Editor’s note: The original November 2022 version of this article was lost. The Lee Daily Register rebuilt it in October 2026 from the sources cited below, and added what happened afterward. The original version described Ava as a lesbian. Neither the show nor the reporting we reviewed puts a label on Ava, so this version describes only what happens on screen.
The second season of Netflix’s “Warrior Nun” arrived on Nov. 10. One of its main threads is the bond between Ava Silva and Sister Beatrice, which began in the first season and becomes an open romance in the new episodes.
The show in brief
Simon Barry developed the series from a comic book character created by Ben Dunn. Alba Baptista plays Ava, and Kristina Tonteri-Young plays Beatrice. In Season 2, Ava and the Sister-Warriors of the OCS try to stop Adriel, an angel gathering followers in a bid to become the world’s dominant religion, TVLine reported. The cast also includes Lorena Andrea, Tristán Ulloa, Thekla Reuten, Sylvia De Fanti and William Miller.
How Ava and Beatrice got here
The groundwork was laid in the first season. In Season 1, Episode 8, Beatrice comes out to Ava in an emotional scene about self-loathing and her religious identity, and Ava urges her not to hate who she is, Paste Magazine’s Anna Govert wrote.
Season 2 returns to that moment. In Episode 4, Beatrice is caught in Adriel’s fog and sees a cruel version of Ava who throws her secret back at her, Paste noted.
The finale
The payoff comes in the season finale, “Jeremiah 29:13.” Ava decides to sacrifice herself. Before she leaves, she kisses Beatrice on the forehead and then kisses her for the first time. Later, with Ava mortally wounded, Beatrice sends her through a portal to the Other Side, and Ava says she loves Beatrice just after passing through, according to Paste.
Govert wrote that the kiss makes it canon that the two are in love, and she described their story in terms of sapphic and queer representation. For viewers asking whether “Warrior Nun” counts as an LGBTQ show, the finale is the documented answer: the series shows two women falling in love, and the season’s last episode is built around it.
What happened next
On Dec. 13, 2022, about a month after Season 2 debuted, Variety confirmed that Netflix had canceled “Warrior Nun” after two seasons. Deadline first reported the news. The season had spent three weeks in Netflix’s top 10 series list. It opened with 26.22 million hours viewed and peaked in its second week with 27.74 million.
In its first four days of eligibility, the show also debuted at No. 4 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming originals chart, TVLine reported. Barry thanked fans on Twitter for their efforts to raise awareness of the series.
In June 2023, Barry posted that the show would return. Then on Aug. 15, 2023, executive producer Dean English announced on the website warriornunsaved.com that “Warrior Nun” would come back as a trilogy of feature films, TVLine reported. English said the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes kept him from naming any writers or actors. Sources told TVLine the films would likely not land at Netflix, and where they would be released was unclear.
The Wrap reported that Barry was not involved in the film plan at that point, What’s on Netflix noted. Amy Berg, a showrunner on the series, said she had not been approached. A Vancouver company, Perfectly Productive Media, was attached to produce.
