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May 9, 2015I quite enjoyed the book but the HBO adaptation missed the whole point of the book. It had a great cast but the characters could have had so much more depth. It seems it was a poor choice to condense this into a three hour series. A longer series would have allowed more of the original story to emerge.
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Every element that doesn’t quite work in The Casual Vacancy is offset by a legitimate reason to check it out, at least until the muddled ending.
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I appreciated the miniseries’ willingness to reach beyond moral satire. There are glimmers of big cosmic tragedy in this Vacancy, when the camera swings away from two characters arguing (or hooking up) in order to highlight some mythic element in the landscape.
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The performances are fine, the story lines appropriately interwoven. Everything is totally competent.... [But] the details are the story, and simplifying them and sanding them down leaves Vacancy with a real dull streak.