![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Truly, I sympathize.įeelings about decipherment and derivation aside, though, I found myself quickly wondering what the point of this new one was. The impulse to keep the audience from getting lost amid the countless narrative capillaries is just as powerful as the urge not to allow one’s version to get lost amid the sea of myriad versions. It’s also not easy because there have been so many adaptations of Dickens-so many adaptations of Great Expectations. My heart goes out to the writers of this new one, as it does for every Dickens adaptation, because it’s not an easy task transforming Dickens’s long, atmospheric novels, with their millions of characters and abundance of motivated subplots, to a medium that had not yet been invented when they were conceived. Charles Dickens’s 1861 Great Expectations is more than a classic novel it’s a tremendous achievement on its own, but as source material, it is as rich a wedge of atmosphere and characterization as they come. I’m not above saying that I had greater expectations for Great Expectations, the new six-part miniseries from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. ![]()
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