CinemaBlend Major spoilers below for the first episode of HBO's new series The Nevers, so be warned. Mare of Easttown falls on the realistic side of the fictional spectrum, HBO's other new female-fronted series The Nevers tells a much more fantastical story. Centering on an orphanage filled with ability-laden characters dubbed the "Touched," The Nevers is something of a Victorian superhero story, which speaks to it being the creation of MCU and DCEU vet Joss Whedon (for better or worse), who left the series mid-production. Instead of keeping audiences in the dark about the origins behind the Touched characters' turns,