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It's hard to know where to aim the praise first.
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Dark, textured, and lively--this is how Dickens is done. [20 Jan 2006, p.66]
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Fabulous in every respect.
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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.
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Perhaps the most glorious Masterpiece Theater of all time.
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The perfect marriage of television and literature.
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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.
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Splendid television.
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As pleasurable as its tale is grim.
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The only bleak aspect to this miniseries is that it doesn't last forever.
