Radio Times Choice.
"My walls contain a ferocity… dread in every crack," says the "voice" of Emily Brontë's novel - the foreboding house itself. This is a gripping, atmospheric and utterly faithful 15- part dramatisation of the book. Not having read it for 26 years, I'd started to believe in the 1939 film version, but director Peter Leslie Wild encourages his Cathy and Heathcliff to reveal how utterly vengeful, selfish and damaged they are, as well as passionate, loving and beautiful. Darkness pervades the Landscape and the house, and some of the scenes are genuinely Frightening - a drunken Hindley holding his baby son over the Banisters being a particularly terrible one in this opening Week. But, above all, this is a love Story of two souls that seem to Have melded into one or, or as Cathy says, "My love for Heathcliff resembles the Eternal rocks beneath… I am Heathcliff." Unmissable.
Jane Anderson in the Radio Times.
