Review: Warrior Nun

Netflix returns to bet on the adaptations of graphic novels, Warrior Nun a live-action series based on the work of Ben Dunn that enjoyed modest success in the 90s with a story that mixed warrior nuns, sex, demons and a manipulation of the symbol religious who, at that time, sent her straight into controversy. In this review I will tell you how Warrior Nun is.

These first 10 episodes tell the story of Ava, an orphan who wakes up in a morgue to find out that she was resurrected thanks to the Halo, a celestial object that has granted her super powers. With this new opportunity, Ava must decide whether to continue with her normal life as a teenager or join The Order, a religious group that fights to save the world from the demons who are determined to end humanity.

Warrior Nun starts limping. During the first episodes the series gives the apprehension of not having a direction and has problems when managing time. It is very clear that the adaptation wants to humanize its protagonist as much as possible, but it wastes too much time on that and saturating the viewer with an overexploited theme when they explore the adolescent facet.

More than half of the series focuses on Ava's romances and sometimes the story seems to be a youth production that focuses on all the problems caused by age, between loves and heartbreaks, it ends up losing the essence of what it should count: The Order and its fight against demons. When they finally manage to focus on religious problems, more than one insurance will have already left the series.

In many productions something critical usually happens, they waste a lot of time focusing on other types of issues that, when they get to the main thing they have already lost the reason why it was interesting to see them. And in Warrior Nun that factor is not very noticeable, with complex situations that are resolved in a matter of seconds, with an Ava who is able to master her powers in a day, with strangely forced situations, with little development of secondary and tertiary characters and even with an outcome that takes so long to wait that it seems to have been cut off early.

Warrior Nun gives the impression of fearing the current Netflix, in which, if a series does not have enough success in its first season, it will very difficult to see a second. For this simple but overwhelming reason, he tries too hard to get all his cards into play to attract the viewer, but he chooses the order wrong and again mismanagement of time becomes a bad move when we discover that the most important points of the story remain. relegated to the background.

Ben Dunn's adaptation of the comic has interesting things to tell. When the tone becomes a little darker and the deformation of the symbol of religion appears, the story manages to trap us to the point of making us forget all the adolescent drama that we saw in its first chapters. The problem resurfaces when he picks up his teenage melodramas and reminds us why he didn't get much success.

For those who endured reaching the final chapter they will find something quite interesting, the series seems to finally find its way and understand that its story focuses more on nun wars than on teenagers.

Netflix decides to bet once again on adaptations, this time with a series that has everything necessary for critics to point out. During the first half Warrior Nun seems not to find his way and prefers to develop themes that are ultimately irrelevant. Although during the second part he manages to focus on and gives an ending that tempts him to give him a new chance. As I always recommend, watch the series and enjoy it. Leaving aside its mistakes, it can be a pretty good series to wait for the premiere of some other that you want to see.