This new production had a more modern and natural feel than any other version. Partly it might have been the graphic sex which the Brits seem to think is necessary in every classic adaptation these days, but also the modern feeling came from the up-to-date naturalistic acting, which was a vast improvement over every other version I've seen (with the possible exception of Ralph Fiennes' performance in the 1980s version). Of course you can't really fault the classic movie version when that was the acting style at the time.
Cathy in the new version did let us down with some dialogue as Victoria Winters says, yet overall I think she was by far the best Cathy ever. The character wasn't written as spiteful as she can be in the book, although we did get a sense of that in some scenes. But all of the performances in this version were of living, breathing people - something no other version has achieved, IMO.
I didn't especially care for the edgy percussive music, but yet the score did create an unsettling mood that worked. I remember the score from the Fiennes-Binoche version as fantastic, though.
The actor playing Heathcliff I think tapped all the nuances of the character, even more so than Fiennes, which is really saying something. According to some You-Tube videos he's apparently a heartthrob though he hardly looked it in this version. In my view his performance was Emmy-worthy.
I did think this was the darkest and most disturbing version of WH.
I don't really remember how DS handled its WH-inspired storyline, though it seemed to be a pretty superficial rendition as far as I recall. It was probably Lara Parker's weakest performance - or her least interesting, anyway.
I'd still like to see a version of WH that had snow when there was supposed to be snow. Otherwise it's kind of like the snowless Collinsport winters.