Thankfully, “On Swift Horses� is something much more complex and compelling than the love-triangle tale you expect from its first several minutes.
After all, what were we to think upon meeting Daisy Edgar-Jones� Muriel, who, after a daytime lovemaking session with Will Poulter’s Lee, is continuing to drag her feet on giving him an answer to his repeated marriage proposals and who obviously is taken with Lee’s handsome brother, Jacob Elordi’s Julius, upon meeting him a few moments later?
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