Among all the modern adaptations of A Christmas Carol, FX’s three-part TV series is far from the best. Its radical departure from Dickens feels scattergun at best, and extremely problematic at worst.
"Do we really need another one?" Serkis remembers asking, especially since he grew up loving the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim as the heartless miser Ebenezer Scrooge. "But this is the most ...