Great Expectations BBC One 9pm Sunday

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Yet another version begins tonight: https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/articles/2023/great-expectations-steven-knight

Looks dreadful.
I'm going to watch classic Oliver Twist with Alastair Simm from TalkingPicsTV

I don’t have high hopes for this one, from the reviews. I still the 1940’s film version is the best one (and there have been so many over the years). But we’ll see.

Lasted five minutes. Utter shite.

It’s really dragging.
Pip is supposed to be seven at the start of the book, whereas he’s clearly much older here. I thought it was significant that he was a very young child when he first encountered Magwitch, but whatever.
I might give up.

Very slow and yes Pip was much younger initially, younger than Estella

The cinematography is rather good.

House looks very sanitised and minimalistic not decaying iftms

Agree.

Watching now, Olivia Coleman just appeared as Miss Havisham. She irritates me as she’s always herself!

Much prefer the Gillian Anderson version, I don’t know why they felt the need to remake it so soon tbh. I don’t think this one is any more inventive.

God that was 😴

I couldn't get my head around the bright sunshine on Christmas day

Not sure the girl playing Estella is pretty enough? But maybe that adds something interesting to the story.

Olivia looks too young and not haggard enough

I thought that was excellent and looking forward to next Sunday,

Gave up quickly. Every scene was wrong as it came along. Pip much too old, his home environment too sanitised, his sister just wrong.

Give it time, love the cinematography. I just love the story so willing it to be good

Some of it quite good, other bits meh. Feel like we’ve only just had a BBC Great expectations. Do we need this?

What larks.

I have not read it and I enjoyed it, atmospheric and cinematography

We loved it

Yes I’ve not read it and didn’t watch whatever everyone else is referring to.

personally we all really enjoyed it here. I like Olivia Coleman too

I think part of the dynamic of the book is that Miss Havisham was abandoned not much older than Estella is at the start.

The house was too nice. I don’t think they made It clear how decent Joe is. They gave too much away, telling so much of Magwitch’s story and portraying Miss Haversham as psychotic from the start.

I thought this was brilliant, absolutely loved it and can't wait for next week!

I’m enjoying it! Now watching the bbc4 programme on the book with Tony Jordan. I also loved Dickensian!
pip is a young boy? Looks same age as Estella to me. Love the house , very eery.
looking forward to next week. And it’s clearly winter while filming. You can tell by the trees! you can get sunny Christmas Days.

Struggle with Great Expectations re makes. The 1940s version I saw as a teenager when I was off school unwell and was amazed by the story. I live where the prison boat Magwitch escaped from was meant to have been moored and have visited Restoration House on many occasions, however so far enjoyed this evenings adaptation...

I loved the Gillian Anderson version of miss havisham too.

I struggled with Pip - his accent was too posh, and he's not a great actor. His sister was pretty wooden too.