Were you okay with the casting?

I know casting characters for a book adaptation is never going to be perfect. This miniseries did a good job with some of the characters, but others I felt were absolutely ridiculous.

Fats, Tessa Wall, Andrew, Samantha Mollison, and Krystal Weedon were excellently cast, I thought. The actors did a fine job and looked similar enough to how I imagined them while reading the book. Even Barry Fairbrother was adapted fairly well. It was even a bit easier to see his character's charm on screen.

My least favorite casting choices were that of Kay the social worker, Howard Mollison, and Sukhvinder (did I spell that right?). Don't even get me started on her though - one of my absolute favorite characters from the book, reduced to a few scenes and basically only one line.

I was unhappy with Kay's casting because she seemed to be one of the most realistic characters while reading the book. Particularly because of her strained, forced relationship with Gavin, I imagined her not unlike Mindy Kaling, from The Mindy Project and the American adaptation of The Office. I guess considering that they cut Gavin out completely they were free to mature her character, but that just made her feel very lacking. And the least they could have done was include the tension between her and her daughter Gaia.

I was pretty unhappy with the casting of Howard Mollison because I never exactly imagined the actor as obese.. (forgive me, I know who he is, I can't remember his name right now and I'm on my cell..) I mean, Howard's obesity was actually a bit of a crucial point to his character and the climax of the story. So when I first saw him, I thought they were going to downplay the scene with his rash and Doctor Jawanda telling him to lose weight and eventually break Doctor-patient confidentiality in the heat of the moment. But no, they went right on with it, despite the face that he wasn't at all obese..not in the best of shape, no, but certainly no Howard Mollison.