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- BBC-1
- Oct 27, 2005
- BBC-1
- Oct 27, 2005
Summary Bleak House is a new adaptation of Dickens's great story. Three young orphans - Esther, Richard and Ada - are sent to live at Bleak House, where they receive a friendly welcome from their rich guardian John Jarndyce. But all is not as it seems at Bleak House, and nothing but bad luck follows those who stay there.
- BBC-1
- Oct 27, 2005
- BBC-1
- Oct 27, 2005
Summary Bleak House is a new adaptation of Dickens's great story. Three young orphans - Esther, Richard and Ada - are sent to live at Bleak House, where they receive a friendly welcome from their rich guardian John Jarndyce. But all is not as it seems at Bleak House, and nothing but bad luck follows those who stay there.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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The perfect marriage of television and literature.
While a quintessential Masterpiece Theatre production, Bleak House doesn't indulge in the languid pacing and preciousness that weigh down some other PBS period pieces.
Dark, textured, and lively--this is how Dickens is done. [20 Jan 2006, p.66]
This spectacular six-part adaptation of the lit classic feels more like a plush Jane Austen tale than Dickens.
As pleasurable as its tale is grim.
If there is any criticism to be made, it is that the opening half-hour plunges the unsuspecting viewer into an unfamiliar foreign world of soot and grime and foul deeds and motives. Once settled in, however, this is very addictive television, indeed.
This "Bleak House" is sublimely bleak, as well as richly textured, superbly acted and intermittently funny. Fans of the epic adaptations that have long been the bread and butter of "Masterpiece Theatre" won't want to miss it.
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