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     • The miniseries is ultimately a collection of vignettes that appears to have an overarching story, but ends before there's time to find out what it actually is. Still, The Casual Vacancy is helped along both by sumptuous filmmaking, and the strength of its actors.
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   Is the casual vacancy a good book?

   • 'The Casual Vacancy' may not be George Eliot, but it's J.K. Rowling; and that's pretty good." The Guardian wrote, "The Casual Vacancy is no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." The Economist opined, "This is a novel of insight and skill, deftly drawn and, at the end, cleverly pulled together.

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   Is the casual vacancy a satire?

   • Based on that pitch alone, The Casual Vacancy would seem to be light social satire, a skewering of small-town foibles and hypocrisies, but Rowling has always been more ambitious than that.

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   Does the casual vacancy have mature content?

   • This website may contain mature content. The official website for The Casual Vacancy on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.

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   What is the setting of the casual vacancy?

   • The Casual Vacancy is set in a small, picturesque English town called Pagford. It begins with the sudden death of Barry Fairbrother, a member of the Pagford Parish Council, which is locked in an internal struggle over the Fields, a low-income housing development on the border with Pagford’s larger and less lapidary neighbor Yarvil.

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   Is it possible to open the casual vacancy?

   • It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there.

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   Is the casual vacancy a different beast?

   • But The Casual Vacancy is a different beast entirely. It was not what I was expecting.

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   The Casual Vacancy received mixed reviews. Lev Grossman for Time wrote in a positive review, "It's a big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence and entirely bereft of bullshit."

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   The Casual Vacancy does better than either Broadchurch or Fortitude at wrangling a large ensemble into a coherent story. The structure was already there in Rowling’s book, but director Jonny...

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   Apr 29, 2015 · There are mysterious deaths and young adults under the spell of their hormones in idyllic, imaginary Pagford, but “The Casual Vacancy” is not a charming, the-vicar-did-it murder mystery or a...

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   Feb 16, 2015 · The Casual Vacancy began tonight on BBC One, with the first of three episodes of the 2012 novel adaptation. The drama, written by Sarah Phelps, explores the life in the village of Pagford, where the death of a parish Councillor triggers an inner war between their people.

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   The Casual Vacancy. 1 Seasons | 3 Episodes | TV-14. WATCH NOW. From the bestselling book by J.K. Rowling comes this three-part drama series about a town at war over the future of its community center. 1. Episode 1. A sudden death creates chaos in the town of Pagford over a pivotal empty seat on the Parish Council. 2. Episode 2.

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   Sep 27, 2012 · Based on that pitch alone, The Casual Vacancy would seem to be light social satire, a skewering of small-town foibles and hypocrisies, but Rowling has always been more ambitious than that. Her...