Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article gave an incorrect debut date for The Nevers.
“The Nevers,” an offbeat sci-fi series on HBO about Victorian women fighting against nefarious forces, is a Joss Whedon show.
That’s important to know at the outset, both creatively and culturally (and you’re not going to hear it from HBO). And that alone may be enough to turn some people away.
Whedon, who created shows including the brilliant “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the (hot take) overpraised “Firefly,” and directed some “Avengers” movies, has been accused of unprofessional behavior and creating an abusive work environment, both in his recent projects but also dating back to “Buffy.”
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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