The Nevers
Created by Joss Whedon
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the… From TMDB
102 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 14, 2026 · last updated Oct 14, 2026 · How this works
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 47% based on reviews from 68 critics. The website's critics consensus reads, "Despite strong performances and stellar production design, The Nevers struggles to stitch its slew of intriguing components into a solid show." On Metacritic, the series has a score of 57 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Ed Cumming of The Independent gave the series three stars out of five, calling it an "overstuffed junk shop of ideas" and disliked that too many "themes of alienation and acceptance unfold amid horse-drawn chases, expensive special effects, high-society orgies, corset brawls, and wainscoting aplenty."…
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60 of 102 · most liked firstThe success of 'Lost' left a bunch of sci-fi shows in it's wake. I stopped watching NBC sci-fi shows because of this. Persons Unknown (which I forgot had Chadwick Boseman) Awake (Jason Isaacs in the main role) Resurrection (ABC show) The Nevers (HBO, like if X-Men were in the Victorian era)
neutral · AI labelView post →The steampunk sci-fantasy drama series ‘The Nevers’ starring Laura Donnelly, Ann Skelly, Rochelle Neil, James Norton, Ben Chaplin, Nick Frost, and Olivia Williams premiered on HBO five years ago this week 📺 ✨ 🎭 #OTD
neutral · AI labelView post →everyone: The Nevers is a terrible show and it makes no sense me: WHY IS SHE EATING SEEDLESS GREEN TABLE GRAPES! THEY WEREN’T AVAILABLE UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY!
negative · AI labelView post →1899 Jericho Caprica The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. The Nevers (Firefly is the free square on this bingo board) (Would be interested in another series of Watchmen but the one season with the new story was clearly written as a single season; would want an original story just as good)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Expanse might be the finest Sci-Fi series on the planet. Possibly ever. It also will probably show up on another platform fairly quickly which is just Prime's way of creating the illusion of scarcity, but some of us are still looking for the last six episodes of The Nevers.
negative · AI labelView post →Post a TV show that starts with the letter N 📺 The Nevers
neutral · AI labelView post →For some reason, in the last two weeks I decided to open up the Joss Whedon history books. First, with a show I have to keep talking about or it might stop existing altogether: The Nevers collider.com/the-nevers-h...
positive · AI labelView post →share that canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about… 🖤 The Nevers
neutral · AI labelView post →to get a sense of Alan's influence in the industry, here's a small example: the time the head of HBO created a burner Twitter account because Alan didn't love THE NEVERS at a subsequent HBO upfront event the HBO head joked about it apologetically from the stage www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Nevers! We loved that show. Really sucked we didn't get more
positive · AI labelView post →Does it have to be a movie? If TV shows are OK, then The Nevers, which is a weird little supernatural Victorian tv show. Disclaimer, it's Joss Whedon produced and he got cancelled halfway through the seasons so I've never found the second half. But AMAZING costuming. Penny Dreadful may also qualify.
positive · AI labelView post →Best: @theclaudiablack.bsky.social. Was a real pleasure meeting her at ComicCon and interacting with her on Twitter when the show The Nevers aired is my all-time favorite moment on the platform. Worst: Ridley Scott. Me and 9 good people traveled abroad for the chance to meet him and he didn't care.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, and also Lavinia from The Nevers. I just read she will also play a major character in Season 3 of Wheel of Time and between her and Shohreh Aghdashloo joining the cast I'm thinking of giving the show another try.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d guess quite a few would unretire for a Gaiman show. The Nevers! Another great show that was relegated to the dustbin of idiot network leadership and (cough) creator, um, issues. 🤦♀️
positive · AI labelView post →A six part series called The Nevers.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE NEVERS was … well, it certainly was a TV show. But she shows up for one part of one episode and just crushes everything in her path.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Nevers is a great show
positive · AI labelView post →10 shows to get to know me: 1. Defiance 2. Killjoys 3. Graceland 4. The Morning Show 5. 12 Monkeys 6. Hemlock Grove 7. Van Helsing 8. Into the Badlands 9. The Nevers 10. Snowpiercer
neutral · AI labelView post →I felt this way about "The Nevers" on HBO - such a GREAT show and they cancelled it!?! GRR - probably because it centered on Women and their unusual powers after a strange event.
