Hulu and Disney+’s hit Charles Dickens-inspired historic crime drama The Clever Dodger has returned for season 2 with a stellar debut Rotten Tomatoes critics’ rating.
It has been some time since Oliver Twist‘s basic characters have been first reimagined for the small display, as The Clever Dodger season 1 was initially launched in November 2023. Although the present’s first outing was well-received by critics and followers alike, it took a 12 months for The Clever Dodger to obtain an official renewal, and effectively over one other 12 months for viewers to return to the Australian penal colony of Port Royal.
Fortunately, although, the present’s debut Tomatometer rating means that the second season is effectively well worth the wait. The Clever Dodger season 2 premiered in full on Hulu and Disney+ worldwide on February 10. On the time of writing, The Clever Dodger season 2 has a uncommon Rotten Tomatoes critics’ rating of 100% primarily based on 5 opinions, even larger than season 1’s Licensed Contemporary — and in addition undoubtedly spectacular — Tomatometer rating of 92%.
After all, The Clever Dodger season 2’s RT rating remains to be topic to alter, as extra opinions may alter the result. Nonetheless, The Clever Dodger‘s reviewers (to this point) agree that the present’s second season combines journey, romance, suspense, drama, and comedy with aplomb. Collider calls it one in all “the last decade’s greatest historic collection,” whereas CBR hails it as “effortlessly unpredictable” and “by no means lower than thought-provoking.”
The Clever Dodger season 2 picks up six months after season 1, as Dr. Jack Dawkins, aka Dodger (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), heads for the noose after being wrongfully accused of killing Port Royal’s former police captain. After all, his not-so-trustworthy surrogate father, Fagin (David Thewlis), is there to assist him escape, just for Jack to find that Fagin’s been driving a wedge between him and the governor’s daughter, Woman Belle (Maia Mitchell).
Although Jack manages to strike a deal to maintain him away from the noose and dealing within the hospital, his love for Belle will show to be harmful, particularly now that there is a new “sheriff” on the town. Luke Bracey has joined The Clever Dodger‘s solid as Inspector Henry Boxer, who appears to have a extra… reasonable sense of justice than his predecessor however is not any much less cautious of Dodger’s and Fagin’s partnership.
Extra new solid members embrace Jeremy Sims because the governor’s wealthy duke of a brother, Dickie, and Zac Burgess as Dickie’s right-hand man, Phineas Golden, who may simply catch the attention of Belle’s sister, Woman Fanny (Lucy-Rose Leonard).
Returning alongside Brodie-Sangster, Thewlis, Mitchell, and Leonard are Susie Porter as Woman Jane Fox, Damien Garvey as Governor Fox, Tim Minchin as Darius Cracksworth, Nicholas Burton as Dr. Sneed, and Kim Gyngell because the newly sober however no extra helpful Prof. They’re joined by fellow season 1 solid members Luke Carroll as Tim, Vivienne Awosoga as Hetty, Aljin Abella as “Flashbang,” Brigid Zengeni as “Rotty,” and Albert Latailakepa as Aputi.
It is the toffs versus everybody else in Port Royal, with Dodger and Belle caught within the center. With a rogue killer on the unfastened, new heists to plan, and extra lives on the road, something can occur in The Clever Dodger season 2.
All episodes of The Clever Dodger season 2 are streaming now on Hulu and Disney+.
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November 29, 2023
- Community
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Disney+
- Administrators
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Jeffrey Walker, Corrie Chen, Gracie Otto
- Writers
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Andrew Knight, Dan Knight, James McNamara, Vivienne Walshe
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Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Dr Jack Dawkins