25 Most Hotly Anticipated New TV Shows Of 2020
2. The Nevers
There’s not much that could beat Patrick Stewart returning to Star Trek, but Joss Whedon returning to television with a high-concept mash-up of Victoriana steampunk, ensemble superhero team-up and feminist asskicking would probably do it.
Whedon has even more cache today as a writer/director, having shepherded the MCU’s Avengers to the big screen for two astonishingly successful movies. There’s a very persuasive argument that we wouldn’t have the Marvel Cinematic Universe we do in 2019 without Whedon’s perceptive, witty writing and flair for genre direction.
Supposedly ‘the Nevers’ isn’t the name of a group, but a reference to the outcast nature of people with paranormal abilities in this alternate Victorian England, as Whedon pointed out at Comic Con last year:
“They, themselves are not called that [The Nevers] in the show. It’s a phrase that’s meant to evoke a sort of reaction to their oddity, to what is considered unnatural. The idea that you should never be like this, you should never have existed... And that idea, that some people are not of the natural order, is fascinating to me... it’s one of those things where you take something negative, and you wear it as a badge of honour, basically. Certain things could never happen - they’re happening. And the people they’re happening to are taking their place in the world.”
The show has been filming for five months now for its 2020 debut, and is set to be a huge coup for HBO next year.