clear the show wants us to focus on the most recent leak: Maud telling Tony about Lizzie’s forthcoming book and that Venturer was bidding on it. The Venturer team is still hoping that word got out by accident – Lizzie is married to Corinium’s leading moron, James, who could have noticed she was writing a book if he ever looked beyond the end of his own dick.

However, Lizzie’s been married to him for far too long to think that’s possible. Freddie hopefully suggests it could have been Lizzie’s agent when he flies her to Paris for lunch, but she shuts that down too. In a sign that the writers have clearly shopped their own work for adaptation and know what authors really want, she tells Freddie that making her an offer she can’t refuse to win the bid is easy: give her control of the script.

It’s a good thing playing hardball is exactly what gets Freddie... ahem.