Synopsis
Oliver Twist (2007), Season 1 is the five-part BBC drama you can watch online on iFILM — a tight retelling of Dickens that folds the whole novel into five episodes.
A workhouse orphan is sold to an undertaker, runs from the cruelty and lands in London. The Artful Dodger pulls him into Fagin's nest of pickpockets, and from there the boy becomes a bargaining chip. Monks offers Fagin money to see the child dead. Bill Sikes settles things with his fists. The one person who tries to keep Oliver alive is Nancy, and she pays for it. This is a grimy, rain-soaked London with none of the storybook gloss.
Timothy Spall plays Fagin as a worn-down survivor rather than a cartoon villain, with Tom Hardy as a terrifying Sikes and Sophie Okonedo as Nancy. Pick this one if you want the dark, adult adaptation, not the musical. Stream Oliver Twist Season 1 online on iFILM.
5 episodes
S1·E1Part 1
Having endured a miserable and brutal childhood, young Oliver is sold to an undertaker, where his mistreatment forces him to escape to London. Once in the capital, he is welcomed into the seductive world of pick-pocketing by the criminal underworld and, before long, is in deep trouble with the law.
S1·E2Part 2
Fagin meets Monks and is promised handsome payment if he brings about Oliver's death. Fagin reasons, however, that someone may pay to have him returned safely.
S1·E3Part 3
Sikes escapes back to London with a badly wounded Oliver, and Nancy nurses him, determined to save his life.
S1·E4Part 4
Dodger discovers he is betrayed by Nancy, putting her in grave danger.
S1·E5Part 5
Sikes goes on the run with Oliver, but his journey is interrupted. Brownlow and the police search Fagin's den. Monks returns to London, but upon his arrival home, he finds Brownlow, Rose, and the police waiting for him.
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