![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of season 1, Nimue was knee-deep in fighting off the Red Paladins, a religious group who wanted to eradicate the Fey. While the fantasy series ended without resolving Nimue’s arc, the book adaptation by Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller reveals what happened next to the Arthurian heroine.Ĭursed reimagined the legendary story of King Arthur through the eyes of Nimue, a Fey with great power and someone who was destined to become the Lady of the Lake, who ultimately bestows Arthur with Excalibur. A year after the first season was released, Netflix quietly cancelled Cursed. Cursedseason 1 ended on a cliffhanger that saw Nimue falling into the depths of a lake, but there’s a bit more to her story the series leaves out that is in the book. ![]()
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