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Apr. 12, 2021 5:39 PM
You really know your kids have grown up when they stop asking you unanswerable questions. You know, queries like “Where do Jews go when they die?” (Don’t know, but for many it involves going via Florida.) And “Why does God let bad things like earthquakes and the Netanyahu family happen?” (Nope, got me there.)
Those questions become far more prosaic as children mature, but not necessarily any more answerable. After all, what do you say to your teenage girls when they ask, “What’s the story with Woody Allen?” – other than “Why, has he asked you to babysit?”
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The Nevers is HBO’s new steampunk period drama, rife with supernatural turns, possible aliens, and a rather unsavory origin story. At the show’s center are The Touched, a mostly female group of outsiders who, by virtue of something that will surely be explained later, have been given various superpowers. Some are more powerful than others, of course The girl who always knows Greenwich Mean Time, for instance, probably wishes she’d instead landed the power to throw fire but all of those with powers have become social outcasts. They’re the others or, in this case, The Nevers.
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The Nevers was to be Joss Whedon’s triumphant return to television, his first original series since 2010’s
Dollhouse. In the interim, of course, he made
The Avengers and co-created Marvel’s
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, but HBO Max’s new drama about female Victorian superheroes seemed to be a return to form for Whedon after nearly a decade entrenched in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But what’s ironic is that
The Nevers, rather than being an original new act, feels like someone else playing around in Whedon’s IP: an Orphanage setting reminiscent of the Dollhouse, down to the same overseer in actress Olivia Williams; a grating antagonist spouting Drusilla’s rejected dialogue from
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