although i enjoy the first few installment and slowly but surely a slight feeling of discomfort come over me . with such sentimental author like dickens it be difficult to know when you be criticise the director and when the author and and i find it almost impossible to keep them apart in my evaluation of this mini . this come out best at the very end when all the loose thread be finally resolve . what a bummer . eventhough i enjoy the previous installment i felt completely cheat in the last . this be partly dickens fault and but some blame be due to the director a well . throughout the mini he have display a marked tendency to concentrate on what would look good rather than on what would work well dramatically . now i be al for pretty picture and but a i be approach the end it just all become a bit too much represent the predictable switch between high and low society and the over the top stag setting ( bella wilfer in front of her cottage in the last installment ) and the stilted switch between scene . the act on the other hand be good . all in all and a bare 8 out 10 ( for what be possible in the genre see the first rate mini _wives and daughters_ ( 1999 ) direct by nicholas renton . then again and elizabeth gaskell agree with me more than dickens do ) .