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| What on earth are you wearing? Is winter coming or something? |
Well, the genre pretty much says it all. As a superhero series, the plot isn't the strong part and the character development feels quite lacking: many of the character's actions feel unprovoked and random, there's a serious plot hole in the second season as to what is the real relationship between human religion, especially the Christian one, and this "other realm" from which supervillains come from.
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| Yes, it's based on a comic book, are you surprised? Though, no revealing outfits, I'm afraid. |
The main character, in particular, Ava, is definitively the worst one: utterly whimsical and personality-lacking. Sometimes she has a problem with authority, some times she doesn't. Sometimes the church is her family, sometimes she dumps them for some random dude. Sometimes being the "warrior nun" (still getting over that) is the calling of her life, sometimes she just wants to "live her life", whatever that means. Sometimes she's selfish, sometimes she wants to play martyr to save humankind.
The action scenes, the "forte" of the series, is weird since the scenes had been modified by computer and the tactical nun's moves are sped up, and the enemy faction lacks a technique altogether. Not to mention that the nuns are occasionally immune to bullets and the main characters are immune to damage altogether.
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| The fifteen year old soldier employed by the church when she has to save the protagonist from a hundred mobs, alone and armed with a stick. |
This heavily lowers the quality of action scenes that barely compensate for their spendthrift budget.
Despite all this, the series are more or less watchable, with a lot of Marvel-ish action to keep the viewer from examing the, let's be honest, overexploited demons vs nuns plot too close. Personal bias: I hate Spain, I hated that the series was set in Spain and I hate every Spanish line and there's a whole bunch of them. Overall score 4/10
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