Champagne-soaked sex and slow-burn longing – was this the swooniest year of TV ever?

Be it the understated romance of Japanese epic Shōgun, Danny Dyer’s tree sex in Rivals or Adam Brody risking his career for love – this was the year TV stole hearts

‘I’m going to declare this an area of outstanding natural beauty,” a moustachioed Danny Dyer (wearing a terrible 80s wig) tells Katherine Parkinson while pouring champagne over her naked breasts in a field. He licks it off, eagerly performs cunnilingus and they romp in the sun.

Rivals was a series packed with sex, longing stares and naked tennis, but this was the unexpected moment that made the nation swoon the most.

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