I’m touched by ‘The Nevers’ | Faith Matters
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There’s something about “The Nevers,” HBO’s new sci-fi, historical, whodunit, even spiritual, drama that’s an allegory for what the U.S. is going through today.
It’s set in Victorian England in the last year of the 19th century, when there was enormous change in society. The Industrial Revolution was underway, electricity was invented, and psychology was the rage.
Three years earlier, a strange, light-infused cruciform floated in the sky, dropping small balls of light that seemed to land on people, thus making them “touched.” They now have unique, special powers called “a turn.”