The Nevers (1×02) Exposure Review

For our review of the last episode of The Nevers, click here.

Synopsis: With the city reeling from Maladie’s opera debut, Mundi takes a personal stake in tracking her down, while Amalia launches an investigation of her own. Meanwhile, the charitable Lavinia Bidlow seeks to destigmatize the Touched at a society event, Hugo Swann enlists Lavinia’s younger brother Augie to help monetize his illicit enterprise, and a deranged doctor conducts a series of experiments. (HBO)

With forces coming for the touched on all sides, a war is on the horizon. While there is certainly still more to this story, all the players on both sides of that war are starting to come to the surface, including a few who cannot exactly be trusted. It seems like Maladie is merely a distraction from what is truly happening rather than the enemy though it’s easy to see it that way.

Exposure started with a young touched woman losing control of her ability of levitating objects and attracting attention from unwanted forces of Dr. Edmund Hague (Dennis O’Hare). Meanwhile, Mundi brought a warrant to the orphanage. His relationship with True evolved here, making for a fun dynamic.

Lord Massen (Pip Torrens) and the remainder of the patriarchy continued their behind-the-scenes plotting to take charged of the touched situation while Hugo Swann (James Norton) delighted in ruffling their feathers, opening his new club with the help of Lavinia Bidlow’s younger brother Augie (Tom Riley) whom her pursued as a business partner.

Lavinia devised an event at her estate to present some of the touched to the other elite to present them in a more favorable light. Pictures were taken with them while some showed off their abilities. Meanwhile, Augie developed a fascination with Adair. However, being touched and also Irish worried Lavinia who warned her brother against pursuing a relationship, On her way back to the orphanage, Adair was captured.

True got a visitor from a touched woman named Desirée Blodgett (Ella Smith) whose ability was to elicit the truth from others once they’re emotional. Suffice it to say True took her to see Mundi to get information on the Maladie case (she saw herself in a future confrontation with her). The woman she took, Mary Brighton (Eleanor Tomlinson), was also Mundi’s ex-fiancee. Mary’s ability was that she could sing a song that only the touched can hear to give them hope. This ability meant a lot to Maladie if only to make sense of her pain.

Finding what she needed, True found where Maladie was hiding. Maladie expected her. Nevertheless, True put a beatdown on her but it made no difference once again. Looking for Mary, Maladie forced her to choose between Mary and Adair (True and Maladie were friends in a former life and since became estranged). True made a different choice, shooting herself instead, knowing she can be healed if tended to quickly and she was by Dr. Horatio Cousens (Zackary Momoh) after Mundi came with the police. Mundi got his closure as Mary thought best to live at True’s orphanage.

Hague experimented on his latest captive, looking for a spark. Working with Lavinia, his captives appeared to be working on excavating the alien ship responsible for creating the touched. To her, it was war which brings up the question of which side she is really on. It appears that the season is leading to the moment where that ship will rise again but will it be for good or evil and what are Lavinia and Hague’s plans for it?

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.