TY - JOUR
AU - West, Nancy M
AB - Adaptation Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 427–430 https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad023 Advance Access publication 28 September 2023 FILM REVIEW Gentleman Jaggers: The Real Innovation in FX’s Great Expectations and Why Critics Didn't See It NANCY M. WEST* Great Expectations. Steven Knight, creator. FX Productions, BBC, and Hulu, 2023. Picture this: an engineer with a vague, traditionalist’s sense of Dickens sits at his desk while his wife (me) watches episode three of the new Great Expectations. ‘Get your fucking hands off me!’ a teenage boy yells as he pulls a knife on an older Black man. The engineer’s ears perk up. ‘You’re watching a Dickens adaptation?’ he asks. Cut to the next day, same setting, episode four. A woman lies on a bed blitzed out from smoking opium, her long white hair and rotting wedding dress in prominent focus. Lying next to her is a young Black woman, who takes the pipe from her hand and puts it to her own lips. ‘Is that Miss Havisham?’, the engineer asks. ‘Yes’. ‘And Estella?’ ‘Yes’. ‘They smoked opium?’ he asks incredulously. ‘They do now’. And so it goes with this six-part miniseries, which brazenly avows that it is no rev- erent, traditional affair. A noir-inflected re-imagining, 
TI - Gentleman Jaggers: The Real Innovation in FX’s Great Expectations and Why Critics Didn't See It
JF - Adaptation
DO - 10.1093/adaptation/apad023
DA - 2023-09-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/gentleman-jaggers-the-real-innovation-in-fx-s-great-expectations-and-FxeusXPlpy
SP - 427
EP - 430
VL - 16
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -