Great Expectations

A classic tale reimagined.

Created by Steven Knight

On BBC One, Hulu

A period adaptation of Dickens' coming-of-age tragedy, centred on the collision between romantic aspiration and emotional damage, told across a concentrated six-episode arc.

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.