is now streaming first on Showmax, with two episodes available to watch now and a new episode coming every Monday.
Billed as "
The Magicians meets
Bridgerton" by Refinery29, The Nevers drew over 1.4 million viewers to its premiere, the best-ever debut for an original series on HBO Max.
The Nevers kicks off in August 1896, with Victorian London rocked by a supernatural event that gives certain people - mostly women - abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. It falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True (Olivier Award winner Laura Donnelly from
Outlander) and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly from