The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Great Expectations’ Review: Olivia Colman in an FX/Hulu Dickens Adaptation That Strains for Edginess
‘Great Expectations’ Review: Olivia Colman in an FX/Hulu Dickens Adaptation That Strains for Edginess
Los Angeles Times: ‘Great Expectations’ review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale
FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, ...
The new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel Great Expectations is, by our count, the 17th screen adaptation, and the first one for TV since 2012. Some of the adaptations have taken the story in ...
Digital Spy: Peaky Blinders boss's Great Expectations adaptation has the recipe for success but fails to deliver
Great Expectations has all the ingredients for a delicious retelling of a Dickens classic but ends up bland on the palate. This was not the outcome we had predicted. In fact our… expectations… were ...
Peaky Blinders boss's Great Expectations adaptation has the recipe for success but fails to deliver
You won’t have the best of times, or the worst of times, watching the new, six-part “Great Expectations,” which belches out the problems of literary adaptation with the dyspeptic regularity of a ...
CNN: ‘Great Expectations’ serves up another grim revision of a Charles Dickens classic
After a bleak reimagining of “A Christmas Carol” in 2019, Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) is back to give another Charles Dickens tale, “Great Expectations,” similar treatment, with equally grim ...
‘Great Expectations’ serves up another grim revision of a Charles Dickens classic