You can’t watch HBO’s latest superhero series “The Nevers” and not have “The X-Men” or the vampire-slaying Buffy Summers cross your mind.
The series, which launches at 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. tomorrow on HBO and HBO Go (channels 54/168 on SkyCable; 53/210 on Cignal)), is about a ragtag group of female misfits in London called the Touched. Each of them developed extraordinary abilities following a supernatural phenomenon in August 1896.
Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) lead this bevy of Victorian outcasts seeking refuge in a shelter owned by their mysterious benefactor, the wheelchair-bound Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams), as they come to terms w…
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