1.057 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestAs Pip and Jaggers’ plans come to a head, Miss Havisham finally comes face to face with her demons and Estella at last tries to break free after a family revelation.
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
Colman's Havisham: operatic decay in every cobweb gesture.
Production
The Satis House set deserves its own closing credits.
Creator
Steven Knight
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Taboo) treats Dickens like crime pulp—class as violence, inheritance as conspiracy.
Colman insisted on performing Havisham's wedding waltz alone in the rotting ballroom; the crew found her improvising to silence for twenty minutes.
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