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4/11/2021 Joss Whedon's return to TV is an HBO drama about an underclass of Victorian women with strange gifts and superpowers. A darling of blockbuster cinema and cult TV less than a decade ago, Joss Whedon has faced enough recent accusations of unprofessional behavior that HBO can't even promote its new supernatural feminist empowerment drama as "From the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the director of The Avengers." Responses to the show will be so thoroughly filtered through viewer perceptions of the allegations that it would be easier if The Nevers were brilliant and easiest i...

After a strange event in 1896, a minority of mostly women find themselves “touched” with strange and sometimes dangerous powers. Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) is their leader, and fights to protect all the ‘Touched’ girls she can find — but strangers are seeking the girls for their own ends, and the Establishment is uneasy… by Helen O'Hara | Posted on HBO won a frenzied bidding war to make The Nevers, and it’s easy to see why everyone wanted it. The premise — a female-skewing, Victorian X-Men from the creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer — is rich in possibility for visual ...

Print Kicking butt in corsets and slaying with parasols, Victorian sci-fi drama “The Nevers” arrives under, or at least alongside, a cloud: Creator Joss Whedon, who left the series in November citing exhaustion, has been the subject of multiple allegations since last summer of creating an abusive work environment on other projects, including by “Justice League’s” Ray Fisher and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s” Charisma Carpenter and Michelle Trachtenberg. But if this meant HBO faced an even taller order turning its ambitious new series, now helmed by showrunner Philippa Goslett...

The new HBO drama, which follows a group of women who have been “touched” by some mysterious power that grants them extraordinary abilities, unabashedly embraces its cross-section of genres. It’s a historical drama awash in lush costuming and production design.

A cool, classily executed concept Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sporting Legends (Monday, March 22, TVNZ OnDemand) celebrates forgotten yarns from our athletic archive. Like Meda McKenzie, who swam the Cook Strait at 15, because a man told her it she couldn’t. Ruia Morrison, who winged her way to Wimbledon in 1957, or our most successful road-runner Anne Audain. Featuring intimate, relaxed interviews intercut with glossy, high-resolution drone shots, Scratched is authentic and prone to inducing warm fuzzies. Mamma mia, they made some moolah! In just eight years, ABBA went from Eurovision...