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BLEAK HOUSE
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Charles Dickens' greatest novel yielded Masterpiece Theatre's greatest co-production in years. The adaptation captured the disparate tones of the sprawling legal tale — satire, romance, melodrama — and deftly handled its numerous stories. Even at eight hours, it flew by, lofted by Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) as an aristocrat nursing a secret heartache. And the adaptation managed to avoid the twin pitfalls of modern re-creations of classics: it was neither a stuffy costume drama nor a flashy for its own sake; instead, it used elements of both styles to serve Dickens' multifaceted story. Bleak, yes, but brilliantly so.
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