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.
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Combining two of televisionâs most popular themes of the moment - a period setting and superpowers - seems a risky proposition, but
The Nevers, several years in the making, has wrung something new from these tropes.
Created by
Buffy The Vampire Slayerâs Joss Whedon (who has stepped down as the series showrunner amid investigations into his behaviour on 2017âs
Justice League, as well as during his time on
Thursday, 8th April 2021 at 5:57 pm
The Nevers – the latest big-budget series from HBO – is set to begin airing in the US this week, but UK audiences will have to wait a little while longer before it becomes available on this side of the Atlantic.
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The series, which was created by Joss Whedon before he left the show last November, boasts a fine line-up of British acting talent and an intriguing premise, offering a sci-fi twist on Victorian London.
Read on for everything you need to know about The Nevers, including how to watch in the UK and what we know about the plot.
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.
Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly are the heroes of the new HBO series The Nevers.
THE NEVERS (Joss Whedon, Philippa Goslett). Premieres Sunday (April 11) at 9 pm on Crave, with new episodes airing weekly. Rating:
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The Nevers was to be Joss Whedon’s first television series since Dollhouse, and technically it still is: while the writer/director/producer departed the show last November, claiming exhaustion, principal photography for the first season had already been shot. Post-production was completed by Philippa Goslett, who replaced Whedon as showrunner in January… shortly before cast members of Whedon’s previous projects came forward with accusations of abusive behaviour dating back to Buffy The Vampire Slayer.