YMMV / Bleak Expectations

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Harry killing Judge Hardthrasher by crapping out one of his kidneys.
  • The Chinese Restaurant scene from the second season, as well as Mr. Benevolent's Fagin imitation.
  • St. Bastard's wouldn't be half as funny if it were any less awful.
  • Reverend Fecund calling his daughter ugly isn't funny, but the sheer gleefulness with which he expounds on just how ugly she supposedly is, on the other hand.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Well... in the fourth series, Gently Benevolent starts wearing leather pants, and by some strange coincidence this is also the series that calls most attention to how good-looking he is and where women seem to be falling for him all the time.
• Jerkass Woobie: Mixed with Iron Woobie, Sir Phillip Bin is a total arsehole. Selfish, rude, grumpy, and who openly embraces pretty much every awful aspect of Victorian England (except racism), but his life has been a living hell, and by the time we see him, his wife, sisters, and best friend have all been long dead, leaving his servant, daughter and utter twit of a son in-law as his only company.
• Tearjerker:
  • Poppy Bin's death. Made even worse when the Hardthrasher of the week claims she's probably in Hell, despite claiming just seconds ago she'd be going to Heaven, just to be a dick. Heck, even Sir Phillip Bin admits he's still broken up about it, decades later. Made even worse by the fact that everyone seems to have forgotten about her after this.
  • In the last episode, Sir Phillip having a vision of the afterlife, seeing Harry, Pippa and Ripely once more, calling him to join them.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Poppy Bin. She's briefly set up as the Smart Girl of the sibling trio, she certainly has more brains and agency than Pippa, and in the novelization she seems all set to follow in Aunt Lily's footsteps... but she's tragically killed off in the middle of the first season. Furthermore, while most of the major characters who get "killed off" end up Not Quite Dead, get revived or resurrected as undead, or at least show up as ghosts or in the afterlife a few times after their deaths, Poppy never does.
  • Sweetly Benevolent née Delightful is killed off-screen at the beginning of series four. She would've been a fun new villain in counterpoint to the (at that time) reluctantly evil Gently Benevolent, or as a Dark Mistress when Benevolent was inevitably re-eviled. Instead, the role is given to Pippa Bin.