Great Expectations (TV Mini Series) Episode #1.6 (2023) User Reviews

As expected.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 5/10 · 1 May 2023]

Pip and Jaggers face ruin as their business venture is affected by a great storm. Compeyson is back in The Village, a final encounter with Magwitch seems inevitable.

It's the ending of the series I was expecting, visually stunning, gloriously acted, but ultimately as dull as dishwater, it's quite hard to fathom how on Earth such a rich script is turned into something so bland. I had a feeling that Knight would take liberties with the ending.

The eternal scene between Pip and Estella was worthy of a coffee commercial, will they or won't they, in the end I genuinely didn't care, I half expected Steven Knight's script to begin with a Pip and Estella wedding.

I had genuinely forgotten about that opening sequence in episode one, we learn the circumstances, how and why Pip ended up on that bridge.

The acting was a real triumph, Colman and Thomas shone through once again, but I'll be honest I really did enjoy Fionn Whitehead's Pop, he was very good in all fairness here.

Do yourself a favour, watch either the 2011 or even better the 1989 adaptation, both are superior to this somewhat dreary adaptation.

5/10.

Episode 6

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 29 June 2023]

The good news is Great Expectations finally comes to a turgid end.

Only Pip is acting even more morose. As Jaggers and Pip's grand plan to bring down the odious Drummle backfired. Their cargo ship sank before the issues of the slaves it had came to light. It is an expensive lesson for both of them.

Pip just goes back to Kent and become a blacksmith with Joe Gargery. Mot before Wemmick saved him from hanging himself.

Despite the overall gloominess of the series. Steven Knight is determined to tie up the various plotlines and go for a happy ending. Even it means departing from Dickens's text.

Miss Havisham is forced to take off her dress. She gets revenge on Compeyson, the man who jilted her. Her wedding dress and mansion does catch fire, but Miss Havisham lives to watch another sunset.

The series was a disappointment but the conclusion was more upbeat than expected.