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Okay, so who's been watching this? The format is fantastically well suited to the sprawling books narrative.
So far the cast has done a great job - Guppy is fantastic;y realised, and for the most they are as large and crude as you should expect from Dickens.
My one major problem, and it is quiet present in any Dickensian adaptation, is that Dickens draws fantastic child characters, always some of the most interesting in his books, however, stage school kids do not do them justice at all. Joe the sweeper is a great character in the book, but the actor that they have playing him in the show isn't very good at all. Is this the directors fault, or the actors?
So anyway, a thread to discuss this programme, whether it works in its format, if the characters are what you'd expect, Have you read the book, does it make you want to read the book? Why are BBC so good at this sort of thing? |
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