The Trailer for HBO's Victorian Fantasy Series 'The Nevers' is Here

HBO released a trailer for its upcoming Victorian fantasy drama The Nevers, an inventive series that feels like a period piece crossed with a superhero story.

Set in the last years of Victoria’s reign, as London is beset by the “Touched”: people, mostly women, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities — some charming, some very disturbing.

Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces – to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.

None of the promotional materials really identify precisely what the Touched are, per se, but their abnormal abilities certainly feel very...well, let's just say mutant-esque.

The series comes to us from the mind of Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon - though he stepped away from the day-to-day of the project back in November, citing personal exhaustion - and stars Outlander's Laura Donnelly and Red Rock's Ann Skelly in its lead roles.

Philippa Goslett will serve as the new showrunner, while Whedon, Bernadette Caulfield, Ilene S. Landress, Doug Petrie, and Jane Espenson are executive producers.

Watch the teaser trailer for the series below.