positive · AI labelView post →(it's easily my favorite whedon show, (ok I only watched like 3eps of The Nevers))
neutral · AI labelView post →We gave up on 'From' after 3 eps. If it turns out that they actually had a plan all along, I'll be happy to check it out, but not until then. The show that really turned me off 'Mystery Box' TV was 'Raised by Wolves'. And a show that looked to be doing it right, but was cancelled, was 'The Nevers'.
positive · AI labelView post →soon to feature in new series A Thousand Blows, Elizabeth Berrington also played one of the gang in HBO’s The Nevers
neutral · AI labelView post →We briefly toyed with the idea of incorporating the falling of the stones in the show The Nevers - thinking it had happened at the end of 1899 when our story was set. Discovering it was a year later ended the idea.
neutral · AI labelView post →Listen. I also hate Joss Whedon and think he might have murdered ? his cousin (?) (allegedly)? Anyway, I’m so mad the Nevers is nowhere on streaming. It was such a good show and was just getting started! Light years better than whatever the heck Dollhouse was.
positive · AI labelView post →Joss Whedon's back in the news! What better time to acquaint yourself with his last show, 2021's The Nevers! Sparkless writing, weak load-bearing premises, behind the scenes disgrace, The Nevers had it all. So how did it go so wrong? Thrawnderdome investigates. shows.acast.com/thrawnderdom...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just realised that The Nevers is on ITV (the HBO show) so I stuck it on while having lunch. Aside from their being about 5 mins of commercials before it began (thanks ITVX) there’s something really… odd about the colour grade in this show.
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet Stanley, drummer with The Nevers! Big show coming up at The Stables, Milton Keynes on 12 Dec. DM me for press kit and show pass. www.thenevers.co.uk #indierock #livemusic #stablesmk
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Nevers" was an amazing show with great world-building and we never even got to see the full first season. Canceled midway through, the second half never aired. It's nearly impossible to watch now, especially the second half of six episodes. This show had everything: powers, aliens, time travel!
positive · AI labelView post →I got hold of episodes 7-12 of The Nevers (as irony dictates, never officially available in the UK) and oddly enough, they are really good. Lots of money spent. Absence of Whedon not felt. Builds to a satisfying conclusion. HBO and Sky really let down their subscribers by suppressing this show.
positive · AI labelView post →Name a show you’re positive no one remembers, but you. The Nevers! 1 series and it was so good.
positive · AI labelView post →[mumbling about a show no one watched] joss whedon is the only person to make a good prestige lesbian* show in The Nevers *they are not explicitly lesbians
unlabelledView post →If they keep making Gaiman's shows, then they have to keep putting money in his pocket, and I doubt anybody really wants that association anymore, not even the cast and crew. It's a similar situation with HBO, Joss Wheddon and The Nevers. Great show, sadly associated with a piece of 💩
unlabelledView post →Ann Skelly got cast in a great show called The Nevers, which was basically assassinated because of Joss Whedon. But she dusted herself off and got cast in a really popular Netflix series .... Sandman S2, which will be the last one because of Neil Gaiman. That girl needs some better luck. 😞
unlabelledView post →The show is The Nevers the character is Zypher played by Laura Donnelly! Aliens, steampunk, and superpowers OH MY!!
unlabelledView post →The Nevers was HBO's best shot at a flagship steampunk series. Victorian setting. Superhero mythology. Female-led cast. Audience loved it. HBO put the finale on Tubi and walked away. 😤 👇 zuba-realms.beehiiv.com/p/hbo-s-stea...
unlabelledView post →Post a TV show that starts with the letter N 📺 The Nevers 🤍👌🏾
unlabelledView post →Just saw an advert that The Nevers is now on ITVX. Which is good for me as I remembered I never saw the second batch of episodes (did Sky even show them?). I want to finish the story...
unlabelledView post →Watching HBO's The Nevers for inspo mining and god that show takes the most insane swerve. No spoilers but the season one finale is basically a like being smashed over the head with a baseball bat that has a picture of Joss Whedon on it.
unlabelledView post →Reminds me so much of the series finale of The Nevers🥹
unlabelledView post →Hey, as long as i have your attn, let me gush for a second. There are many credits of yours that have hit me right in the feels, but the most unexpected jolt i ever got was from the episode True from The Nevers. That one episode (and Claudia Black) ensured I'll never forget that show.
