Bleak House
Created by Andrew Davies
On BBC One
A stately Victorian legal drama that traces how inherited secrets and systemic corruption corrode the lives of those caught within them.
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.
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Like Bleak House
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Like Bleak House, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
