The Artful Dodger (Seasons 1–2)

The Artful Dodger (2023) is an Australian drama series you can watch online on iFILM. It's 1850s colonial Australia, and Jack Dawkins — once London's slipperiest pickpocket from the pages of Dickens — has reinvented himself as a surgeon. The fingers that used to lift wallets now close wounds.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays Jack as a man who keeps tripping over his own reinvention. The colonial upper class doesn't quite trust him. The criminal world he left behind won't let him go. David Thewlis turns up as Fagin, a reminder that old debts don't expire just because you've crossed an ocean. And then there's Eliza (Maia Mitchell) — an impossible love that complicates everything.

The show earns its premise by taking the Dickens characters seriously and dropping them into a genuinely different world — complete with rough-and-tumble surgery scenes and colonial social politics. Eight episodes, produced for Disney+. Stream all episodes of The Artful Dodger (2023) online on iFILM.