unlabelledView post →The Nevers HBO Science fiction in a Victorian setting www.imdb.com/title/tt8697...
unlabelledView post →I just discovered the #TV series #TheNevers. The premiere episode was good, and it's set in the Victorian era which I really like. Sadly, only 12 episodes because it was cancelled. Why is it good shows get cancelled and garbage ones get multiple seasons these days? 🤪 The 20s is really bad for series productions, eh?
positive · AI labelView post →Watching The Nevers is like hearing a fairy tale for the first time. Such a wonderous concept & design! I have a slow growing respect for Joss Whedon (never cared for the buffy series). This story of an alt version of late victorian England is knocking me out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmeA...
unlabelledView post →im still mad at The Nevers not even airing part 2 of the season so now i just have half the series on dvd and unable to see the rest of it HBO count your days it was even an original show for you
unlabelledView post →Anyone remember that HBO show The Nevers? Probably not, but anyway, the crew actually put out a statement right before it started along the lines of “The title is just a play on the expression ‘Well I never,’ please don’t drive yourself crazy looking for something in the show called a never.”
unlabelledView post →He doesn't age well, though, clearly. I saw the aborted attempt at his last show, The Nevers. Some interesting ideas--well, way too many interesting ideas--but an awful lot of retreads as well, even within whatever it was, 6, 8 episodes.
unlabelledView post →Lmaoo its lowkey one of my fav tropes i love noir films and upset that theres basically no women lead neonoir films/shows. The Nevers which is great is the only one i can think of [which is great]
unlabelledView post →@jwilker There are rumors that they filmed more episodes that were on a streaming service, but I never figured out how to watch them. To be clear, I loved #TheNevers. Great cast, strong character development, interesting story. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
positive · AI labelView post →She had a brief but crucial appearance in The Nevers as well. Her episode was far and away the best of that series - wrapped up too quickly and cancelled unfortunately.
unlabelledView post →From the rolling stone article about their fake Twitter accounts, HBO’s sock puppet accuses a critic of hating women for saying The Nevers was a bad show (it was terrible)…not long before WB canned The Nevers and like 3-4 other projects fronted by female main characters.
unlabelledView post →@lisamelton Hey! Just wanted you to know you are loved...massively! ❤️ Also, still want you to do more podcasts on SciFi shows. Now that #TheNevers is fully released, what say you and @Verso pick up and do the full season?
neutral · AI labelView post →I got to watch the second half of #TheNevers now on Tubi. I can see why it was not picked up for a second season but it did deserve to finish its first season run. #scifi #tvseries
neutral · AI labelView post →There's an episode of the HBO show 'The Nevers' that centers around outrage involving a public execution in England. Many consider it a barbaric practice from the distant past, not fit for an enlightened, modern society. The show is set in 1896.
unlabelledView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #HBO #HBOMax #TheNevers HBO's Cancelled 12-Episode Series Is a Steampunk Masterpiece http://dlvr.it/TTwwXQ
unlabelledView post →The Nevers and (the tv show) Dark Matter from the mid-2010s
unlabelledView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #TheNevers #HBOMax HBO Max’s 12-Episode ‘His Dark Materials‘ Meets ‘The Magicians’ Fantasy Series Is the Perfect Weekend Binge http://dlvr.it/TSrpVk
unlabelledView post →If we have to revive another Whedon show (presumably without him, like Buffy has done) can it be The Nevers? Like Firefly, it was just getting good when it stopped.
unlabelledView post →The Nevers is actually a great show to watch at Christmas 🎄 The magic mysteries and human warmth make the show a perfect holiday adventure for grownups! 12 thrilling hours of tv ! A shame part 2 is still so complicated to find. #thenevers #christmaswatch #tvshow #warner @janeespenson.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #HBO #HelloLadies #TheNevers These 8 HBO Shows Didn't Deserve Their Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores http://dlvr.it/TPgRw9
unlabelledView post →The Nevers (2021): FUCK HBO. The first 6 episodes of this show are some of the smartest writing you will ever see on television. Then there was a 2nd wave of Covid and it's creator left because of being Joss Whedon.
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