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Harry and Meghan's new Netflix Great Expectations project 'is nothing new': Charles Dickens expert says Sussexes' attempt to make a feminist TV hit will end up being a 'voyeuristic misery'
UK Daily Mail ^ | Martin Robinson

Posted on 06/27/2023 9:01:38 AM PDT by C19fan

Harry and Meghan's plan to make a Great Expectations prequel about Miss Havisham is not new and could be more 'voyeuristic misery' than feminist TV hit, a world-leading Dickens expert told MailOnline today.

Dr Emily Bell, an English professor and editor of The Dickensian, the journal of the prestigious Dickens Fellowship, told MailOnline that Miss Havisham's backstory was already explored in the 2015 series Dickensian and Ronald Frame's novel 'Havisham' in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dickens; feminism; meghan; victorian
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A primordial scream of NOOOOOOOOOO…. What could be worse than Netflix’s “reimagining” of Jane Austen’s “Persusion”, why the Duke and Duchess of Grift producing a new age woke take on Miss Havisham. A recent BBC adaptation of “Great Expectations” portrayed the character as an opium addict.
1 posted on 06/27/2023 9:01:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I’m guessing that Miss Havisham is a black transgender political activist in this prequel?


2 posted on 06/27/2023 9:03:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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I did watch “Dickensian”. One of the highlights was the stunning Tuppeance Middleton as a young Miss Havisham.


3 posted on 06/27/2023 9:03:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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My favorite story this week is Prince Harry thinking Putin would do an interview with him about Putin’s childhood trauma


4 posted on 06/27/2023 9:07:30 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: C19fan

What am I supposed to say the same British media that has trashed Putin and Russia inciting the world in the direction of nuclear war wants me to be angry with Harry and Meghan.

Regardless of their faults I refuse to take the bait.


5 posted on 06/27/2023 9:08:06 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: C19fan
Great Expectations is one of the most boring books I've ever read. Somebody tell me what I'm missing!
6 posted on 06/27/2023 9:10:09 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We have a choice: darkness and decadence or light and ascendancy. You deserve what you choose.)
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To: C19fan

A show I look forward to never watching.


7 posted on 06/27/2023 9:11:03 AM PDT by uptowngirl
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To: uptowngirl

HG Tudor says she is a Narcissist. She is too lazy to follow through with projects. In this episode he brings out the accents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30S6WTXdDW4


8 posted on 06/27/2023 9:13:24 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Whatttt? Are you joking?


9 posted on 06/27/2023 9:15:07 AM PDT by dforest
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> My favorite story this week is Prince Harry thinking Putin would do an interview with him about Putin’s childhood trauma <

Oh, but that was a good one. Some prankster should call Harry, and pretend to be Putin. The results would be comedy gold.

And for those who think you were just making that up:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/prince-harry-wanted-interview-vladimir-161658398.html


10 posted on 06/27/2023 9:15:42 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: dforest

Take a look at my post #10.


11 posted on 06/27/2023 9:16:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: C19fan
Netflix’s Bold Ultimatum for Harry and Meghan: No Work, No Pay
12 posted on 06/27/2023 9:16:59 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


13 posted on 06/27/2023 9:17:19 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: RummyChick

Yeah. That was funny…and delusional.
Smoking too much wacky weed will fry your brain.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 9:17:20 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: dforest

I think they wanted to interview Trump and the Pope, too.


15 posted on 06/27/2023 9:18:07 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: uptowngirl

I don’t understand why we are helping the Brits subject us to their will but it is a really bad idea to even give these people a headline.


16 posted on 06/27/2023 9:23:32 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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One of the highlights was the stunning Tuppeance Middleton as a young Miss Havisham.

She really is lovely. I first noticed her in her small, but important part in "The Imitation Game."

17 posted on 06/27/2023 9:24:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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Wow, that sounds fresh and original. A TV show with a bossy alpha female lead, snapping out snarky lines to beta males who scurry away to execute her orders.
That’s never been done. /s


18 posted on 06/27/2023 9:28:07 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: C19fan

The Duke and Duchess of Santa Barbara are at it again. Grifters gotta grift.


19 posted on 06/27/2023 9:38:13 AM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: Savage Beast

Agree… there are very few things more boring than moody 1800s Brit literature. Mark Twain agrees.


20 posted on 06/27/2023 9:43:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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