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Television has been graced with all sorts of wild, intriguing concepts over the last few years, but few match what HBO is brining with The Nevers. The show puts you in the middle of Victorian London alongside two butt-kicking heroines with superhuman abilities. In fact, much of the main cast (comprised mostly of women and people of color) have their own mysterious superpowers. Put it all together and you’ve got one of the most interesting television series around right now.

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WiC: I want to also talk about characters because there are so many really good characters in this show. I love both of you all as characters. But I’m kind of partial to Primrose as well. She’s just this adorable Alice in Wonderland-like character, but if she were just permanently a giant! So I wanted to know, who is your favorite character and why?

Skelly: You stole mine! I love Primrose. I’m also not gonna say Amalia because… obviously! And I absolutely adore Anna Devlin who plays Primrose. She just does that so spectacularly well. I don’t know how she can play so much younger than she actually is as well. It just fooled all of us.

But I love [Pip Torrens’] character [Lord Massen]. I love him. And like, you shouldn’t like him. But I cry. I think I’ve watched the first episode maybe five times now. And I cry when he cries in this every single time. I just sob. And I think Pip, as well, is so different. He’s so warm and friendly and just a gorgeous person, and he’s not cold at all. He’s the most warmest, loveliest snuggle bunny in the land! And so yeah, I love him.

Donnelly:  I love Ella Smith’s character, Desirée, that we meet in the second episode. For starters, she’s got a brilliant turn. But I just love her total sense– of it’s an immovable sense of self. And Ella has that as well. I think she brings that really beautifully to that character. And on top of anything else, what Ella does extraordinarily is that Desirée speaks so fast — and clearly just has so much going on at all times — and the work that Ella has to put in in order to be able to deliver that in any way [that’s convincing] and that she’s not stumbling over, it must be immense. I mean, I think that Ella must have spent her entire time just learning lines… all the time!

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WiC: And finally, I don’t think anyone needs convincing to watch the show. But in your own words, if you could pitch this show, what are you excited for audiences to see?

Skelly: I think, a total refresh of the genre. I know there are Victorian period shows with sci-fi elements or period shows with sci-fi elements. But this show, I think, makes such incredible use of the sci-fi, and it makes it such incredible use of the abilities. And they’re so personalized, and there’s such different stories being told there. And you can make with them what you will, what the meaning is.

But like, for my character, I love that she’s one of the few who actually adores her power and can make use of it. But then there’s other characters who either have turns that completely are so useless to them, [or] there’s other characters who are just held back so much by their power, or that makes them stick out, or is dangerous.

Ryan Condal, co-showrunner of House of the Dragon, quoted at winteriscoming.net.

Ryan tested positive for COVID-19 just prior to the wrap party. He is apparently fine now but Omicron has caused some delay.

The speculation about the premiere of the series continues to nudge it further into the future. The two guys who do the Take the Black podcast are now talking about “August/September”

September would make more sense than August; wait until the academic year has started just about everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. In September people are getting into their post-summer or post-vacation routines. There’s a good reason why September has been a traditional time for starting new TV seasons.

”....the would-be king of Mercia Aethelred (Toby Regbo) stands out. Perhaps it’s his cruelty towards his wife Aethelflaed (Millie Brady), maybe it’s his boundless arrogance…in any case, it’s hard to find anything to like about the Lord of Mercia.