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‘Great Expectations’ review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale

Por: Los Angeles Times Entertainment March 25, 2023

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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, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation as a remodeling. Steven Knight, who created the dark period crime drama Peaky Blinders, has taken the novel down to the studs and erected something quite different in... + full article



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