In the current Disney+ hit series Rivals, adapted from Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster, David Tennant plays the slippery TV boss Lord Tony Baddingham. Nominative determinism notwithstanding, the audience is unsure at first whether he’s a goody or a baddie. Until, that is, we see him practise putting in his executive lair.
In dramatic terms, short of kicking a puppy, there’s no more reliable signifier of utter rottenness than a man – and it is always a man – playing golf.
