4/11/2021
Joss Whedon s return to TV is an HBO drama about an underclass of Victorian women with strange gifts and superpowers.
A darling of blockbuster cinema and cult TV less than a decade ago, Joss Whedon has faced enough recent accusations of unprofessional behavior that HBO can t even promote its new supernatural feminist empowerment drama as From the creator of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the director of
The Avengers.
Responses to the show will be so thoroughly filtered through viewer perceptions of the allegations that it would be easier if
The Nevers were brilliant and easiest if it were horrible. Instead, the first four episodes sent to critics are the exact sort of rough, unfocused opening that fans of
After a strange event in 1896, a minority of mostly women find themselves “touched” with strange and sometimes dangerous powers. Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) is their leader, and fights to protect all the ‘Touched’ girls she can find but strangers are seeking the girls for their own ends, and the Establishment is uneasy…
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HBO won a frenzied bidding war to make
The Nevers, and it’s easy to see why everyone wanted it. The premise a female-skewing, Victorian
X-Men from the creator of
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is rich in possibility for visual dazzle and a fresh take on an era where men’s stories too often dominate. And partly, it delivers on that promise. But on this evidence, the match was an uneasy one even before Joss Whedon left the show (replaced by Philippa Goslett), because HBO’s fondness for sex and violence sits awkwardly alongside a story that otherwise skews teenage.
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Kicking butt in corsets and slaying with parasols, Victorian sci-fi drama “The Nevers” arrives under, or at least alongside, a cloud: Creator Joss Whedon, who left the series in November citing exhaustion, has been the subject of multiple allegations since last summer of creating an abusive work environment on other projects, including by “Justice League’s” Ray Fisher and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s” Charisma Carpenter and Michelle Trachtenberg.
But if this meant HBO faced an even taller order turning its ambitious new series, now helmed by showrunner Philippa Goslett, into a worthy successor to “True Blood,” “Game of Thrones” and “Watchmen,” it’s one the cable giant has surmounted. Premiering Sunday, “The Nevers” ably continues the network’s tradition of making fantasy and sci-fi a prestigious television pursuit, this time in the splendor and grit of 1899 London.
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