YMMV / Dickensian

• Catharsis Factor: Arthur finally repenting, bringing Compeyson to a meeting with himself, Jaggers and Bill Sykes, who beats the living crap out of him until he signs a confession and delivers it to Amelia in person.
• Continuity Lockout: If you don't know your Dickens, the first few episodes in particular will be very confusing as tons of characters, and their stories, are introduced at once.
• Jerkass Woobie: Yes, Arthur's a spoiled entitled little weasel but the sheer amount of emotional and physical abuse Compeyson puts him through, driving him into debt and alcoholism, combined with the belief that his father hated him, and finally Amelia's total rejection of him after his Heel–Face Turn can cause him to be seen this way.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Though Compeyson had already done several bad things by this point, him dumping Jip the dog in the river officially made him the most hated character of the series.
  • Frances not telling Honoria that her daughter survived being born prematurely, especially after an episode that seemed dedicated to making her almost sympathetic. Not to mention her starving her niece for the first day of her life because she doesn't have any milk for her. She is much softer with Honoria after this however, and it is her father who tells Honoria in no uncertain terms that she must marry Sir Leicester or else.
• Nightmare Fuel: Near to the end of the last episode, the plot of A Christmas Carol seems to start... with a genuinely creepy moan of "Ebenezer" by an off-screen Marley, accompanied by the clanking and scraping of chains.
• Older Than They Think: This isn't the first contemporary Charles Dickens crossover work of fiction where Inspector Bucket investigates the death of one of the partners of Scrooge and Marley. The 2007 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine story "Humbug" (which is also collected in Naughty: Nine Tales of Christmas Crime), features Scrooge dying after it turns out that the events of A Christmas Carol were all just a dream after he was secretly drugged with opium, and Bucket is assigned to find out who is responsible.
• Special Effects Failure: The whole series was filmed inside a giant warehouse and it shows. None of the "outdoor" scenes actually look like they're in the open air, especially Miss Havisham's front garden which just looks like an indoor display garden.

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