The Nevers hires new director for next suite of episodes
By Dan Selcke
The Nevers, the Victorian fantasy series from Joss Whedon, aired its mid-season finale last month, and it was…interesting. The show has more or less gotten good marks and seems to have found an audience, but it also had some pretty glaring pacing problems. Coupled with Whedon’s scandalous fall from grace, I wondered if that meant HBO might quietly retire the show, even after hiring British screenwriter Philippa Goslett to replace Whedon as showrunner.
As it ends up, no. Deadline reports that the network has hired Andrew Bernstein to serve as a director and executive producer on the show, so it looks like they’re going ahead.
Bernstein has a resume that makes him a good fit for pretty much any show, having worked on HBO’s The Outsider, Ozark, Mad Men, The Umbrella Academy, Fear the Walking Dead and more. Paired with a good writing team, he could probably do the show good.
HBO will make more episodes of The Nevers
I enjoyed the first six episodes of The Nevers, which is about a group of Victorian woman gifted with superpowers who find themselves fighting against a hostile British establishment while they try to unravel the mystery of their abilities. There’s a lot of creative energy in it, the performances from folks like Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly and are notch, and the whole X-Men-meets-Charles-Dickens concept is pretty fun.
That said, the first season was pretty choppy in places, and the show has a habit of being so energetic it rushes way ahead of the audience. It’s a bit indulgent, but there’s definitely enough juice there that I want to see more. I wish Goslett and Bernstein the best!
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