Alice (Season 1)

Alice (2009) is a fantasy miniseries you can watch online on iFILM — Nick Willing's loose, modern riff on Lewis Carroll. Caterina Scorsone takes the lead, with Kathy Bates, Tim Curry and Harry Dean Stanton filling out Wonderland.

Roughly 150 years after the original Alice toppled the throne, the magic kingdom has rotted into something else. A vast casino now runs the place, kidnapping people from our world and draining their emotions like chips off a table. When Alice Hamilton watches her boyfriend Jack hauled through a mirror, she goes after him — and lands on the far side of the looking glass, trusting a jittery stranger who calls himself White Rabbit.

Willing rebuilds the card-game world as a neon dystopian city where Kathy Bates' Queen of Hearts rules through addiction rather than the axe. Scorsone plays Alice as a fighter, all judo and stubbornness instead of pinafores. If you like your classics reimagined on the darker, stranger end, the two parts go down in a single evening. Stream every episode of Alice (2009) online on iFILM.