She and Maladie switched places right before Frank took her in, and she’s willing to die for her boss. It’s the women who worked for her, the one who wanted desperately to be Touched. As it ends up, this isn’t Maladie at all. You know something is up because the episode never gives us a good look at Maladie’s face, always hiding her at a distance or behind a mane of matted hair. The through-line about Maladie’s public execution is better, but the show still plays games with us. Let us in on the secret, man!Įverything involving the Galanthi annoyed me. On that note, why does Augie choose to go with Amalia over Penance? What does the Galanthi mean to him, cause it must mean something. So the show knows it’s not delivering in this area, but rather than doing better it’s just admitting it and hoping that’s enough. I feel like I’m dropping in a conversation midway through and it’s getting annoying.Īmalia even lampshades how undercooked the mythology of the show is when she tries to convince people to help her reach the Galanthi. “I know I’ve been vague about what that means but it’s the first step to learning why we were brought here together and what we’re meant to do next,” she says. I don’t know how it got this far or what I’m doing next,” Amalia replies. Isn’t that why you’re here?” Penance shoots back. “The future of the world depends on the present. It’s bizarre.Īnd the show keeps dropping hints that Amalia is something more than what she appears, which is fine, but taken with all the other vagueness, it’s starting to grate. “The future of the world depends on what I’m doing,” she tells Penance, who apparently knows what it means. The Nevers is a character-driven show that leaves out the character development. For instance, why is Nimble Jack suddenly part of the gang? Apparently he’s so entrenched that Penance’s plan to free Maladie depends on him, but we didn’t see any of this closeness develop. What power? How will it makes things right? How does it provide anyone with hope? I feel like there’s a whole episode missing or something. “You expect me to turn my back on the only power that can make all of this right, that told me a month ago it needs me, so that we can prove to the public we’re in league with a psychotic killer,” Amalia spits at Penance. And not only do they know the word, they know what it means and why it’s important. Did we know that’s what it was called before? Because all the characters talk as if it’s been explained to them. Here she is arguing that saving Maladie is important to show the girls that being Touched shouldn’t be a death sentence: “A part of them breaks or goes quiet for always when the world turns beastly, when we just let it.” I don’t think every actor could make sense of that line, but Skelly gets there.īut this scene also has some of the issues I’ve come to expect from The Nevers, namely its tendency to rush into plot twists without laying the groundwork we need to understand them. Their argument is believable and acted to the hilt by Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly, who’s really good at selling some of this loopy dialog. We pick up about a month after Maladie’s anti-climatic capture last week, and Amalia and Penance come into conflict over whether to save her from her public execution or use the opportunity while everyone is distracted to tunnel under the city and find the Galanthi, the ship that gave the Touched their powers in the first place, the one that Lavinia and Dr. It will be creative, it will be quirky, it will look great, it will have explosive set pieces, and it will be full of twisty dialog that gives it a real sense of character. By Dan Selcke 2 years ago Another new episode of The Nevers, another collection of lovingly hand-crafted character details drowning in a muddled storyline.įive episodes in, I think I know basically what to expect from an episode of The Nevers.
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