![]() ![]() Remember last week when I suggested that Maladie seems to be played by the same actress, Amy Manson, who plays the reporter, Effie Boyle? I was right, and there was a reason. Penance has some real Social Justice Warrior energy in this episode, and she - and about half the orphanage - vows to stop the execution of Maladie.Īs it turns out, however, Maladie had her own plan. Meanwhile, Penance Adair has her own agenda, namely that Her Majesty’s Government should not make an exception for its prohibition against public executions because Maladie is among The Touched. He’s determined to find his space no matter who is in charge. The Beggar King is all too happy to oblige, because his only allegiance is to money, although he has nothing against The Touched. He hires the Beggar King to help out by stirring a little commotion during the hanging so that Massen will have something to quash. Massen needs to rob them of hope, which is why he had Mary Brighton killed in the first place. Ribbons and certifications aren’t enough. Massen wants more than an execution he wants it to turn into a riot so that Massen can continue to crack down on The Touched. Instead of a fire, however, it was a public execution of Maladie orchestrated by Lord Massen and The Patriarchy (dibs on that band name) designed to inflame tensions against The Touched. Cousens (with bonus sex scenes), Amalia and Penance, Lavinia and Augie), but honestly, let’s just call this week’s episode what it was: Joss Whedon’s The Reichstag fire. ET/PT on HBO.I feel like I could write a 1500-word recap on this week’s episode of The Nevers because there was an enormous amount of idle chit-chat this week (Lord Massen with the oligarchs, Lord Massen with the Beggar King, Amalia and Dr. And the fact that many of the things she's done, from publishing a final "interview" with Maladie to the very public murder of dozens of bystanders, have only further eroded perceptions of the Touched, it could be that she's working to bring them down just as fervently as Lord Massen is.Ĭreated by Joss Whedon, The Nevers stars Laura Donnelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Ann Skelly, Ben Chaplin, Pip Torrens, Zackary Momoh, Amy Manson, Nick Frost, Rochelle Neil, Eleanor Tomlinson and Denis O’Hare. While it seems like a convenient plot contrivance that Maladie's been in custody for weeks and no one's caught on to the fact that she isn't the genuine article, in the world of The Nevers, the revelation that Maladie's able to carry out such sophisticated plans makes her even more dangerous than she originally seemed. Given how effectively Maladie has played the role of Effie, should we assume Maladie is a role she's playing as well? Whether Maladie came up with her plan to have Clara impersonate her when she murdered Effie is unclear, but regardless of when it happened, Maladie has proven she's much more of a mastermind than anyone realized. Effie's death was a means to an end, a way to give Maladie access to Mundi and other parts of society she couldn't have as herself, and a way to publish articles defending the Touched. However, she didn't treat the body in the same way she normally treated her victims. ![]() ![]() While Clara was masquerading as Maladie, Maladie was impersonating Effie Boyle, who she'd killed weeks earlier. It's this conclusion that causes everything to come together in Mundi's mind. While it didn't work, Clara apparently agreed to impersonate Maladie and get herself captured by the police, a choice that led her to sacrifice her life. In The Nevers' second episode, we learned that Clara, a member of Maladie's gang who isn't Touched, had cut off her toes as a sacrifice in the hopes it would bring on a turn. One of her shoes falls off, revealing a foot missing several toes, and Mundi realizes the body in front of him isn't Maladie's at all. After the crowd has cleared out, the authorities lift Maladie's body out of the gallows as Mundi watches. ![]()
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