The Oscar winner stars as Miss Havisham alongside Fionn Whitehead as Pip in a gritty version of the Charles Dickens classic from writer Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders').
) ties one end of a rope to a bridge, tightens the other around his neck, and leaps.
What happens next won’t be revealed until much later in the six-hour miniseries, but what’s clear right away is the message being sent: This isn’tthat’s willing to get dirty, to push the envelope, to take ample liberties with the source material beloved by millions. There’s more sex, more violence, more drugs. But with too little in the way of humanity, insight or entertainment to offer alongside them, what could have been a daring spin on a classic is transformed instead into a dreary slog.
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