'The Nevers' Final Episodes Now Streaming on Tubi

Life comes at you fast. Three years ago, in 2020, Joss Whedon's The Nevers was positioned as the Next Big British-ish Fantasy Series for HBO following Game of Thrones, including taking over the latter's coveted pre-Emmy vote schedule-block of Sundays at 9 p.m. in April and May. But Whedon's star fell fast after Justice League flopped; he was forced to resign from the series just before the pandemic hit, delaying filming the season's second half. Then AT&T sold the company to Discovery Networks and David Zaslav, whose first order of business was to cut everything that wasn't working, including The Nevers, despite having never aired its final four completed installments.

This was a blow for fans of the very ambitious, if quite flawed, series, as the first six episodes that did debut left viewers on one hell of a cliffhanger. After five episodes of a mystery creature or ship in the sky raining down seed on Victorian London, granting the women it touched bizarre superpowers, fans learned that the story wasn't an 1800s set period drama. It was a space-faring future-set series, where the leading character (Laura Donnelly's Amaila True) had been accidentally thrown back in time along with the alien creature vessel that bestowed these powers.

The final four episodes would have returned viewers to London in the 1800s, now armed with this new knowledge and far more cognizant of True's plan to have her gifted girls invent as many modern amenities as possible. With HBO's cancelation, it seemed like that was not to be.