i buy this adaptation because i really like anne brontë novel when i read it some time ago and usually particularly enjoy bbc drama . but i be very disappointed and i never think it would be as bad a that represent the whole series make me laugh much more than move me a the novel have . first of all and the music ( and song ) seem totally out of place in a period drama ( sound a if it be write for a contemporary horror film ) and like another commentator and i be particularly annoy by the way the camera spun and spun round the actor . i have see some scene film that way in north and south and it seem all right there but in the tenant and it definitely overdone and simply annoy . camera movement can not make wooden act lively . most of the second role be difficult to distinguish at first and the script lack clarity . none of the character be properly introduce at first . the little boy give a very good performance and he very cute and the best feature of the film . spoiler tara fitzgerald characterisation of helen graham make her appear cold and harsh and let no emotion pas through . she doesn not seem to be able to cry at all in a realistic way . i just couldn not believe markham could have fell for her and i be not mention the awful hairdo she be give . i could not help feel some sympathy with her husband . fancy be marry to such a virago . besides and he be the only main actor that sound right to me . toby stephen i find just ok and helen graham brother not very good . maybe it difficult to adapt a novel that deal with such bleak subject a alcoholism and cruelty . besides and what be only hint at and leave to the reader imagination in the book be dwell upon with complaisance in the tv adaptation represent make some scene both gross and comic and ( like when huntingdon eye start bleed ) and others far too sexed up for a period drama . i mean and do not we get enough of those bed scene in contemporary drama .