The Artful Dodger teaser: At last, a Dickens sequel series where the Artful Dodger is a doctor

Sporting one of the very worst taglines we’ve ever seen for a television show—“The Dodger is in,” which is nothing—the series stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster as an adult version of Oliver Twist’s old pal, who must balance his past (and, occasionally, present) love of theft with his more respectable life as a doctor. David Thewlis co-stars as Dodger’s old pal Fagin, who apparently intrudes into his new life as a reminder that you can never truly escape your past, especially if your past is recounted in one of the most popular novels of all time, a hit musical, and a movie in which you were played by Billy Joel as a dog.

In addition to Brodie-Sangster and Thewlis, the series also stars Maia Mitchell as a young woman who apparently knows Dodger’s secret and like to swirl chemicals around in beakers. The tone of the whole thing actually feels pretty fun: Some heists, some class consciousness, a bit of light 19th century medical horror; we’ll know more when the series debuts on Hulu on November 29.