TV series

Little Dorrit

1967 · 1 season

A slow, somber period drama that asks patience, rewarding viewers with quiet emotional weight and a sense of societal injustice.

Overview: Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, tense and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Class, family, isolation, identity
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
family
isolation
identity
justice
Places: big city
prison
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none