Warrior Nun: Review no spoiler of the Netflix original fantasy series

Warrior nuns and demons in the fight between Good and Evil

Plot:

Warior Nun tells the story of Ava who receives a new chance at life. The young woman wakes up in a morgue with a divine artifact embedded in her back that gives her superpowers, and she thus discovers that she is part of a secret group of demon-hunting nuns.

Cast:

• Alba Baptista as Ava
• Kristina Tonteri-Young as Sister Beatrice
• Lorena Andrea as Sister Lilith
• Tristán Ulloa as Father Vincent
• Thekla Reuten as Jillian Salvius
• Olivia Delcán as Sister Camila
• Sylvia De Fanti as Mother Superion
• Peter De Jersey as Kristian Schaefer
• Joaquim de Almeida as Cardinal Duretti
• William Miller as Adriel
• Toya Turner as Shotgun Mary
• Meena Rayann as Yasmine Amunet
• Jack Mullarkey as Miguel
• Lope Haydn Evans as Michael

Episodes:

The episodes of the first season are 10. the second season is composed of 8 episodes Created by Simon Barry. Each episode bears the title of a Bible verse.

Thoughts:

The first season starts with introducing of Ava. While on vacation in Spain, Ava and her mother are involved in a serious car accident. The woman does not make it, while Ava survives but finds herself a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. The young woman has spent her entire existence confined to her bed in an orphanage run by nuns when she dies under mysterious circumstances; official reports speak of suicide. Her body is transported to a morgue located in the basement of a church where, shortly a group of fighting nuns, belonging “to the Order of the Cruciform Sword”, raids the church carrying one of the wounded Sisters, Warrior Sister Shannon; attacked by mercenaries, a sister decides to extract the halo from Shannon and seeing Ava lying down decides to insert the halo into her back to keep it safe. But the girl, quite unexpectedly, awakens and miraculously regains full control of her body. For Ava begins a new life whose goal is to have all the experiences heretofore precluded. While for the Order of the Cruciform Sword, the goal is to find the halo and Ava.

Ava embarks on a journey of growth, overcoming her own limitations and her fears, to arrive at greater awareness, to trust in others. A journey toward maturity and a new attitude toward life.

The starting point from which Warrior Nun develops is definitely interesting and intriguing.

Simon Barry’s series, from the point of view of narrative focus, takes a different path than Ben Dunn’s comic book. There the fantasy part was predominant, while in Warrior Nun it also leaves room for the story and characterization of the protagonist.

In the eight chapters of the second season we go to discover the outcomes of the final twist of the first season, but not before we find out where the protagonist and the sisters have gone to find refuge. After a jump that takes us temporally distant from where we left them, we find Ava and Beatrice undercover in an unidentified location in Switzerland.

From here, with a back and forth of the hands of the clock, we find the answers to the questions left unanswered, revealing what fate the chosen one and the sister strugglers have gone to.

In Warrior Nun’s second season of armed and bare-knuckle fights there are many, most of them spectacular and well-choreographed, raising the bar from those of the first season. Net of VFX that sometimes throws a tantrum, lowering the visual quality of the action scenes, there is no shortage of adrenaline. In fact, the duels and group fights are the most successful ingredient of the second season, on the narrative and dramaturgical level, it repeats those chronic originality and structural shortcomings that had already presented themselves in the second half of the first season; Some events entertain but do not fully engage in emotional terms.

Despite some aspects the series is nice and if nothing else original, you don’t see nuns fighting every day.

Netflix canceled the series, we just have to hope someone else will save it to see how this story will end.

Duration per episode: 37–52 minutes

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