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We all have our own visions of London - the skyscrapers, the bustling underground, the suave city boys, the fashionistas and the glamour of the West End.
Yet all of that will disappear from your mind when you enter the wicked, wild and wonderful world of The Nevers - Sky s enchanting new drama, set to hit screens on 17th May, that is set to have you HOOKED, thanks to twists, turns, horror and delight woven throughout.
As we take a journey back in time to 1896, toward the end of Victoria s reign, we meet The Touched - a host of individuals, mostly women, who are taking London by storm with their newly-acquired, unique and VERY useful talents.
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Just when I thought I had a tenuous grasp on where the series was going the Turned fighting a widespread campaign of oppression led by Lord Massen, possibly assisted by Lavinia and Dr. Hague screenwriter Jane Espenson and director Zetna Fuentes make my assumptions disappear as quickly as I would have eaten all of those delicious financiers. Instead, “True,” the sixth and final episode of this first half of the first season of
The Nevers, connects nearly all of our questions about Amalia into one sprawling episode that shifts our genre focus from steampunk to sci-fi. Was it ambitious to load in all this backstory and exposition, use a whole-new vocabulary of terminology, and explain the horror of divisive nuclear war and the potential of the Galanthi in about 35 minutes? Absolutely. Was it messy?
HBO’s The Nevers about Victorians with superpowers always hinted that it was about much more than that. With the first part of season one now complete, we finally have insight into some of the show’s mysteries, and a revived interest in what will happen next.