{"id":897238,"date":"2021-05-19T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=897238"},"modified":"2021-05-19T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:15:25","slug":"review-the-nevers-makes-abrupt-turn-in-disorienting-midseason-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=897238","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Nevers makes abrupt turn in disorienting midseason finale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Laura Donnelly stars as Amalia True in HBO’s Victorian-era sci-fi drama, The Nevers<\/em>. (credit: HBO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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I’m not sure what I was expecting from the midseason finale for\u00a0The Nevers<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0HBO’s inventive and alluring science fiction drama set in Victorian England. But I certainly didn’t foresee being so disoriented that I briefly wondered if HBO Max had started airing an entirely different series by mistake. I won’t spoil the finale for you, but let’s just say that the revelations in that sixth episode set up a radical new direction for the series. I’m curious to see if the writers can stick the landing when the second half of the season eventually airs.<\/p>\n

(Some mild spoilers below, but no major reveals.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I’ve written previously<\/a>, HBO won a fierce bidding war and approved a straight-to-series order in 2018, with Joss Whedon (The Avengers<\/em>, Cabin in the Woods<\/em>, etc.) as writer, director, executive producer, and showrunner. Whedon brought Douglas Petrie and Jane Espenson\u2014both of whom worked with Whedon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>\u2014on board as additional writers\/executive producers.\u00a0Last November, Whedon announced he was quitting the project, citing exhaustion and the “physical challenges of making such a huge show during a global pandemic.” British screenwriter Philippa Goslett (Little Ashes, How to Talk to Girls at Parties<\/em>) took over as showrunner soon after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Laura Donnelly stars as Amalia True in HBO’s Victorian-era sci-fi drama, The Nevers. (credit: HBO) I’m not sure what I was expecting from the midseason finale for\u00a0The Nevers,\u00a0HBO’s inventive and alluring science fiction drama set in Victorian England. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-897238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/897239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}