The Casual Vacancy
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Summary:
The miniseries based on J.K. Rowling's non-Harry Potter novel is set in the English village of Pagford where parish council Chairman Howard Mollison (Michael Gambon) battles Barry Fairbrother (Rory Kinnear) over turning the charity Sweetlove House into a spa. When Barry dies suddenly, a heated election exposes secrets of many of the villagers.
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Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: April 30, 2015
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: April 29, 2015
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: April 29, 2015
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Uncle Barky
Apr 28, 2015
Apr 27, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The result is a warmer story, streaked with satire rather than marinated in it. Perhaps the greatest contribution comes from the performance of someone who barely appears: Rory Kinnear (best known as the Prime Minister in the pig episode of “Black Mirror”), whose Barry is a poignant, meaningful figure, a do-gooder whose loss is real for the town’s most vulnerable residents.
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Apr 27, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Like the book, the miniseries can come across less as a believable depiction of a community than as a collection of grotesques, despite the best efforts of its top-notched cast to give their roles three dimensions. The one major exception is Terri's daughter, Krystal, a fully fleshed-out character played to perfection by newcomer Abigail Lawrie. [1 May 2015, p.50]
Apr 27, 2015
Apr 29, 2015
Apr 28, 2015
Season 1 Review:
By losing the emotional core of the film essentially after the first act--the death of Kinnear's saintly Fairbrother--the film spends the next three-plus hours trying to fill the void. Fools rush in to fill it, but because most of them are treated with such contempt, or pity, none can or possibly could.
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Apr 28, 2015
Season 1 Review:
There are so many characters, frankly, that Casual Vacancy spends virtually all of the first hour just introducing them. The second expands upon that somewhat, before the third finally seeks to bring a measure of tragic resolution to it all, while leaving a number of threads a bit too casually dangling.
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Feb 11, 2020
I bought the book when it came out years ago but until today I've never read it.
It's still in my bookshelf completely untouched.
The series itself doesn't really motivate me so much to grab the book after all this time but at least it didn't seem like a waste of time.
It's still in my bookshelf completely untouched.
The series itself doesn't really motivate me so much to grab the book after all this time but at least it didn't seem like a waste of time.
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: April 29, 2015
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: April 30, 2015
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: April 29, 2015
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: April 29, 2015
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Season 1 Overview