![]() ![]() Vegas is surely rather adventurous casting for a character who is 76 years old, described on first appearance as "short, cadaverous and withered."Īnd one hears that Mrs Pardiggle has been left out altogether. For a start, I've heard that there is no fog to be seen anywhere, which seems rather like filming Moby Dick without the sea. ![]() Not having seen any of it, I can't say, but it seems very unlikely that this dramatisation adds to the quality of the greatest novel in the English language. In the Telegraph, Catriona Davies said that "to those who have ploughed through all 1,088 pages of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House, it may seem like an unlikely book to be transformed into a populist drama". Kathryn Flett, in the Observer said it was "all the more thrilling for so dramatically improving upon Dickens's rambling potboiler". Some, indeed, have gone a surprising distance in heaping praise on the dramatisation. ![]() The rationale behind this is, evidently, that fatuous comment that if Dickens were alive today, he'd be writing for EastEnders a remark that can only be followed by the reflection that if Dickens did write EastEnders, it would be so very much improved in quality as to be unrecognisable.Įveryone who has seen any of the new Bleak House is terribly enthusiastic about it. ![]()
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