How is this possible?! (Dickens: “I have often thought since, that she must have looked as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust”).

He then confronts Miss Havisham (Olivia Colman), telling her to git out of bed and git dressed and warning her that Compeyson is on the way and that “Compeyson was born a gentleman and gentlemen do what they want,” always erecting statues of themselves and building nutmeg empires but also possibly stealing and murdering people YOU SEE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IMPERIAL SIN AT THIS POINT.Īfter twenty (20!) years of reclusive spite, Miss Havisham just gets up, takes off her “demented candelabra,” changes into a charcoal non-wedding dress (she just had this hanging in her wardobes) and comes outside. In the FX finale, Magwitch (Johnny Harris), in a fetching but dirty three-piece suit, connects with Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin) directly by rocking up at her house and just … announcing that he’s her father, which goes over surprisingly well. Here, I need to warn… ***sucks in air through teeth*** spoilers lie beyond! Fuck! Knight took some liberties with this general skeleton. Estella marries and divorces sicko Drummle, and Pip learns a Very Good Lesson about ambition. Joe was hit with a crowbar by local skeeve Orlick and died quite a while ago) and they have cute little children that remind everyone of the pure child Pip used to be. She repents for her depraved ways before falling into a fireplace, womp. Miss Havisham has a moment of reckoning late in the story when Estella spurns Pip, and her dry old heart finally cracks. The two form a fond relationship, and you feel bad when you learn Magwitch will be arrested again. In the novel, aspiring gentleman Pip comes to know Magwitch, his convict benefactor, very well as an adult, and in fact helps conceal him from the authorities with the name “Provis,” neatly bifurcating the selves we all conceal.

Fx great expectations