Warrior Nun cancelled after two seasons on Netflix

Netflix announced there was going to be a second season of their show Warrior Nun in a fun way, letting series creator / executive producer / showrunner Simon Barry break the news to cast members Alba Baptista, Toya Turner, Lorena Andrea, Kristina Tonteri-Young, and Olivia Delcan in a video that was shared on Twitter. Sadly, they won’t be replicating that scenario for a season 3 announcement. One month after Warrior Nun season 2 reached the streaming service, Netflix has confirmed that they will not be ordering another season of the show. Warrior Nun has been cancelled.

A live-action series loosely based on Ben Dunn’s manga-style comic book Warrior Nun Areala, Warrior Nun starred Baptista as Ava, a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.

Turner played Shotgun Mary, “a woman loyal to the sisterhood more than the Church”; Andrea was Sister Lilith, “a legacy Nun who is committed to her beliefs, which causes her to overstep and over-reach in her entitlement”; Tonteri-Young played Young Sister Beatrice, “a powerful Sister Warrior and the team’s resident strategist”; and Delcan’s character was Sister Camila, whose “special skill is computers”. Also in the cast were Tristan Ulloa as Father Vincent, “the spiritual and strategic leader of the Order of the Cruciform Sword”; Thekla Reuten as Jillian Salvius, “CEO of a tech startup who has challenged the Vatican’s power directly by making a discovery that could make religion obsolete”; and Emilio Sakraya as JC, “the charismatic leader of a group of alluring petty criminals”.

Netflix cancelled Warrior Nun because the viewership wasn’t large enough. As Deadline reported, “Warrior Nun season 2 spent just three weeks in Netflix’s Weekly Top 10 for English-language series, peaking at #5.” Those aren’t the kind of numbers the streamer was looking for.

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