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‘Great Expectations’ Has an Electric Olivia Colman, But Not Enough Else: TV Review

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Miss Havisham is one of the most indelible characters in the English-language literary canon.

Written by Charles Dickens to be outfitted, each day, in the wedding finery that serves as a decaying reminder that she was spurned at the altar, she’s a bundle of resentments tied together in white lace.

And, as played by Olivia Colman, she’s the action of the new “Great Expectations” limited series — so much so that much of the rest of the densely plotty story seems like biding time between her appearances.

Written by Steven Knight and co-produced by the BBC and FX, this “Great Expectations” is dimly lit and grimly violent, with the chaos and sudden bursts of enmity of Dickensian England brought to the fore.

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