Every HBO Miniseries Ranked Worst To Best

39. The Casual Vacancy (2015)

Following the success of Harry Potter, J.K Rowling began branching out into more mature, adult novels, one of which was the political drama The Casual Vacancy. The show aired as a three-part miniseries in 2015...and sunk like a lead balloon.

Unfortunately, The Casual Vacancy, with its heavy-handed political themes and underdeveloped characters, commits the worst offence a show can: It's boring. There's never any investment, no hook and no reason to get excited. It's there, it drags, and then it mercifully ends, having said nothing of importance about the themes it brings up.