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Wuthering Heights

★ 7.5 11K votes 2009–2009 1 seasons · 2 episodes Ended ITV1
Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 9/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 8/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 7/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Tom HardyCharlotte RileyAndrew LincolnSarah LancashireBurn GormanRosalind Halstead
Starring
Tom HardyCharlotte RileyAndrew LincolnSarah LancashireBurn GormanRosalind Halstead
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"Obsessive love curdling into lifelong cruelty"

This two-part adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel follows Heathcliff, a foundling raised alongside Catherine Earnshaw on a bleak Yorkshire farm, whose intense childhood bond curdles into a lifetime of obsession, cruelty, and revenge once class and marriage pull them apart. It's moody, wind-swept, and unapologetically melodramatic, leaning hard into the source material's gothic bleakness rather than softening it. The pacing is brisk for a story this dense, compressing generations of grudges into a tight runtime. What carries it is the raw, feral chemistry between the leads and the sense of doom hanging over every scene.

Watch it for

the ferocious, doomed chemistry between Heathcliff and Catherine that makes the obsession feel dangerous.

Maybe skip if

you want a gentle romance rather than a story steeped in cruelty and emotional wreckage.

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All Seasons

Miniseries2009
7.530922h 17m
Based on the classic novel by Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights is a story of love, obsession, hate and revenge. The protagonists, Cathy and Heathcliff, form a love that is dark and destructive and affects the lives of everyone around them. Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Part 17.5
16469 min
2Part 27.4
14568 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Tom Hardy Heathcliff
Charlotte Riley Cathy
Andrew Lincoln Edgar
Sarah Lancashire Nelly
Burn Gorman Hindley
Rosalind Halstead Isabella
Rebecca Night Catherine
Tom Payne Linton
Andrew Hawley Hareton
Kevin McNally Mr. Earnshaw

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