Steven Knight's adaptation of GreatExpectations rebuilds the classic Charles Dickens novel as something both exceptionally new and distinctly familiar. Our review:
Over 160 years after Charles Dickens penned, what is now hailed as his greatest work, Great Expectations, has found a new life in Steven Knight’s smartly crafted limited series by the same name. Adaptations are no easy feat to pull off, especially not when there has been one nearly every decade for over a hundred years. After all, comparison is the thief of joy, and audiences will either find themselves comparing it to the novel or an adaptation that preceded it.
Pip’s life is entwined with a colorful array of personalities who are similarly entangled in the brambles of Miss Havisham’s cunning schemes. Jaggers is a powerful lawyer who acts as Pip's guide through the upper echelons of society, building on the lessons that Pip learned as a bright-eyed boy. Beneath the surface, Jaggers has his own secrets — ones that link him to the criminal underbelly that always lurks just beneath the surface of high society.
This adaptation of Great Expectations has been updated for a modern audience without truly sacrificing the historical context or the literary allusions that Dickens often employed. The largest area of improvement lies within the way that this series frames its female characters: they are not just pawns or angels of the hearth.
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