History Series / TheCasualVacancy

* RaceLift: Gaia and Kay are black. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in Kay's case given she was AmbiguouslyBrown to begin with.

''The Casual Vacancy'' is a BBC miniseries [[BritishBrevity of three episodes]] based on the [[Literature/TheCasualVacancy novel of the same name]] by [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]], starting on the 15th of February, 2015. Taking place in the sleepy little town of Pagford, it follows the turmoil of local politics and families after the death of Barry Fairbrother, a parish councillor, resulting in a grab for his seat which gains all the more imortance as the council is discussing getting rid of an addiction clinic that Barry was the chief defender of.

* CainAndAbel: Simon and Barry, though they're only half-brothers and Simon didn't kill Barry.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Robbie. And, in a small way, Krystal. Though she still dies, her death in the adaptation (accidental drowning while searching for a brother she feared had fallen into the water) will presumably keep her from being mistakenly remembered as just another worthless junkie, the way her death in the book (suicide by intentional OD) leaves her.]]

* DecidedByOneVote: Miles Mollison beats Colin Wall 198-197.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Robbie. And, in a small way, Krystal. Though she still dies, her death in the adaptation (accidental drowning while searching for a brother she feared had fallen into the water) will presumably keep her from being mistakenly remembered as just another worthless junkie, the way her death in the book (suicide by intentional OD) leaves her.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Krystal was essentially murdered in this adaptation, as opposed to her suicide in the book. The killers? Vikram, who should have tried to find Robbie's caregiver -- in this version Krystal was not having sex with Fats, and therefore was gone for a much shorter amount of time -- instead of taking him home and leaving his sister to assume the worst and go into the water looking for him. The other killer? Simon Price, whose thoughtless dumping of his stolen goods caught Krystal in the water and contributed to her drowning.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Robbie.]]

* HappilyMarried: Barry and Mary as seen in the first episode. [[spoiler: HarsherInHindsight if you've read the book.]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Howard, played by Michael Gambon, is far from being overweight as in the book, and Maureen looks more like a wax statue of Marilyn Monroe than anything.

* KirkSummation/ShutUpHannibal: Barry delivers an awesome one to Howard and the parish council about the cause of the council and Pagford and the Fields in general being a TrueCompanions sort-of community, and pointing out the hypocrisy behind wanting to keep the people of the Fields there.

* FoolishTwinResponsibleTwin: Well, more "jerkass twin and responsible NiceGuy twin", but Barry and Simon count.

* SiblingYingYang: Barry and Simon.

* CainAndAbel: Simon and Barry, though they're only half-brothers.

* HappilyMarried: Barry and Mary as seen in the first episode. [[spoilers: HarsherInHindsight if you've read the book.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The first episode expands on Barry's ties with the Fields and its people, especially with the Weedons. It also expands a line about Simon's mother also being a hardworking woman from the Fields, like Barry's was, into making them half-brothers, [[spoiler: to give Simon an extra reason to want to stand.]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Howard, played by Michael Gambon, is far from being overweight as in the book, and Maureen looks more like a way statue of Marilyn Monroe than anything.

* AdaptationExpansion: The first episode expands on Barry's ties with the Fields and its people, especially with the Weedons. [[spoiler: It also expands a line about Simon's mother also being a hardworking woman from the Fields, like Barry's was, into making them half-brothers, to give Simon an extra reason to want to stand.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Simon Price may speak with a calm and quiet tone most of the time, but don't let that fool you.
* KirkSummation/ShutUpHannibal: Barry delivers an awesome one to Howard and the parish council about the cause of the council and Pagford and the Fields in general being a TrueCompanions sort-of community.

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''The Casual Vacancy'' is a BBC miniseries [[BritishBrevity of three episodes]] based on the [[Literature/TheCasualVacancy novel of the same name]] by [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]], starting on the 15th of February, 2015. Taking place in the sleepy little town of Pagford, it follows the turmoil of local politics and families after the death of Barry Fairbrother, a parish councillor, resulting in a grab for his seat which gains all the more imortance as the council is discussing getting rid of an addiction clinic that Barry was the chief defender of.