8.850 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe heartbroken Jane Eyre has left Thornfield. Exhausted, penniless and hopeless she lies down on the moors and is rescued by St John Rivers who, with his sisters, brings her back to life again.
Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
Acting
Ruth Wilson's micro-expressions do what pages of voiceover cannot.
Cinematography
Those candlelit close-ups should be illegal, frankly.
Costume
Jane's plain grey dresses somehow radiate more power than ballgowns.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens reportedly improvised several charged silences that made the final cut.
This adaptation notably restores Brontë's original ending where Jane narrates her own story, making her authorship literal.
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