Despite its name, /Bleak House/ is one of the few Dickens novels that's not about squalor and misery and poverty and misery and squalor. Its main enjoyment is in its satire and comedy. This adaptations, however, chooses to underline the "bleak" in /Bleak House/, and the result is bleak indeed. It isn't until episode six that we see an interior scene not shot at night.
The novel's great humorous characters have been replaced by faint impostors (Turveydrop) or evil psychopaths (Smallweed).
I had to stop watching when I could no longer take the way in which every single blessed shot is framed with some extreme closeup of an object or character, so as to create a blurred outline in a corner of the screen--a visual effect which loses its novelty sooner than the makers of this series might have anticipated.
The novel's great humorous characters have been replaced by faint impostors (Turveydrop) or evil psychopaths (Smallweed).
I had to stop watching when I could no longer take the way in which every single blessed shot is framed with some extreme closeup of an object or character, so as to create a blurred outline in a corner of the screen--a visual effect which loses its novelty sooner than the makers of this series might have anticipated.