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17 May

Sky Atlantic’s The Nevers Proves That Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

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This article contains spoilers for The Nevers episode 1 but not for future episodes. The Nevers is a series that often defies description. A Victorian-set fantasy adventure that features a gang of primarily young women who gain supernatural and superhuman abilities, it’s a story about everything from faith and prejudice to hope and change. Its narrative is sprawling and frequently confusing, with no real initial sense of how its disparate pieces connect to one another. (Or don’t.) And it features at least a dozen major characters who run the gamut from heroes to villains – and sometimes both at once.…

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17 May

The Nevers Star Laura Donnelly Answers Burning Finale Questions

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The following contains major spoilers for The Nevers episode 6. The star of HBO sci-fi series The Nevers has never shied away from the fact that the show’s sixth episode would be a big one. “Six is an extraordinary episode,” Donnelly (who plays Amalia True) told Den of Geek prior to the series premiere. “It provides a lot of the answers to the questions that the audience might have. It seemed like a very natural cut-off point.” Whether episode 6, titled “True”, is a natural cut-off point remains to be seen. Due to the coronavirus pandemic suspending production, the show’s…

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17 May

The Nevers Part 1 Finale Is The Most Surprising Hour of TV in a Long Time

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This article contains major spoilers for The Nevers episode 6. So that was something, huh? To those who have not yet seen The Nevers episode 6 “True” yet, the above headline may seem fairly overwrought. Really? The most surprising? Wasn’t the Invincible finale just like two weeks ago? To those who have seen the episode in question, however, that designation probably rings true. How else are we supposed to describe an hour that begins, not in 19th century Victorian era London like the show’s first five episodes, but rather in a far flung future in which 5 billion people are…

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26 Apr

How HBO’s The Nevers Explores a Very Different Vision of Victorian Girl Power

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This article contains spoilers for THE NEVERS episode 3. On paper, the idea of a steampunk superhero show that mixes period-set grittiness with ladies punching things seems like it should be a slam dunk. After all, most narratives about people gifted with sudden superhuman abilities are really just stories about power in fancier than usual dress. Shows like these examine who traditionally possesses power, who is allowed to wield it, how it is often used to prop up the privileged that already have it. And where better to explore these issues than Victorian England? The foggy nineteenth-century streets of London work so…

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19 Apr

The Nevers Begins to Uncover the Mystery of Maladie

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This article contains spoilers for The Nevers episode 2. Say what you will about HBO’s latest fantasy series The Nevers, but one thing cannot be denied: it’s got some great names. While original creator Joss Whedon and his questionable legacy have departed the project, he left behind some truly fascinating characters and character names for the show to work with.  The series lead is a tough, competent, and confident leader of misfits. What better name for such a person than the sturdy “Amalia True?” Amalia’s best friend is a sweet, sincere, and pious young woman whose name is the equal…

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12 Apr

The Nevers Episode 1 Review: a Tonal Mishmash

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This The Nevers review contains spoilers. The Nevers Episode 1 Who is The Nevers for? Not kids, clearly. The frolicsome humour, cartoony performances and grade school social commentary might suggest so, but the nudity, cursing and blood say no. It’s meant for adults then, those of us happy to go along with the essential YA-ness of its ‘Victorian orphanage for superpowered misfits’ premise. Episode one opens with a flashback montage introducing the ensemble of – mostly but not all – women in 1890s London. One repairs a broken pump with a clothespin, another queues for an opera audition, another is led away to an…

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07 Apr

How The Nevers Weathered COVID Delays and Joss Whedon’s Departure

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For a show called The Nevers, HBO’s latest fantasy endeavor doesn’t say no to a lot. The series, developed by erstwhile TV titan Joss Whedon, brings quite a few competing elements to the table. For starters, it’s set in a steampunk version of Victorian-era London. Ladies wear corsets, men wear bowlers, and everyone wears the same dour expression as they smell the rancid air around them. Then, in addition to its steampunk leanings, The Nevers goes full on X-Men with its hook. Due to a mysterious event, a sizable percentage of London society (though predominantly women) have developed supernatural mutant-like…

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26 Nov

Fandoms Roil Online as Joss Whedon Suddenly Quits His New HBO Show The Nevers

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Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has unexpectedly departed his upcoming HBO series, The Nevers. The revelation arrived in what some viewed as a “holiday news dump” just before Thanksgiving this week, and both Whedon and HBO’s statements on his exit had notably different vibes. Whedon had been working on The Nevers at HBO for two years with Buffy and Angel alums Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie. The series stars Outlander’s Laura Donnelly, and focuses on a group of women in Victorian times who fight enemies with their strange abilities. Usually a steady presence on Twitter, writer-director Whedon hadn’t…

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