Script, Casting, Direction, Production and performances throughout makes this version of this Dickens classic, for me, the definitive version. The BBC at it's very best, just a glance a look the cast listing and you'll know you're about to experience a quality piece of entertainment.
From start to finish the pace and subtly are faultless, as for notable performances? Well IMO every actor holds there own throughout the three episodes. Please disregard the BBC's later incarnation of this wonderful Dickens masterpiece, there most recent version in 2023, with it's dire casting and a total absence of any kind of sense of soul, was a cynical attempt to milk, and reel in new audiences, it failed miserably. I'll repeat, this 2012 version is all you'll ever need to watch, for the time being that is.
