"Great Expectations" Episode #1.5 (TV Episode 2023) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2023)

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4/10
A frustrating episode.
Sleepin_Dragon28 April 2023
An opium intoxicated Pip accompanies Jaggers to an underground party, where he his worst fears come true, and he is once again united with Compeyson, and in a brief encounter Compeyson explains that Pip has something that he wants.

What a thoroughly depressing and tedious penult episode this was, it is now so far off the beaten track that it's almost made up.

We're almost at point zero, zero being the clash of Compeyson and Magwitch, with Pip somehow caught up in the middle of their eternal feud.

Once again I will praise the acting and visuals, but I take issue with two things, firstly, the orgy scene, did I miss something in the translation, and secondly, why is it all so disjointed, it moves from one sequence to the next, without explanation, it just doesn't flow at all.

4/10.
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3/10
Episode 5
Prismark1016 May 2023
Steven Knight's version of Great Expectations gets more Peaky Blinders with each episode. This one starts with an orgy scene where Jaggers and a drugged up Pip plan to cheat Drummle.

Joe Gargery is worried about Pip. Only to find himself rebuffed and sneered by Pip. Living in London with wealth and privilege has changed him.

The main part of the fifth episode is revealing important parts of Dickens story. The relationship between Magwitch and Estella. The reason for the enmity between Magwitch and Compeyson.

It is all done with Jaggers recounting events to Pip. I would have thought some creativity could had been used to join the various dots.

Watching the penultimate episode and it just feels like an empty experience.
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