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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.
It almost feels unfair to judge
The Nevers based on the six episodes that begin airing this month, dubbed “Part One” of the show’s 12-episode first season. The new HBO drama has inadvertently become controversial, thanks to its creator Joss Whedon, who wrote and directed the pilot and initially served as showrunner until he stepped down in November 2020, citing exhaustion amid a wave of ongoing scandals. According to the show’s stars, Whedon worked on this first batch of episodes, and the version of
The Nevers premiering on April 11 is the closest thing we’ll get to his version of the show. When “Part Two” of this season premieres (“at a later date,” per HBO)
The new HBO drama, which follows a group of women who have been “touched” by some mysterious power that grants them extraordinary abilities, unabashedly embraces its cross-section of genres. It’s a historical drama awash in lush costuming and production design.
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