Knights, demons and a charismatic cast feature in Netflix’s answer to Buffy, let’s just hope this loopy thrill-ride isn’t cancelled after one season
Warrior Nun might be the most perfectly titled piece of television in the entire history of the world. Not because it is particularly accurate – its lead character is neither a warrior nor a nun – but because it is grabby enough to cut through the static of the
Netflix menu screen. Warrior Nun. You’d watch that, right? Of course you would.
Or maybe you would only give it a few minutes, to see if the content miraculously lived up to the title. In which case you would witness an opening scene set in an Andalucían church, where a bunch of what appear to be interdimensional space knights battle to save a mortally injured colleague. Their assailants arrive and a gunfight ensues. In the meantime, a glowing halo is dug from the back of the dying knight. They hide it in the body of a recently deceased woman, who instantly comes back to life, screaming in confusion. A smoke demon appears through a wall and grabs hold of a man. The resurrected woman hits the demon on the head with a spanner and he explodes into burning ashes. Moments later, the woman vomits on a stranger, gets hit by a truck and smashes through the wall of a sportswear shop.