Great Expectations (2023)

Matt Roush says...

 From FX comes an edgy six-part adaptation from Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight of the Charles Dickens classic, which charts the unsentimental education of orphaned Pip (Tom Sweet as a child, Fionn Whitehead as the young adult), who seeks to become a gentleman in the rigid class structure of Victorian England. His guide, more’s the pity, is the embittered and ghoulish Miss Havisham (the reliably riveting Olivia Colman), who has groomed her lovely adopted ward Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin) in all the wrong ways. Look for What We Do in the Shadows’ Matt Berry as the delightfully monikered Mr. Pumblechook, the go-between who introduces young Pip to the ogre in tattered wedding regalia.

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