“Netflix Original” has basically become its own genre no matter what the show is actually about, a tried-and-true formula beholden to the almighty algorithm that’s produced dozens of shows that are good and bad for the exact same reasons. That’s because there is a noticeable blueprint to these things that you can check off like Friends titles. The One That Does Flashbacks. The One That Ends on a Fight Scene. The One That Sidelines the Main Character and Grinds the Story to a Halt Because this 10-Episode Show Should Actually Be, Like, 8 Episodes Maximum. Such is the same for Warrior Nun, developed by Simon Barry from the Manga by Ben Dunn, a show that is both compulsively watchable and overwhelmingly familiar. When it’s good—see: when it focuses on a crew of nuns who beat more ass than a 1970s Sunday School teacher—it’s very good. But when it’s bad it’s just boring, and boring is TV’s cardinal sin.
Warrior Nun follows Ava (Alba Baptista), a quadriplegic orphan who we meet lying dead on a coroner’s slab. However, a mad series of events through the morgue leaves an ancient holy artifact, the Halo of the Angel Adriel, embedded in her back, bringing her back to life with a whole host of superpowers. After finding a newfound friendship with a crew of young criminal mansion-crashers—led by the aggressively attractive JC (Emilio Sakraya)—Ava is eventually tracked down by the Order of the Cruciform Sword, the Vatican’s society of devout women dedicated to fighting demons who have passed the Halo down from leader to leader since the Crusades. Torn between doing fun hood rat things with her friends and fulfilling an ancient heaven-sent destiny, Ava finds herself at the center of a tug-of-war between the demonic and the divine.
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