It’s fair to say the sight of a naked Mr Pumblechook being whipped on the bottom by housewife-turned-dominatrix Mrs Joe Gargery had some viewers of the new BBC adaptation of Great Expectations reaching for the smelling salts.
The Oscar winner is so good that the rest of this adaptation from the Peaky Blinders creator feels like filler. But do we really need yet another take on Dickens’ novel?