Wednesday, January 21, 2009

get your bronte on, yo

Until February 1st, you can watch PBS' new Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Wuthering Heights online! Episode 1 is here; the second and final episode premiers Sunday.

Sure, it's a depressing story with depraved and/or diabolical characters.  The setting is bleak and the ending is bleaker.  But -- and here's why I'm watching the movie though I can't stand the book -- it's so darn pretty.



Fancy costumes + fancy British elocution = I will watch whatever the heck you put before me.  

And online? With Burn Gorman (aka Bleak House's Guppy)?  Wild horses couldn't keep me away.


3 comments:

  1. Yay! You're writing again.
    Twilight turned my interest to Wuthering Heights. I just bought it, and then Odie ate it. Maybe it's a sign: the movie sounds like a great idea. :)

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  2. How funny -- what's the Twilight / Wuthering connection?

    I just netflixed an early version of Wuthering with Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and Jeremy Northam! Glory glory!

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  3. I am gonna watch it ASAP! Thanks for getting the word out abut it!

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