The Ark – characters talkling in broad Mancunian accents – led by David Threlfall, children defying their parents and gallivanting the night away, and the whole thing filmed in a 2.35:1 cinemascope-style widescreen ratio to make it look like a biblical epic. Yes, The Ark had it all… all those things you never asked for. […]
The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 finally puts itself out of its misery, and a good job too as, quite frankly, over the course of these three weeks I could’ve pulled a better story out of my arse! Howard and Miles are fussing over the vandalism on the front of the former’s pie shop, adorned with […]
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The Casual Vacancy Episode 2 began with Barry’s funeral, and threats from beyond the grave that the dead man was going to rock the foundations of Pagford in some way. Half-brother Simon was also making his presence felt by passing flyers round, during the service, declaring that he was running for the casual vacancy in […]
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The Casual Vacancy 4 is an adaptation of a J.K. Rowling novel and is set in the fictional town of Pagford, in the suburban West Country. In a cast filled with famous faces, Parish council member Barry Fairbrother (Rory Kinnear) is preparing for his wedding anniversary to Mary (Emily Bevan), but he looks in the […]
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