The Nevers was one of the more curious offerings from HBO in 2021. Set in Victorian England, the show is about a group of people — mostly women — who are given superpowers, although they don’t from how they got them or why. They are known as the Touched. The series started off pretty wild — it’s kind of got a feminist Sherlock Holmes-meets-the-X-Men vibe — and things just got crazier from there.
But the show ran into problems. Like many other series, it was affected by the pandemic, and only ended up releasing six of a planned 10 episodes. On top of that, showrunner Joss Whedon — the guy behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Avengers — got caught up in some big scandals and left the show.
After that, I wondered if HBO might just let the show die a quiet death. But it didn’t. It hired British screenwriter Philippa Goslett to replace Whedon as showrunner and plans to release another six episodes next year. And now, the Daily Mail has pictures of the cast back in costume, so this is really happening.
Tom Riley (Augustus Bidlow) is back on the set of The Nevers
Technically, all they have is a picture of actor Tom Riley back in his prim-and-proper English finest as Augustus ‘Augie’ Bidlow, but that’s enough for me. Augie is a shy, Hugh Grant-ish gentleman and one of the few men to get Touched; he can exchange minds with birds, which is a power you’d think would have pretty limited applications, but who knows?
Augie is also involved in a kinda-sorta romance with Penance (Ann Skelly), the right-hand woman of main character Amalia True (Laura Donnelly). And that’s just the start of the ensemble; it runs pretty deep. I don’t know if The Nevers will able to become a giant hit for HBO, but I’ll be happy to see the lot of them when the series returns in 2022
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