There’s a palpable darkness in Steven Knight’s adaptation of “Great Expectations.” It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot caking everything.

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 ...

Some of the new adaptions of one of Charles Dicken's most beloved novels, Great Expectations, have been controversial, leading to a debate about how far new adaptations should stray from the original.

A new adaptation of Dickens’s novel takes liberties with the plot, but has the same preoccupations with class and the allure of money and status. By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London Dickens purists ...

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, ...

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 ...