A typically dark and gloomy rendition from the Dark Knight, attenuated over six hours.
Quite liked the innovation that Pip is a good scholar, and thus already wants to make something of himself (I don't think that's in the original). Knight seems to have dispensed with all Dickens' humour, thus it's not as enjoyable as it might be.
In episode 2 Knight goes bonkers. Pip's sister and Mr Pumblechook are into S&M, Miss Havisham gets Pip laid, and she and her step daughter indulge in opium. I can see where he's going... I just don't like where he's going. So we stopped there.
With Johnny Harris, Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Matt Berry, Bashy (Jaggers) - quite a bizarre cast, overall.
The 'authentic' lighting makes it often hard to see anything.
I was amused to see - at the time of writing - that the IMDB rating is 4.7.
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| I like the overgrown house - production design Sonja Klaus |
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