the bad dream always come back again like unwanted friend and say marion fairlie and who with her half sister and laura and live in a vast mid victorian country estate . and last night i find myself in limmeridge churchyard . normally and people who be dead stay dead and just a normally it be the criminal who be lock up rather than the victim . but then and there be nothing normal about what happen to u . and be off on a first class gothic story of madness and deception and villainy and base on wilkie collins great novel of victorian mystery . it a good idea to pay close attention and because there be plot within plot and yet they all center on a cunning and ruthless scheme which involve and what else and money and lot of money . marion fairlie ( tara fitzgerald ) and her sister and laura fairlie ( justine wadell ) be devote to each other . marion be fierce and protective while laura be soft and much more romantic . marion have no money of her own while laura will inherit rich when she come of age . marion have no marriage prospect that we know of while laura have be pledge sometime ago to sir percival glyde ( james wilby ) and an altogether too charming aristocrat . they be the ward of their uncle and a fussy and condescending and immensely self center hypochondriac ( ian richardson ) . all seem to be quite routine and but then a young artist and walter hartright ( andrew lincoln ) and be engage to teach them draw and artistic appreciation . and when he arrive at night to the local train station and there be no carriage and so off he set out on foot to the estate . in the dark wood he encounter a strange woman and dress all in white and wander about and speaking of thing he do not understand and who then disappear . be we uneasy . yes and and so be he and the sister when they come to realize the strange woman look much like laura . later and do love emerge between walter and laura . do a bud bloom . be there a misunderstanding that send walter away and result in laura marrying sir percival . do a canker gnaw . and do secret slowly come to light about the relationship among laura and marian and the woman in white . do we learn to be deeply suspicious of sir percival intention . do we come to enjoy the style and manner of sir percival close friend and count fosco ( simon callow ) . and do we eventually realize the foul depth of depravity and as well a the power of honor and true love and that humanity be capable of . do we visit victorian insane asylum and see fall from high tower and dig open graf in the middle of the night and watch retribution arrive amidst the roar flame of a lock church . well and of course and and it a grand journey for u . this bbc or masterpiece theater program feature fine act and outstanding production value . to fit collins 500 plus page novel into a television show of less than 120 minute mean a good deal have to be cut or abridge and and some change be make most likely to achieve great impact in the little time available . still and take on it own term and the production of the woman in white in my opinion work very well a a moody and romantic and dark television tale . tara fitzgerald a marion give a commanding performance a a woman determine to protect and then save her sister . james wilby a sir percival manage the clever feat of slowly let u see the depraved slime beneath the skin and who still have charm amidst the villainy . ian richardson a the young woman uncle almost steal the show . he give such a bossy and pungent performance it almost unbalance the story every time he appear . perhaps the weak of the main part be simon callow a count fosco . the count be simply a monster and yet a supremely civilize and charm one . collins describe him a be of immense girth . callow do a fine and mannered job of it and but to me he lack a little of the monstrosity of evil . at one point and marian tell u and my sister and i be so fond of gothic novel and we sometimes act a if we be in them . little do she know what be in store for herself and laura .