Chief mensch, and most appealing of the lot, is local lawyer Barry Fairbrother (Rory Kinnear), a heart-meltingly decent advocate for the town’s destitute and meth-addicted-and the deciding vote on the parish council, which as the story opens is deliberating whether to convert a community center and addiction clinic into a luxury spa. On the other side: the poor, and their good(ish) guy allies, cleaving to a handful of stereotypes-steely wives schooled in compromise clownish, well-intentioned husbands and a sprinkling of kindhearted minorities. On one side: the reactionary conservative bigots emblematized by delicatessen owner Howard Mollison and his wife, Shirley (Michael Gambon, here the anti-Dumbledore, and a deliciously vile Julia McKenzie). The town is Pagford, a would-be Arcadian farming village riven by deep class divisions.
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