Great Expectations did very well in the ratings, bringing in around 6 million per night — about a quarter of the viewing audience.
And speaking of GE, Jeremy Irvine offers a few thoughts about the coming bigscreen version in which he stars. I like his take on the character, especially when he touches on the theme of domestic violence. We often concentrate on the adult Pip's flaws and forget that Pip was an abused child, much like David Copperfield. (Not that this justifies everything he does, but it does help explain much of it.) I think that because there's so much dark humor in the depiction of Pip's childhood and so much earnestness in that of David Copperfield, and also because Pip turned out so poorly and David grew up into a much nicer person, we don't always note the similarities in their upbringing. At least, not that I've seen. It would be an interesting topic to explore sometime . . .
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