Season 1

"A touch of power can change the world."

Episodes

12

Premiere	Finale
"Touched"	To be announced.

(April 11, 2021)

(To be announced.)

The first season of The Nevers television series will have 12 episodes, broken into two parts. Part One premiered on April 11, 2021 on HBO and is available to stream on HBO Max. Part Two will be released in 2022.^[1]

The season was originally going to have 10 episodes, but the filming was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic through the fifth episode. Shooting returned in September, when they finished the fifth and sixth episode. HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys explains: "There was kind of a natural narrative break at six. So that was the thought then was to air six episodes. So at least we had something to put out there for subscribers and fans."^[2] The season was then expanded to two parts of six episodes each.^[3]

The series premiere drew over 1.4 million viewers across linear and digital during its premiere on Sunday night, the best debut for an HBO Max original series.^[4]

Synopsis

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.^[3]

Cast

Main cast

Laura Donnelly as Amalia True / Zephyr Navine
Ann Skelly as Penance Adair
Olivia Williams as Lavinia Bidlow
James Norton as Lord Hugo Swann
Tom Riley as Augustus "Augie" Bidlow
Pip Torrens as Lord Gilbert Massen
Denis O'Hare as Dr. Edmund Hague
Rochelle Neil as "Bonfire" Annie Carbey
Amy Manson as Maladie
Zackary Momoh as Horatio Cousens
Eleanor Tomlinson as Mary Brighton
Elizabeth Berrington as Lucy Best
Viola Prettejohn as Myrtle Haplisch
Ella Smith as Désirée Blodgett
Anna Devlin as Primrose Chattoway
Kiran Sonia Sawar as Harriet Kaur
Ben Chaplin as Inspector Frank Mundi

Recurring cast

Martyn Ford as Nicolas "Odium" Perbal
Vinnie Heaven as Nimble Jack
Zain Hussain as Aneel
Pui Fan Lee as Su Ping Lim
George Dawson as Arthur Twimble
Domenique Fragale as Elisabetta Cassini
Sylvie Briggs as Clara Stowe
Jack Wheatley as Nigel Blodgett
Brett Curtis as George
Nicholas Farrell as Prince Albrecht
Andrew Havill as Douglas Broome
Tim Steed as Lord Allaven-Tyne
Rupert Vansittart as Lord Broughton
Timothy Bentinck as General Pecking
Mark Benton as the Colonel
Matt Emery as Detective Birch
Lola Dubus as Dominique
David Garrick as Winemar Kroos

Episodes

Part One

Six episodes have been announced for the first part of this season:^[5]

No.	Title	Writer	Director	Debut
01	"Touched"	Joss Whedon	Joss Whedon	April 11, 2021
02	"Exposure"	Jane Espenson	Joss Whedon	April 18, 2021
03	"Ignition"	Kevin Lau	David Semel	April 25, 2021
04	"Undertaking"	Madhuri Shekar	David Semel	May 2, 2021
05	"Hanged"	Melissa Iqbal	Joss Whedon	May 9, 2021
06	"True"	Jane Espenson	Zetna Fuentes	May 16, 2021

Part Two

Additional 6 episodes will be announced for the second part of season 1.^[3]

No.	Title	Writer	Director	Debut
07	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
08	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
09	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
10	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
11	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
12	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Releases

The official podcast The Touch Base follows the release of each episode.
Season 1: Soundtrack from the Original Series is an album that collects Mark Isham's original soundtrack for season 1 part 1.
The home video Season 1, Part 1, available in DVD and Blu-ray, collects the first six episodes and bonus material.