Netflix Keeps Repeating Its Biggest Mistake, Cancels Warrior Nun
Is it another cancelled sapphic Netflix TV show we have here?
Tuesday was a bad day for Netflix 's Warrior Nun, as the show got cancelled after two seasons — something that immediately prompted a firestorm on Twitter.
According to outraged Warrior Nun fans, Netflix is "lesbophobic" and the way it cancels sapphic and female-led series shows it.
This is not the first time fans lambast Netflix for failing to promote its lesser-known projects, especially if they are focused on female couples. Most recently, the First Kill fandom was the one to pound the alarm regarding Netflix's apparent reluctance to support its sapphic projects in the way it supports big hits like Stranger Things or Wednesday.
One could argue that figures are the first thing that determines whether a show is successful or not; however, in case of Warrior Nun, the figures were just fine — even without the appropriate marketing.
Warrior Nun's showrunner Simon Barry has already vowed to "look into this" and find whether the show can be moved somewhere else. The fandom, in turn, has launched hashtag #SaveWarriorNun, which even the stars from other shows have joined — for instance, Lucifer 's Lesley-Ann Brandt.
The lack of promotion for lesser-known projects has already sparked concerns that Netflix has a marketing problem — or it simply uses such shows to check out the representation demands, and not really promote diversity.
"Netflix loves to give shows representation to fill their quota… WITHOUT promotion, and then cancel said show after one or two seasons because of "low viewership", LIKE PROMOTE YOUR SHOWS THEN??" Twitter user abnormallyadam said.
Warrior Nun has performed well with both fans and critics, with Parrot Analytics estimating that the demand for the show was 29.6 times the demand of the average TV series in the United States in the last 30 days. The show has the average audience score of 97 on Rotten Tomatoes. After two weeks of streaming, season 2 drew 27.74 million hours viewed and entered Netflix's top 10 along with the first season.