never say NEVERS?!.....1st teaser trailer for Joss Whedon's superpowered 'The Nevers'......

[NewtonMP2100]

......debuts in April on HBO......6 episodes......Joss Whedon already 'stepped away' due to 'exhaustion'.....


Joss Whedon's The Nevers: Watch a Teaser for HBO's Victorian Sci-Fi Drama

......The time is right now for The Nevers — that is, if you want to watch a teaser and see first photos for Joss Whedon’s long-gestating Victorian sci-fi drama for HBO.

Set to debut this April on HBO as well as stream on HBO Max, the six-episode series is set in the last years of Victoria’s reign, as London is beset by the “Touched”: people, mostly women, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities — some charming, some very disturbing.

Among the Touched are Amalia True (played by Outlander‘s Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Red Rock‘s Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. “They are the champions of this new underclass,” reads the synopsis, “making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces – to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.”

The Nevers‘ cast also includes Olivia Williams (Dollhouse), James Norton (Grantchester), Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons), Rochelle Neil (TV’s Das Boot), Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark), Amy Manson (Once Upon a Time), Pip Torrens (The Crown), Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story), Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds), Elizabeth Berrington (Sanditon), Kiran Sawar (Pure), Anna Devlin, Viola Prettejohn, Ella Smith (Babylon), Nick Frost (Into the Badlands) and Ben Chaplin (The Letter for the King).

Whedon — who stepped away from the day-to-day of the project back in November, saying he was “genuinely exhausted” — created the series and executive-produced it with Bernadette Caulfield, Ilene S. Landress, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson and Philippa Goslett......


NEVER.....gonna'.....give........you up.....?!

[anonymouse1]

Thanks. Looks very Whedon!

[Blankity Blank]

Looks kind of interesting, but feels a little familiar.

We are getting to the point where simply gender flipping or having a decent number of women main characters (Finally getting somewhere close, as long as it’s taken) is enough to be the one leg needed for a really good piece of entertainment, but give them great stories, with interesting premises, too.

The ‘mysterious event from nowhere, spreads powers willy nilly is starting to feel a bit shopworn. But, that was just a teaser, so we’ll see.

[rjmacs]

I just wish Whedon's female characters were ever able to escape the trope of being Joss' personal fantasies of what a super-awesome woman would be like. I've never felt like his women, at the end of the day (and with some incredible actors portraying them), have ever really been fully realized humans. It's more like seeing a comic book story written by a guy with great conceptual notions but no idea what it's like to be a woman.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....he does like to cheat.....with them though......