HBO’s The Nevers will build off the legacy that Buffy started.
The Nevers was written by former Buffy producers Douglas Petrie and Jane Espenson and Buffy creator Joss Whedon. During an interview with CBR, The Nevers star Amy Manson (Maladie) shared how HBO’s upcoming sci-fi series expands on Buffy‘s ending message about the power of united women. “It’s 100% showing a feminine united front,” Manson stated.
Manson added, “It shows two factions that are Touched, and they eventually come together… Or do they? It’s kind of about figuring out why it’s certain women — and some men — that have been given these special abilities. But because they’re almost out-ed by society, because of these abilities, they end up merging their talents, or their Terms, as they call them.”
The Maladie actor also discussed how the show will be as much about where these powers come from, as about how the Touched choose to use them, noting, “The show starts with all these women figuring out why… It’s not even why. It’s like, what is this that they’d got? Is it a disease? And society thinks that it is.” She added, “And then they join forces and it’s almost like it’s a new breed, a new race of existence.”
Buffy ended in 2003 in its seventh season. The series finale, “Chosen,” saw Buffy and the Scooby Gang decide to activate all potential slayers with the power of The One. Buffy then is able to defeat The First evil by activating a new generation of slayers so that no one women will ever have to hold the burden of being the only slayer in one generation again.
The official synopsis for The Nevers reads,
August, 1896. Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people – mostly women – abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. But no matter their particular “turns,” all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger. It falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) to protect and shelter these gifted “orphans.” To do so, they will have to face the brutal forces determined to annihilate their kind.
The Nevers stars Laura Donnelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Ann Skelly, Ben Chaplin, Pip Torrens, Zackary Momoh, Amy Manson, Nick Frost, Rochelle Neil, Eleanor Tomlinson and Denis O’Hare. The series premieres April 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.
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