Great Expectations

Everything can change in a heartbeat.

Created by Brian Kirk

On BBC One, PBS

A Victorian literary adaptation tracing one man's moral education through social ambition, emotional manipulation, and the discovery that transformation cannot erase damage.

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.