Thank goodness for Tubi! When all seemed lost for HBO’s The Nevers, Tubi stepped in and picked up not only the previously released six episodes, but the next six that HBO turned down! Now, with over a year since the bombshell revelations of the last episode, what does “The Nevers” have in store? Let’s find out!
World’s Gone Mad | Beginning on the day of the Attack, Edmund Hague (Denis O’Hare) gets a large amount of calls on his numerous rotary phones, one of which moves him to unsettling tears. In 1899, the day after Maladie’s hanging, Penance (Ann Skelly) and Bonfire (Rochelle Neil) dig up a graveyard and find the body of one of the robotic soldiers that they’ve fought, as Amalia (Laura Donnelly) snoops around Massen’s mansion, which is now swarming with soldiers. The next day, Mundi (Ben Chaplin) tells the chief of police that Maladie is still alive, masquerading as Effie Boyle, but the chief not only doesn’t believe him, he threatens to out Mundi’s private relations with men if he tells anyone else. All this while earthquakes are rattling London, which Amalia tells Penance is the sign of the aliens beneath London starting to emerge.
The Truth | As Amalia and Penance head to the workshop to look at the robotic soldier’s body, Penance casually reveals to ALL the orphans waiting that Amalia is from the future. Naturally, everyone has questions, but Amalia brushes them off as she gets war flashbacks to her time as Zephyr. Elsewhere, Augustus (Tom Riley) prepares to tell Hugo (James Norton) that he is one of the Touched, but another earthquake interrupts him as Hugo announces plans to throw a party at his club.
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Lord Massen (Pip Torrens) catches his maid stumbling into his deceased daughter’s bedroom and orders her to leave, while Amalia, Penance and Cousens (Zackary Momoh) dissect the robot and find a gear with Chinese writing on it that points to a clock manufacturer. They head off, but turn Myrtle (Viola Prettejohn) away when she tries to tag along. That doesn’t stop Myrtle from taking one of Penance’s electric umbrellas and leaving anyway, as a black cloaked figure follows her.
Mundi interrogates Hugo, demanding to know what Effie Boyle said to him when they spoke and Hugo says that she told him to keep an eye on him. Lavinia (Olivia Williams) gets a visit from Hague, informing her of Amalia being at the dig site with the alien, which angers her. Amalia, Penance and Augustus head to the clockmaker, but run into a mob protesting the Touched. As the clockmakers find the origin of the gear they found, Amalia gets yet another flashback, which startles her so much that she walks away.
A Name to Our Enemy | Myrtle runs into a group of angry people messing with a Touched girl and tries to fight them off, but ends up fighting a young girl with a knife, who Myrtle accidentally stabs in the struggle. The cloaked figure arrives to find the body and it turns out to be none other than Lucy (Elizabeth Berrington), who covers for Myrtle to escape when she takes the girl’s body out into the streets. Amalia wanders through the streets and finds a door that looks like one from her flashbacks and enters it just as Penance shows up since it’s the same address they got from the clockmaker.
Inside, they find pictures of the robot soldiers with Hague’s name on them and the room with numerous phones from the opening. One of them rings and Amalia answers it and the voice on the other end knows that she’s from the future, saying, “Did you think you were the only one who hitched a ride?” Then, things get freaky as a robotic attack dog nearly mauls both of them before Penance strangles it with an electric cable. Amalia is seriously injured in the attack and breaks down on the sidewalk, before Penance gives her a rallying speech for the ages and hugs her. Sometime later, Hague returns to the house and finds that the women burned it to the ground, but the phone is ringing again. He answers it and hears singing, but it’s not coming from the phone- It’s coming from Maladie! (Amy Manson)
The Nevers is now streaming on Tubi.