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Netflix canceled their favorite show. They mounted a global campaign to save it.

21 November, 2023

Hours after Simon Barry, the showrunner of "Warrior Nun," announced on December 13, 2022, that Netflix had canceled the beloved fantasy-drama after two seasons, fans began to congregate: in Discord servers, on social media, and in one fateful Twitter space.

"There were, like, 6,000 people at one time," Adrienne Place, a 42-year-old production assistant and "Warrior Nun" fan in Tennessee, said of the Twitter space. Kristina Tonteri-Young, the actor who played the fan-favorite character Beatrice, even appeared on the live-audio platform to console fans, Place recalled. "We all came together then," she said.

On its surface, "Warrior Nun" might not seem like the type of show to inspire this sort of devotion. The Netflix original — an adaptation of Ben Dunn's "Warrior Nun Areala" comics, starring Alba Baptista as Ava Silva, a young woman who's given a new lease on life through a holy artifact that links her to a group of demon-battling nuns — was fairly well received by critics but didn't get a lot of media attention.

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