I watched Bleak House about two years ago and recently started watching it again. It strikes me that, in addition to it being a top notch production, I have to add that the real star of this story is Dickens' drawings of his characters. To be more specific, there is a very large range of human behavior and character / personality traits and behaviors that are on display here: obsessiveness, generosity, selflessness, vengefulness, naivete, authoritarianism, depression, regretfulness, forlornness, manipulativeness, stalwartness, greed, avarice, loyalty, banality, insightfulness, etc. This story comes with real flesh and blood characters that seem to interact realistically with one another, and there seem to be no small moments either. Every exchange that the characters have with one another, every seemingly small scene is rife with an authentic understanding (or as close to it as one can get in a drama) of how people really are.