Netflix’s Cancelled ‘Warrior Nun’ Gets Resurrected After An Endless Fan Campaign

They did it. They actually did it. After seven months and roughly a thousand different Twitter hashtags, late last night, Warrior Nun showrunner Simon Barry announced that Warrior Nun will indeed return for a third season after Netflix unceremoniously cancelled it after two.

Barry was light on details, as in we have no idea where Warrior Nun will reappear, but he credited the “combined voices, passion and amazing efforts” of the Warrior Nun fanbase, who have devoted themselves to an almost fanatical campaign to bring the show back to life. And it worked.

I very much doubt that Netflix itself has picked up the show again, as that seems like it probably would have been part of the announcement, and my guess is that it got shopped elsewhere so someone could eat Netflix’s lunch and earn the devotion of the fanbase. There were countless campaigns pitching the show to every single streaming service out there, and one of them clearly bit in the end. HBO Max? Amazon? Hulu? Paramount Plus? Peacock? No clue yet, but it seems like Barry will elaborate more soon.

Warrior Nun tells the story of a girl given angelic powers to fight forces of evil, alongside a coven of uh, warrior nuns in a show that is far less goofy than the title suggests. It’s a really great series with some excellent action choreography and great character work. Recently, it’s come out that Netflix suppressed a romance between the two lead women for some reason, but my guess is wherever Warrior Nun reappears, they probably won’t care and that will get to be explored further.

I am also wondering if this means Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2 will leave Netflix and be transferred to the new location. This kind of thing really does not happen often. Netflix itself has saved some cancelled shows after similar fan campaigns, Lucifer and Manifest come to mind most noticeably, but those were saved from other places. But Netflix’s string of cancellations of good series has led to a tiny number being picked up elsewhere. Tuca and Bertie. Uncoupled. Again, it’s rarity.

The fan campaign to save Warrior Nun has been wild. They bought billboards across from Netflix HQ. They came up with charts showing viewership demand trying to prove Netflix made the wrong call. They made up new hashtags to get the series trending in some capacity essentially every day since cancellation. I’ve seen a lot of campaigns like this in my time covering the industry, but I have a hard time remembering one quite like this. And it…worked. I honestly can’t believe it.

Hopefully we learn more soon, but congratulations to everyone involved, and I hope everything goes smoothly from here.

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