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Review: âThe Nevers,â From HBO and (Formerly) Joss Whedon
An allegorical alt-superhero series about gifted women in Victorian London makes it to the screen, but without its currently embattled creator.
In âThe Nevers,â Laura Donnelly stars as a prescient leader of a community of gifted but marginalized Victorian Londoners.Credit.Keith Bernstein/HBO
April 8, 2021, 12:20 p.m. ET
One of the puzzlements of âThe Nevers,â the new alt-superhero show beginning Sunday on HBO, is the title. The peculiarly gifted late-Victorian Londoners, mostly women, who serve as the showâs heroes (and some of its villains) are never called âneversâ; theyâre most often referred to as the Touched. In the first four of the seriesâs 12 episodes, nothing is called the Nevers. You can understand not calling a show âThe Touched,â but itâs still a little confusing.