Televisual Excrescence

I gave it a chance for two episodes but I'm sorry, I can't be doing with the BBC's new adaptation of Great Expectations. Even the presence of the sainted Olivia Colman cannot rescue this piece of gratuitous vandalism. Yes, Dickens has a lot of darkness and we can perhaps afford, in these days of artistic licence, to spice it up a bit. But the profanity (they swear like me, that is to say, like a trooper) is unnecessary and feels like dramatic self-indulgence. The final straw was the insertion (Ooh aah Mrs) of a sado-masochistic sub-plot. On the whole, what's the word I'm looking for? Got it - crap.