The Nevers, HBO scifi series looking interesting
The Nevers is an HBO science fiction series created by Joss Whedon. The series first episode premiered on April 11, 2021. The first season will consist of twelve episodes that will be split into two six-episode parts.
It is targeted to be an epic science fiction drama during Victorian period, centered on a gang of women who discover they possess unusual abilities and are soon targeted by relentless enemies while they are on a world-changing mission.Cast Main Laura Donnelly as Amalia True: One of The Touched, with the ability to see glimpses of the future. The most irresponsible, spontaneous, and psychologically broken hero of 19th-century London, and a danger to the British elite. She is dedicated to her cause and never turns down a drink.[3] Ann Skelly as Penance Adair: Amalia's best friend, and a Touched with the power to 'see' electrical energy patterns and a skill for inventing. She is both religious and heretically progressive. Olivia Williams as Lavinia Bidlow: A rich spinster supporter of the "Touched" (aka metahumans), who also runs The Orphanage where many of the main characters live. James Norton as Hugo Swann: A pansexual aristocratic young man, who owns a private club and specializes in extortion. Tom Riley as Augustus "Augie" Bidlow: A kind geek, Lavinia's brother and secretly one of the Touched. Pip Torrens as Lord Massen: A former military man and strong supporter of the British Empire, and very skeptical regarding people with extraordinary powers. Denis O'Hare as Dr. Edmund Hague: A brutal American surgeon. Rochelle Neil as Annie Carbey, aka Bonfire: A criminal with the ability to generate balls of flame. Amy Manson as Maladie: An unstable member of The Touched living underground. Maladie is not only in charge of a band of renegades, she is on a killing spree. Zackary Momoh as Doctor Horatio Cousens: A West Indian physician. Amalia was there when he discovered his own power to heal. He collaborates with her, and the Beggar King. Eleanor Tomlinson as Mary Brighton: A failed singer who has a big surprise ahead of her. Nick Frost as Declan Orrun, aka The Beggar King: Charismatic and brutal, Declan is in command of London's low-level criminals. Sometimes he works with Amalia and her cause – and sometimes he is just as happy to sell them out. Elizabeth Berrington as Lucy Best, a woman from a dirt poor upbringing who can shatter whatever she touches. Viola Prettejohn as Myrtle Haplisch, a girl who uncontrollably speaks in multiple languages but not English. Anna Devlin as Primrose Chattoway, a sixteen-year-old girl who is ten feet tall. Kiran Sonia Sawar as Harriet Kaur Ben Chaplin as Detective Frank Mundi: A large and gruff policeman with a strong sense of morals. He has a reputation for violence and heavy drinking. Ella Smith as DesirĂ©e Blodgett, a prostitute that causes others around her to pour out secrets when they are feeling strong emotions.
