‘The Nevers’ Trailer: HBO’s Victorian Superhero Series Debuts This April
Victorian era ladies with superpowers is a hell of a premise, even ifThe Nevershas had a bit of a hellish production. A supernatural action series set in a rich fantasy world featuring an ensemble of butt-kicking women,The Neverswas being primed asJoss Whedon’s return to TV before the creator left the project midway, leaving HBO to bring inPhilippa Goslettto replace him as showrunner and executive producer and cut the show’s 10-episode order down to six. But despite the show’s troubled background, it looks to make a strong debut on HBO this April.
Watch the officialThe Neverstrailer below.
The Nevers Trailer
Set in a world where a population of people “touched” with powerful abilities are persecuted,The Neverslooks like a cross betweenX-Men,Buffy the Vampire Slayer, andLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen. But most significantly,The Neversis refreshingly original — while familiar in some areas, it is not based on a book or existing IP. It sets up a very intriguing world: one where the “touched” are either profited on or persecuted, with a small group of superpowered women deciding to take their fates into their own hands.
Starring an ensemble cast that includesOlivia Williams,James Norton,Tom Riley,Rochelle Neil,Eleanor Tomlinson, andNick Frost,The Neverswas dreamed up by Whedon, who was set to showrun and executive produce the series before he suddenlydeparted the project in November. Though this seemed to result in a shortened first season, those first six episodes will be “Part One” of season 1, and will be followed by “Part Two,” also six episodes, at a later date, per HBO.
The Neversis also executive produced by Bernadette Caulfield, Ilene S. Landress, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson and Philippa Goslett.Amy Manson,Pip Torrens,Denis O’Hare,Zackary Momoh,Elizabeth Berrington,Kiran Sawar,Anna Devlin,Viola Prettejohn, andElla Smithround out the cast.
Here is the synopsis forThe Nevers:
August, 1896. Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people – mostly women – abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. But no matter their particular “turns,” all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger. It falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) to protect and shelter these gifted “orphans.” To do so, they will have to face the brutal forces determined to annihilate their kind.
The Neverspremieres on HBO on Sunday,April 11, 2021at9:00 P.M. ET/PT. See the new poster forThe Neversbelow.
