It's one of the great British novels, a tale that was originally released as a weekly serial and thus lends itself perfectly to TV. All the while, however, he's inwardly degenerating, and tortured by fragments of his life that he's left buried in the past. So it is that under the tutelage of Jaggers, he's able to clamber up the class ranks. He's intelligent, but more than that he’s malleable and fiercely ambitious. London is a place that delights in beating the innocent to their knees – but Pip is able to strike a Faustian bargain with one of its power brokers. When a chance encounter thrusts open the door to Pip's unlikely dream of entering high society, little does the young man know of the price he'll end up paying for the privilege. Olivia Colman brings the resentful Miss Havisham to the screen and Fionn Whitehead portrays the impressionable class fugitive Pip in this six-part, 2023 adaptation of Charles Dickens' timeless critique of the social order.ĭeveloped by Steven Knight, who, like the novel's protagonist, is the son of a blacksmith who had to shake off his roots in pursuit of a loftier existence, the limited series captures the Dickensian vision of 19th century London in all of its inherent ugliness, from the squalid, manure-strewn streets, to the cruel and opportunistic gentleman financiers projecting the illusion of respectability while pillaging all in their sights. Use ExpressVPN to stream BBC iPlayer while travelling overseas
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