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

[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.

[C19fan]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

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

[C19fan]

I did watch “Dickensian”. One of the highlights was the stunning Tuppeance Middleton as a young Miss Havisham.

[RummyChick]

My favorite story this week is Prince Harry thinking Putin would do an interview with him about Putin’s childhood trauma

[Nextrush]

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.

[Savage Beast]

Great Expectations is one of the most boring books I've ever read. Somebody tell me what I'm missing!

[uptowngirl]

A show I look forward to never watching.

[RummyChick]

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

[dforest]

Whatttt? Are you joking?

[Leaning Right]

> 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

[Leaning Right]

Take a look at my post #10.

[MinorityRepublican]

Netflix’s Bold Ultimatum for Harry and Meghan: No Work, No Pay

[windcliff]

ping

[tennmountainman]

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

[Jamestown1630]

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

[jdt1138]

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.

[PGR88]

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."

[DesertRhino]

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

[George J. Jetso]

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

[DesertRhino]

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