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Never say never in Victorian England
The underclass gets superpowers in fantastical new sci-fi series The Nevers, which airs issues of racism, misogyny and the pervasiveness of technology
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Actresses Laura Donnelly (left) and Ann Skelly (right) play members of a new superpowered underclass that finds itself feared and shunned in the series, The Nevers.
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Alison de Souza In Los Angeles, Alison de Souza
Created by writer-director Joss Whedon (The Avengers, 2012), the buzzy new science-fiction series The Nevers is set in Victorian London after a strange supernatural event endows some people - mostly women - with special abilities.
Northern Irish actresses Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly play two of "the touched" - a new superpowered underclass that finds itself feared and shunned in equal measure, and slowly being hunted down by dark forces.
