![]() ![]() On the snootiest end of the spectrum sits Howard Mollison ( Michael Gambon) and his wife Shirley ( Julie McKenzie), both of whom would like nothing more than to shuttle the town’s undesirables out of view by any means necessary. ![]() Now an impromptu election must be held, and this puts the Pagford populace’s class divides into stark relief. His demise couldn’t come at a more inopportune time, as the council is deadlocked on a vote over whether to turn a community center for the poor and disadvantaged into a luxury spa and hotel. By the midpoint of the first episode, Barry is dead from a brain aneurysm, and he leaves behind a distraught wife ( Emily Bevan) and a vacant seat on the town council. This specter turns out to be no less than Death itself, offering Barry a premonition of what’s to come. He collapses on the floor one morning after seeing a scary skeleton in his bathroom mirror. Trouble is evident right off the bat as we meet the town’s eye-rollingly named saint Barry Fairbrother ( Rory Kinnear), a kind-hearted man who is, ahem, “fair” and “brotherly” to every person he meets. ![]() Rowling “Crying Eyes Out” at ‘The Casual Vacancy’ on BBC ![]()
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