David Copperfield
David Copperfield Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.1 |
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About
"A Dickens epic condensed into lavish, starry television"
This BBC miniseries adapts Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel, following an orphaned boy as he endures cruel relatives, boarding school hardship, and unlikely friendships on his way to adulthood in Victorian England. It's classic Dickens: sprawling, sentimental, filled with vivid eccentrics and sudden reversals of fortune. The pace is brisk for a two-part adaptation, compressing a doorstop novel into digestible chunks, and the pleasure comes from a starry British cast bringing broad, memorable characters to life rather than subtlety or slow-burn tension.
the stacked British cast making Dickens' sprawling cast of characters feel vivid and alive.
you find Victorian melodrama or rapid-fire plot compression exhausting rather than charming.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 8.1 | 107 | 90 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 8.1 | 96 | 92 min |