On BBC One, it’s airing over three nights, and I’m betting the lack of incident in the first hour will lead to ample tune-out. At least FX is airing A Christmas Carol all at once.
At its very best, it’s an attempted in-depth character study of Scrooge, one that meshes very poorly with the inspiring structure of the story, while at its worst it’s an ill-paced, ill-focused version of A Christmas Carol that doesn’t even get up to the arrival of Jacob Marley until over an hour into its three-hour running time. The result is that FX has made a Christmas Carol that very much isn’t for children - seriously, the wee ones will be either bored or scandalized - and probably isn’t really for adults either.
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