Knight's role is described as having 'created and written for television ' a script 'based on" the Dickens novel (much as he did with his 2019 reworking of A Christmas Carol ). And that is what you get: a lurid Victorian gothic, so noir at times that you have trouble trying to follow what's happening, and to whom, especially at night. A handful of the novel's peripheral characters haven't made the move to TV, which is standard practice in an adaptation of a chunky tome. But some significant plot points have gone missing, too.

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