Hulu's The Artful Dodger is returning for a second season three years later - so who is and isn't returning after that deadly cliffhanger? Acting as a sequel to Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger is set in the 1850s and follows Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), who is a former Royal Navy surgeon trying to establish himself as a respected young doctor. "When an old acquaintance, Fagin, resurfaces, it forces Jack, once a London-based pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger, back into a life of crime," read the official synopsis.