Neverland (Season 1)

Neverland (2011) is a British fantasy miniseries you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Nick Willing. It tells the origin story of Peter Pan and Jimmy Hook — not the fairy tale version, but the one that happened before the fairy tale.

Turn-of-the-century London: Peter is a street orphan and skilled pickpocket under the wing of Jimmy Hook, who sends the gang after a mysterious orb. It pulls them all sideways into another world. Neverland is not the playground of J.M. Barrie's imagination — it is older and more dangerous. Eighteenth-century pirates run by Elizabeth Bonnie, a Native tribe guarding a spirit tree, and a conflict between them that has never been resolved. Charlie Rowe plays Peter, Rhys Ifans is Hook. Bob Hoskins, Anna Friel and Keira Knightley round out a cast that takes the material seriously.

The series works best as a reframe: it asks what the story looks like when the children are not safe and the adults have their own agendas. Stream all episodes of Neverland (2011) online on iFILM.