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The Artful Dodger - season 2
The Artful Dodger - season 2
2026 |
I don't know why more isn't being made of this show
(edit: I mean why it's not better known that it is, not that they aren't making more. Maybe they are, maybe they're not.)

This picks up from the end of season one of the show, with Dr Jack Dawkins (aka The Artful Dodger of the title) about to be hanged for a crime he didn't commit at the end of season one.

Spoiler alert: he isn't.

The main love-across-the-social-divide story of Jack and Lady Belle continues throughout this season, although more time here also seems to be given to who were, effectively, side characters in the first season: in particular, to Lady Belle's sister Fanny (who has perhaps the best arc of the season).

Alongside that, we have the continuing effort of Fagin to finagle his way to wealth and the exploration of the surgery of the time, with Dr Sneed coming more into his own and whilst a new detective in Port Victory is on the hunt for a serial killer who he believes to be Dr Dawkins ...