Ten minutes into
The Nevers, Laura Donnelly swaggers into a fight and "kicks the shit out of a few undeserving males," (as Olivia Williams told
Digital Spy), followed by some "snappy dialogue that includes words you have to look up in the Oxford English Dictionary."
The Nevers puts its best foot forward early on (right into a man's face) by foregrounding Amalia True as the latest kickass woman to quip and punch her way out of danger. Sound familiar? It's a fun, promising start for HBO's latest fantasy show, but then as the show progresses, what starts out as a niggling sense of déjà vu soon becomes all-consuming.