The acting and scenery in this series are very good. But I just don't understand why the screenwriters would make such major and unnecessary changed to Charles Dickens's plot. Why is Monks Brownlow's grandson? Why does Sykes save Oliver after his shooting, rather than leave him in the house bleeding as in the original? I can understand leaving out bits to fit the plot into a short time period, but to randomly change a classic in this way? I often watch films after finishing the book, just to see how others imagined the characters, This time the treatment upset me. It's an act of hubris to attempt to correct a classic.
Review of Oliver Twist
