The actor joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about starring in the new HBO/Sky Atlantic science fiction drama series, The Nevers, which is now available to watch via Sky on demand. Set in London during the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, it focuses on people - mostly women - who suddenly gain abnormal abilities. Known as “the Touched,” some of their
Sunday, 11th April 2021 at 11:00 am
New HBO/Sky Atlantic drama The Nevers introduces a sort of Victorian X-Men story, with a host of unassuming people (usually women, but not exclusively) gaining strange afflictions or abilities that set them apart from normal society.
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Called âThe Touchedâ, these people are intriguing to some, feared by others and hunted by many more, with the unique âturnsâ often being more of a curse than a gift.
But what powers do the characters in The Nevers actually possess? What are their turns and how do they work? While we havenât learned the truth about every character just yet, hereâs an early look at what The Touched can do.
After a strange event in 1896, a minority of mostly women find themselves “touched” with strange and sometimes dangerous powers. Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) is their leader, and fights to protect all the ‘Touched’ girls she can find but strangers are seeking the girls for their own ends, and the Establishment is uneasy…
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HBO won a frenzied bidding war to make
The Nevers, and it’s easy to see why everyone wanted it. The premise a female-skewing, Victorian
X-Men from the creator of
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is rich in possibility for visual dazzle and a fresh take on an era where men’s stories too often dominate. And partly, it delivers on that promise. But on this evidence, the match was an uneasy one even before Joss Whedon left the show (replaced by Philippa Goslett), because HBO’s fondness for sex and violence sits awkwardly alongside a story that otherwise skews teenage.