Actress Olivia Williams (1968)

The Nevers is an American science fiction drama television series created by Joss Whedon for HBO. The series is produced by HBO and Mutant Enemy Productions with executive producers including Whedon, Philippa Goslett, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson, Ilene S. Landress and Bernadette Caulfield. The series premiered on April 11, 2021. The ...

Howard Silk, a gentle, quiet office worker, has been working for a Berlin-based United Nations agency, the Office of Interchange (OI), for thirty years. His position is too low for him to be told what his work—exchanging apparently nonsensical messages—really involves. The OI oversees a checkpoint below its headquarters between parallel Earths (the “Alpha” and “Prime” worlds). The parallel Earths were created in 1987 during an experiment by East Germany when only a scientist named Yanek was on-site. The “Alpha world” Yanek met his “Prime world” counterpart, and they soon began studying how the initially identical Earths diverge.

John “Breacher” Wharton is the leader of the DEA’s Special Operations Team (DEA SOT), which consists of James “Monster” Murray, Monster’s wife Lizzy Murray, Joe “Grinder” Philips, Julius “Sugar” Edmonds, Eddie “Neck” Jordan, Tom “Pyro” Roberts, Bryce “Tripod” McNeely and “Smoke” Jennings. During a raid on a cartel warehouse, Smoke is killed, the team steals $10 million and hides it in the sewer while blowing up the rest to cover their tracks. The money disappears, and their superior Floyd Demel suspends them while the DEA investigates the team for the theft. After several months ...

In the Russian Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed “Dolly”, banishes her unfaithful husband Prince Stephan “Stiva” Oblonsky. Stiva’s sister, Anna Karenina, a socialite living in Saint Petersburg with her older husband Count Alexei Karenin, and son Seryozha, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive her brother. Stiva meets old friend Konstantin Levin, a landowning aristocrat despised by Moscow’s elite for preferring the countryside to city life. Levin says he loves Stiva’s sister-in-law, Princess Kitty, and Stiva encourages him to propose. Kitty declines as she hopes to marry Count Alexei Vronsky, a wealthy officer. Levin meets his ...

Tessa is seventeen with terminal acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Aided by her best friend Zoey, she fulfills an undisclosed bucket list before her impending death. One night, both attempt to engage in sex with two boys they pick up in a club. Tessa goes on a radio talk show with her overbearing single father, where she pokes fun at her terminal diagnosis and approaches it with humour. Tessa is loving and caring towards her brother Cal, towards whom she feels guilty for stealing her parents’ attention, and gives him days that are all about him while dealing with her father trying to treasure every moment with his daughter, while her mother is supportive, but is rarely there for ...

Hanna Heller is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, Erik, in rural northern Finland. Since the age of two, Hanna has been trained by him, an ex-CIA operative from Germany, to be a skilled assassin. He teaches her hand-to-hand combat and drills her in target shooting. Erik knows a secret that cannot become public and Marissa Wiegler, a senior CIA officer, seeks to eliminate him. Erik has trained Hanna with the intent to kill Marissa. One night, she tells him she is “ready” to face their enemies. Erik digs up a radio beacon that will alert the CIA to their presence. Although he warns Hanna that a confrontation with Marissa will be fatal for either her or ...

Bill is paroled after serving an eight year prison sentence for drug related offenses. Returning to his home in East London Bill finds his two sons, 15-year-old Dean and 11-year-old Jimmy abandoned by their mother, Dean having dropped out of school to work and take care of Jimmy on his own. Dean makes it clear to Bill that he is not welcome in either his or Jimmy’s lives. Bill’s former criminal associates Dickie and Terry offer Bill some drug dealing. Bill is on license and refuses, not wanting to return to prison. Bill instead intends to go to Scotland and work on the oil rigs. During a parole meeting Bill finds out that his sons, under aged and without a legal guardian ...

The story follows Echo, a “doll” or “Active” for the Los Angeles “Dollhouse”, one of several facilities, called “Houses”, run by a company which hires out human beings to wealthy clients. These “engagements” range from romantic interludes to high-risk criminal enterprises. Each Active has their original memories wiped and exists in a childlike blank state until programmed via the insertion of new memories and personalities for each mission. Actives such as Echo are ostensibly volunteers who have surrendered their minds and bodies to the organization for five-year stints, during which their original personalities are saved on ...

In 1904 in the nursery of the Darling household, located in central London, Wendy Darling tells her younger brothers John and Michael stories of Captain Hook and his pirates. Unbeknownst to the children, Peter Pan listens to Wendy’s stories from outside their nursery window. When their Aunt Millicent arrives, she judges Wendy to be an “almost” full-grown woman and advises the Darlings to focus on Wendy’s future prospects. Aunt Millicent also points out that Wendy possesses a “hidden kiss”, an intangible feature of womanhood that Mrs. Darling also possesses. Peter returns to the nursery one night to watch Wendy while she sleeps, but he is chased off ...

Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returns home with his wife, Anna, after having been honored for his work. A young man breaks into their house and accuses Malcolm of failing him. Malcolm recognizes him as Vincent Grey, a former patient he treated as a child for hallucinations. Vincent shoots Malcolm and then kills himself. Months later, where it is presumed that Malcolm survives the shooting, he begins working with Cole Sear, a 9-year-old boy who reminds him of Vincent. Malcolm feels he must help him in order to rectify his failure and reconcile with his wife, who has become distant and cold. Cole’s mother Lynn worries about his social skills, especially ...

Max Fischer is an eccentric, 15-year old scholarship student at the prestigious Rushmore Academy in Houston. Although he participates extensively in extracurricular activities, he struggles academically. The school’s headmaster, Dr. Guggenheim, warns Max that if he continues to struggle with his grades, he will be expelled. At a school assembly, Max meets Herman Blume, a disillusioned parent and businessman who despises his children. Herman befriends Max and takes him under his wing. Upon reading a written message left in a book he read in the library, Max tracks down the book’s previous borrower, Rosemary Cross, a widowed first-grade teacher at Rushmore, and soon develops ...

In 2013, an unnamed nomad enters the Utah flatlands, trading Shakespearean performances for food and water. In one of the towns, the nomad is forced into the ranks of the Holnists, the predominant neo-fascist militia and branded on his shoulder with their symbol, a figure 8. The Holnists, under their leader, General Bethlehem, are the de facto authority in the area, collecting tribute and recruits from local towns. When the nomad escapes, he takes refuge in a long-deceased postman’s mail vehicle. With the postman’s uniform and mail bag, he arrives in Pineview claiming to be from the newly restored US government. He convinces town sheriff ...