Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestDespite Pip's desire for an education and change in his status, he will become Joe's apprentice at the forgery.
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.
Acting
Rampling's Havisham — still in wedding dress, decades of rage crystallized.
Production
Satis House: cobwebs as character, decay as production design.
Writing
Marchant streamlines Dickens without losing the venom.
Creator
Tony Marchant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marchant wrote this for the BBC after his acclaimed 'Cracker' scripts, bringing psychological thriller instincts to Victorian literature. Rampling based her Havisham on women she'd met in French aristocratic circles who never recovered from wartime betrayals.
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