Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 1 of “Warrior Nun,” streaming now on Netflix.
There’s a ton of mythology to unpack over the first 10 episodes of Netflix’s female-centric “Warrior Nun,” from a magical angel halo and demonic presences to a young quadriplegic woman named Ava (Alba Baptista) who is brought back from the dead. Add in religion, politics, complex friendships, and a tech-savvy enemy in the form of Jillian Salvius (Thekla Reuten), and creator Simon Barry had his work cut out for him.
“There’s this double-edge opportunity with religion when it comes to storytelling, especially with shows like this that deal with genre and supernatural elements, because religion is an amazing backstop for mythology,” Barry tells Variety. “It’s a mythology that everybody knows — I don’t have to educate the audience on the stakes of demons, and angels in heaven, and hell,...
There’s a ton of mythology to unpack over the first 10 episodes of Netflix’s female-centric “Warrior Nun,” from a magical angel halo and demonic presences to a young quadriplegic woman named Ava (Alba Baptista) who is brought back from the dead. Add in religion, politics, complex friendships, and a tech-savvy enemy in the form of Jillian Salvius (Thekla Reuten), and creator Simon Barry had his work cut out for him.
“There’s this double-edge opportunity with religion when it comes to storytelling, especially with shows like this that deal with genre and supernatural elements, because religion is an amazing backstop for mythology,” Barry tells Variety. “It’s a mythology that everybody knows — I don’t have to educate the audience on the stakes of demons, and angels in heaven, and hell,...
- 7/15/2020
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
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