The drama series loosely based on Ben Dunn's early 90s manga-style comic book series Warrior Nun Areala trades the source materials' dedicated heroine, Shannon Masters, for a waif who has no interest in serving the Catholic Church after a degraded childhood in holy care, says Robyn Bahr. "Thematically, Warrior Nun is nothing you haven't seen before, and aesthetically, nothing you ever want to see again," says Bahr. "Bleak, dour and trudging, the series contains none of the kitschy, blasphemous fun of its title." Bahr adds: "Warrior Nun is another entry in the teen feminist occult fantasy genre, also populated by Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Motherland: Fort Salem and the late, great Sky One drama Hex, and each show no doubt looks upon Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mother Superior. Ultimately, however, they're all male fantasies of muscular, hot-girl matriarchy, Warrior Nun just being the first to prove that sour-faced warriors are boring no matter their gender."
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TOPICS: Warrior Nun, Netflix, Alba Baptista , Ben Dunn, Simon Barry