Alerts The Nevers is HBO’s new steampunk period drama, rife with supernatural turns, possible aliens, and a rather unsavory origin story. At the show’s center are The Touched, a mostly female group of outsiders who, by virtue of something that will surely be explained later, have been given various superpowers. Some are more powerful than others, of course—The girl who always knows Greenwich Mean Time, for instance, probably wishes she’d instead landed the power to throw fire—but all of those with powers have become social outcasts. They’re the others—or, in this case, The Nevers.