This week’s Top 10 shows on Netflix – is your favorite on this list?

• Climbing almost to the very top of this week's list of the most-watched shows on Netflix is a fantastic new Netflix original, Warrior Nun.
• The series will easily appeal to fans of series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Warrior Nun focuses on a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue and becomes part of an ancient order fighting demons on Earth.
• The full list of the most-watched shows on Netflix right now comes from the streaming search engine service Reelgood.

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I have to admit, I wasn't a fan at first of the title of Warrior Nun, one of Netflix's newest and buzziest series and which is focused on a young woman who wakes up from death in a morgue to learn she has powers and is needed in an epic fight against good and evil. But after I dived in this weekend, I kind of got it straight away. The name is actually perfect, and it certainly grabs you as you're scrolling through Netflix's never-ending library of content. Indeed, the name also helps this series stand out before you've even pressed play, at which point you'll quickly start to feel like somebody here has put together a deliriously fun mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a little bit of Stranger Things to entertain you with.

I kind of agree with this Guardian reviewer, who opined that the series -- based on a 90s-era comic book by Ben Dunn -- is like a thrill ride involving our heroine who's dragooned into helping knights fight demons, even though she'd prefer less life-threatening pursuits like dancing and taking drugs. Moreover, combining as it does thematic elements from other critically acclaimed Netflix series like Sense8 and The OA, the reviewer goes on to argue that Warrior Nun "is a loopy thrill-ride of absolute hokum, but you sense that Netflix’s commissioning algorithm might have had a full-blown orgasm when it was presented with the pilot script." No surprise, Warrior Nun has garnered solid Rotten Tomatoes reviews this far (from both critics and fans), and it's also one of the most-watched shows on Netflix right now, to boot.

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