Any new take on the Dickens needs a fresh angle. For better or worse, Knight certainly has that
So what could yet another interpretation of Dickens’ dissection of class hierarchy possibly have to offer? Well, right off the bat: production values. Thislooks utterly sensational. Those murky marshland scenes were beautifully realised – eerie, atmospheric and slick with frost-bitten mud that you could almost feel underneath your fingernails.
Too-bright-for-his-own-good orphan Pip was loathing his life working at the blacksmith forge run by his sister and her husband when two crucial events occurred. Firstly, he encountered and helped escaped convict Magwitch and secondly, he was enlisted to be a “companion” to Estella , the young ward of local spinster Miss Havisham. Both events set him on a path of social climbing, mysterious benefactors and shifting fortunes and fates.
In fact, this first episode was a relatively slow burn, building to the reveal of Colman as Miss Havisham. Shrouded and sneering in her wedding veil and plucking at the jewellery laden around her neck like chains, Colman leaned into the reckless bitterness of the character, dancing her two young marionettes towards one another with a real sense of malice and festering venom.
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