![]() ![]() In town of Pagford–the kind of bucolic hamlet whose green fields are biologically engineered to hide hypocrisy and decay–the local parish council is riven with controversy over a proposal to convert Sweetlove, a community center for the poor, into a swanky spa. What makes it to screen here is a grim-minded, class-conscious story of greed and self-interest amid a real-estate gold rush. Readers of the original (disclosure: I’m not one of them) should expect to find vacancies themselves. But HBO makes plain that this acidic story of English small-town politics is not exactly like the novel, either in order to cut down Rowling’s 500 pages into three hours of TV, the network says, writer Sarah Phelps “was given free rein to reshape the story,” whittling down some storylines, expanding others. Rowling novel, has little to do with the world of Harry Potter. It’s quickly obvious that The Casual Vacancy (April 29 and 30), despite being based on a J.K. ![]()
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