Monday, March 30, 2009

The right climate for Dickens

A new BBC take on Little Dorrit started on PBS in the U.S. tonight.

It’s nice. No surprise there, as it’s been adapted by Andrew Davies (newest Bleak House, Middlemarch, 1995 Pride and Prejudice).

Good time for it, too, with its threads of ruinous debt and government bureaucracy, all packaged up to satisfy a need to find amusement in despair.