Five Months Later After, ‘Warrior Nun’ Fans Won’t Give Up On Season 3

There are fandoms, and there are fandoms, and in all my years of doing this, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like Warrior Nun fans.

Warrior Nun was a series on Netflix that you may not have watched due to its odd name, but it was quite good, a fantastic YA series based on an order protecting the world from demons, and it got especially wild in season 2, ending on something of a cliffhanger. Naturally, Netflix poured over the data and deemed that it should be cancelled, and fans have never forgiven them since.

Warrior Nun was cancelled on December 12, 2022, and here in early May, I’m not sure I’ve gone a day without some sort of Warrior Nun-based trend appearing on my feed. Granted these are tailored to you personally, but it’s kept me aware of a non-stop, never-ending campaign to either get Netflix to reverse their decision or for some other network to pick up Warrior Nun, something its showrunner said he would try to work on. Now, with Hollywood thrown into chaos due to the writers strike, that may be even harder now.

The idea seems to be to have different Warrior Nun-related trends surface every day. They’re often puns that focus on specific places, Amazon, Apple, Hulu, Starz, to see if they’d pick up Warrior Nun and have the eternal devotion of the fanbase. Today there is something called the “Warrior Nun Run” where people are running outside as some sort of IRL event to bring more attention to the cause. But as ever, the main hashtag is #SaveWarriorNun, and the constant refrain fans sing. Previously, Warrior Nun fans crowdfunded a billboard to sit outside a Netflix office, asking them to save the series.

It’s a demonstrating of what lengths fans are willing to go to in the age of abrupt streaming cancellations, in which shows are often struck dead after a cliffhanger finale, their story left unfinished. Netflix has dozens of these series, many of them YA, many of them with female leads, that have been unceremoniously killed off, and in terms of overall quality, I’d argue Warrior Nun is one of the most fun series that has been executed this way.

Tactics are varied. Right now, Shadow and Bone fans are “grinding” season 2 in order to try to secure a third season for the expensive show, which did not appear to perform quite as amazingly as it needed to in the hours-watched stat, so fans are boosting it with repeated re-viewings time after time to try and get Netflix’s metrics where they need to be. Warrior Nun fans periodically have rewatch parties as well.

But the unfortunately truth is that for every #Save[InsertShow] campaign, few play out. Occasionally you’ll see a show hop services, but for a place like Netflix, it took a show like Manifest planting itself on top of Netflix’s charts for weeks to get them to see “uh yeah maybe we should spend the cash for a new season of that.” These other shows have not attracted similar results.

After five months with a writers strike active, I cannot say I have a terribly large amount of faith in Warrior Nun season 3 getting made, as much as I would like to see that happen. But if anything’s clear, fans are not going to give up, and I would not be surprised to come back in another six months and still see them hashtagging every day.

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