One of the main reasons why campaigns to revive canceled Netflix shows need to be greeted with a certain set of expectations is down to the fact that other networks and streaming services rarely tend to pick up projects from the streaming service’s discard pile. In fact, it typically tends to work the other way around, but a recent development has left Warrior Nun fans fuming.
For those who understandably don’t remember that it even existed given the lack of impact had made on both the platform’s viewing figures and the cultural consciousness at large, Neil Patrick Harris’ comedy series Uncoupled was given the boot by Netflix six months after it had initially premiered.
However, Showtime has now stepped in to pick up the concept for a second run to breathe new life into one of Netflix’s many failed experiments, and you can only imagine how the Warrior Nun devotees reacted to their efforts going continually overlooked as a show nobody even talks about has been given a new lease of life.
Of course, there are a multitude of stark differences between a half-hour sitcom and an effects-heavy comic book adaptation drenched in action sequences and visually dazzling hand-to-hand scraps, but you can sympathize with the Warrior Nun subset regardless. They’re the ones generating buzz, hype, billboards, and awareness, but it’s the unremarkable Uncoupled that lives again, and not the single best-reviewed run of episodic content in Netflix history.
Needless to say, though, this is one fight that’s far from over.