Warrior Nun is schlocky nuns, weapons, and demon enjoyable

It was when the stately nun grabbed a gun and proceeded to take out a room stuffed with demon-infested monks that I knew Netflix’s Warrior Nun had lastly found out what sort of present it was — and that present was entertaining as hell.

Warrior Nun, the Netflix present a couple of younger lady resurrected from the lifeless and imbued with superpowers by the halo of an angel to battle the forces of evil (sure, actually), first premiered again in 2020. That first season was advantageous. It was watchable when you’re doing laundry or taking part in a online game, however with a first half so excruciatingly slow, I wasn’t about to counsel it to pals or household. The second season premiered on November tenth and is way more positive of itself.

It feels as if one of many extra entertaining CW superhero reveals had been filmed on location in Spain and took the time to choreograph and edit actually vicious and entertaining combat scenes. That means the performing ranges from “this person could win an Oscar in 20 years” to “this person will make a career attending cons.” The characters are strolling tropes with sufficient allure to maintain you watching, and the pacing is so frenetic you’ll in all probability get aggravated that you simply by no means get to simply hang around with these nuns for a filler episode. But the breeziness with which the second season of Warrior Nun strikes via its plot is a welcome change from the primary season and makes the present a simple and enjoyable weekend binge.

But I ought to in all probability clarify what Warrior Nun is about. The title is fairly clear, however just like the present, it is not massive on nuance. Warrior Nun follows Ava (Alba Baptista), a younger lady who spent most of her life confined to a mattress in an orphanage after a automobile accident killed her mother and left her paralyzed. In season 1, a nun of the Order of the Cruciform Sword hides the halo of an angel in Ava’s corpse, which finally ends up bringing Ava again to life and giving her superpowers. As the halo and the powers often go to an OCS nun who then leads the remainder of the order of their combat towards demons, there’s loads of friction between Ava, who’s excited to be strolling and likewise, you understand, alive, and the nuns who want her to turn out to be a warrior and a frontrunner and a mature grownup as rapidly as attainable.

Season 1 (spoilers!) ended with Ava by accident liberating the unique halo bearer, Adriel (William Miller), an angel who could or could not really be a demon, and fleeing the Vatican as Adriel possesses everybody round him.

Season 2 finds Ava on the run along with her greatest buddy and crush, Beatrice (Kristina Tonteri-Young), a nun from the Order of the Cruciform Sword who is especially good in a combat. Beatrice is making an attempt to coach Ava whereas the opposite nuns plot a strategy to cease Adriel, who’s making a cult and making ready to, as soon as once more, combat the pope and the Vatican. When the mysterious new stranger Miguel (Jack Mullarkey) reveals up and provides Ava a strategy to return to the combat, she has to determine how far she’ll go and what sort of powers she will develop to guide the struggle towards Adriel.

The present is shot in Spain, and it clearly reveals. There are automobile chases on slender cobblestone streets, fights in centuries-old castles and chapels, and breathtaking mountain views simply randomly function the backdrop for informal conversations. While nearly all of the present is in English, the characters by no means hesitate to talk Spanish, Italian, and even German when it is sensible. It all makes the present really feel a bit of fancier than The CW and SyFy honest it’d in any other case really feel just like.

But together with feeling fancier due to the locale, Warrior Nun simply appears to be like good. Care appears to have been taken to mild this present, and the motion scenes are virtually all the time impeccably shot and edited. It feels far more excessive price range than I might assume a schlocky present about nuns who combat demons would have.

After greater than a decade of most fantasy reveals like Warrior Nun being shot in Vancouver and stuffed with tons of recognizable Canadian actors, it is good to have one stuffed with actors I’m extra used to seeing in European artwork home movies. It makes the present really feel recent and totally different. And that implies that when the motion does get away and nuns begin doing fancy choreographed stunts and wirework, every part feels just a bit extra goofy and thrilling.

I’ll warn you, the second season of Warrior Nun ends on a cliffhanger, and there’s no phrase on if Netflix will renew the present for a 3rd season. But in the event you’re searching for an entertaining weekend diversion, or have to take a break from God of War Ragnarök, Warrior Nun is a superb selection.

Warrior Nun is streaming on Netflix.