[A] rich, clever, funny and courageous adaptation.

It ought to be too hammy to hang together, and it would probably have worked as a one-off film rather than the full three-hour mini-series, but I found myself watching, mainly due to the central performances.

This is one hell of a hellish slog toward a redemption that isn’t really earned, given what Ebenezer once did to Bob Cratchit’s desperate wife, a woman of color played by Vinette Robinson.

That’s all this is: piss, vinegar, and sputtering, with some good acting around to make it all just barely tolerable.

It plumbs the depths of darkness to the point that even the usually buoyant Cratchit Family is dragged down with Scrooge. But without a redemptive rise to counterbalance all that darkness, A Christmas Carol misses out on the meaning of the story and the greater meaning of the Christmas season.

Between the overuse of dark lens filters, the grinding sorrow hovering over everything, and the spirit-deflating, narrative-defeating addition of a sexual abuse subplot, this “Christmas Carol” is short on joy and very, very, very long on purgatorial slogging. ... The impressive cast can only offset the dourness to a point.

This isn’t a parody. It’s deadly serious. And deadly is a description that also fits the direction and writing. ... Drearily paced, clunkily written “Christmas Carol.” Everything seems to take forever as we move awkwardly and clumsily from scene to scene.

okay so no doubt i loved the show there is plenty of excitment and adventure the show moves fast and is good if you are looking for something for a family look elsewhere this isnt it however i enjoyed it very well done 2 thumbs up

This was a very dark, yet interesting take on a Christmas Carol. Enjoyed immensely.

Making the hero of the story truly awful was one of the worst decisions of this series.

Terrible take on a cherished Christmas classic! A perverted assault on my childhood memories of what Christmas is really about!

Abomination! A so called “remake” of a beloved ****’ tale of redemption and love that has been recast as a dark and filthy three odd hours of psycho-sexual indulgence with very little entertainment. From the first image of a boy urinating on a gravestone to reveal, “Jacob Marley” to the later humiliation of Bob Cratchit’s wife submitting to Scrooge’s quid pro quo offer that she prostitute herself for much needed money for her son’s life and death surgery, this movie is an unfortunate array of artisitic choices that fails with every scene! As is exclaimed so many times in this movie’s dialogue, I can only shout out, “Fu@k” Why the BBC and FX allowed their resources to be squandered in this worthless project, I cannot answer, but I can empathize with the humiliation the great cast of actors in this abomination must feel! In the end, by resorting to cheap, lurid and dark tricks of the writer we have been cheated **** Christmas story with an insult to our adoration of ****’ theme. It is not Marley who is turning over in his grave, but Charles ****!