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, ...

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 ...

The Oscar winner stars as Miss Havisham alongside Fionn Whitehead as Pip in a gritty version of the Charles Dickens classic from writer Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders'). By Angie Han Television Critic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: This review contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Great Expectations. There have been plenty of good, and even great, adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations.

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 ...

No one who’s read Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations could forget the first time that Pip, the young orphan and blacksmith’s apprentice, meets the wealthy town recluse Miss Havisham. She’s invited ...

There have been at least 18 prominent adaptations of Great Expectations since the invention of the moving image, said Nick Hilton in The Independent. “That’s Pip upon Pip, Magwitch upon Magwitch, Miss ...

Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate. By Damon Young Damon Young is a writer in residence ...

It’s ambitious to name your debut novel “Great Expectations.” Regardless of the immediate reference to Dickens’ classic coming-of-age novel, you’re establishing high stakes for yourself. That said, go ...