Great Expectations (2023)

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 26, 2023
Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 18
  3. Negative: 3 out of 18

Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Mar 28, 2023
    30
    Most [of the actors] are unable to rise above the stylistic miasma of the production. ... The series becomes sillier as it becomes more serious, wending its way to a bizarrely cheerful conclusion — given the dour preceding hours — that shares only a fire with its literary antecedent. None of the character development feels earned. The narrative threads are clumsily engineered; their tying up feels pat.
  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Nandini Balial
    Mar 24, 2023
    25
    Those five actors [Olivia Colman, Matthew Needham, Matt Berry, Owen McDonnell, and Ashley Thomas] are carrying a production so badly written and so tritely directed (and photographed and scored) that viewers will struggle to stay awake.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Mar 23, 2023
    20
    Except for some fine work by Olivia Colman as the iconic Miss Havisham, the embittered puppeteer who wreaks vengeful havoc on our hero Pip, I was by turns irritated and bored.

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User Score
2.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 4 out of 5
  1. portobellojim
    Mar 29, 2023
    2
    Absurd retelling. Butchers the story with predictable modern 'updates'. This is a really poor adaptation by the BBC, who really should knowAbsurd retelling. Butchers the story with predictable modern 'updates'. This is a really poor adaptation by the BBC, who really should know better.

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