Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" boasts one of the literature's most enigmatic and forbidding figures in Miss Havisham, the jilted bride who spends the rest of her days in her wedding gown as her once illustrious home decays around her. Miss Havisham is the epitome of gothic tragedy, representing lost love, bitterness and vindictiveness, a complicated brew brought to life by an array of formidable actors including Anne Bancroft, Gillian Anderson and Helena Bonham Carter.
In FX's version, adapted by Steven Knight, Olivia Colman's performance can't help but stand apart from the others — particularly given that her Miss Havisham, though familiar, is quite different, starting with her appearance.
