Sometimes he works with Amalia and her cause – and sometimes he is just as happy to sell them out. Nick Frost as Declan Orrun, aka The Beggar King: Charismatic and brutal, Declan is in command of London's low-level criminals.Eleanor Tomlinson as Mary Brighton: A failed singer who has a big surprise ahead of her.He collaborates with her, and the Beggar King. Amalia was there when he discovered his own power to heal. Zackary Momoh as Doctor Horatio Cousens: A West Indian physician.Manson is credited with the pseudonym Margaret Tuttle when Effie appears. Maladie also disguises herself as Effie Boyle, a deceased journalist. Originally known as Sarah, Maladie is not only in charge of a band of renegades, but is on a killing spree. Amy Manson as Maladie / Sarah: An unstable member of The Touched living underground.Rochelle Neil as Annie Carbey, aka Bonfire Annie: A criminal with the ability to generate balls of flame.Edmund Hague: A brutal American surgeon who is experimenting on the Touched. Pip Torrens as Lord Gilbert Massen: A former military man and strong supporter of the British Empire, and very skeptical regarding people with extraordinary powers.Tom Riley as Augustus "Augie" Bidlow: A kind gentleman bird watcher, Lavinia's brother and secretly one of the Touched.James Norton as Hugo Swann: An aristocratic pansexual young man, who owns a private club and specializes in extortion.Olivia Williams as Lavinia Bidlow: A rich supporter of the Touched, and patron of the Orphanage where many of the main characters live.She is both religious and heretically progressive. Ann Skelly as Penance Adair: Amalia's best friend, and a Touched with the power of 'seeing' electrical energy patterns and a skill for inventing.Claudia Black portrays Zephyr in a previous body in the episode " True".She is dedicated to her cause and never turns down a drink. The most irresponsible, spontaneous, and psychologically broken hero of 19th-century London, and a danger to the British elite. Laura Donnelly as Zephyr Alexis Navine / Amalia True: One of The Touched, with the ability to see glimpses of the future.The Nevers is described as "an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian who find themselves with unusual abilities (due to alien intervention), relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world." Cast Main Laura Donnelly was the first actress to join the series in April 2019, with the rest of the cast joining in July 2019. The series received a straight-to-series order from HBO in June 2018, after a bidding war with other networks and streaming services including Netflix. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious and quick-fisted widow, and her best friend Penance Adair, a brilliant inventor. The series is set in Victorian London and follows a group of people, mostly women, known as the Touched, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities. The first season is set to consist of 12 episodes, split into two six-episode parts, with the second half debuting in 2022. The series is produced by HBO and Mutant Enemy Productions with executive producers including Whedon, Philippa Goslett, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson, Ilene S. More at Books and podcasts available at linktr.ee/johnlim Get "I Am a Professional Metalhead" Audiobook free with Audible trial (affiliate link) Audiobook on Apple Audiobooks Paperback or Kindle (affiliate link) Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, linktr.ee/johnlim = “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1863) I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way, The world revolved from night to day, A voice, a chime, A chant sublime Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Then from each black, accursed mouth The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on earth, good-will to men! It was as if an earthquake rent The hearth-stones of a continent, And made forlorn The households born Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And in despair I bowed my head "There is no peace on earth," I said "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep The Wrong shall fail, The Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men.The Nevers is an American science fiction drama television series created by Joss Whedon for HBO. On this holiday episode, I do a reading of "Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in 1865.
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