Are the nuns suppose to be the good guys in this series? With some kind of 'feminist sisterhood' theme in mind, honoring their convent and their 'holy mother' (it seems more like a nature goddess of some sort than the virgin Mary) against the patriarchal catholic church (represented by the priest)? That was my first impression.
At first I can sort of accept their strange customs, for example the sheep slaughtering and using its blood in som kind of perverted eucharistic meal. The convent have been without contact with the church for a long time and therefore probably have developed its own strange theology, for example the belief that lambs that are born are reincarnated religious sisters.
But as the series move on it becomes clear that the nuns are total psychos who seems to find new cruel methods by each day to keep the priest from returning to the mainland and report about their convent. In a rage, after the youngest nun puts her hand on him (he's tied down), he blames women (and specifically the nuns) for being 'cause of sin'. It's classic Christian theology about the sinfulness of women. Not very nice.
BUT WTF, COULD YOU BLAME HIM!? He's being restrained, abused, getting his hair cut of, tied down to the ground in a cruxifiction-like position by the nuns!
The nuns find out that the plans are to build a fancy hotel complex on the island (but preserving the convent ruins as a special hotel experience). And the nuns become obsessed with preserving their weird semi-christian monastic lives in the dilapitated ruins.
The priest is no saint either. But these nuns doesn't know anything about that. They are just crazy psychopaths, and probably schizofrenic too because the 'see' tings and hear voices. And they are so bound to their vows to stay in their convent that they cannot even take the priest to the hospital after the youngest nun tries to kill him. Since when does a nun consider such vows to be more holy than saving a human life!?
In the end it turns out that it's the other priests and clerics that are the real scums of the series. Of course it is the men who are the bad guys after all. The nuns learn that the priest they are holding captive is actually a pretty decent guy (but first he has to 'become a sister', one of them and his even called 'my daughter' by one of the elderly nuns). The priest starts to like the nuns aswell though. The priest and the youngest nun even have some makeup sex in the end. Lovey-dovey.
The only really sane people in the series is the priest's sister who tries her best to find him when he goes missing, and the policeman helping her.
The series is utter NONSENSE! It was hard to care about any of the characters. Almost everyone seems crazy, depressed, selfish, confused and ignorant.
Personally I'd much rather see a nice hotel with a fantastic convent ruin at that beautiful island than preserving some odd, blood-drinking religious order. The nuns could just have moved some place else (as they were offered when the priest first arrived to the convent). But then, it would've been hard for them to sacrifice sheeps and drink their blood in some other 'normal' convent. Idiots.
At first I can sort of accept their strange customs, for example the sheep slaughtering and using its blood in som kind of perverted eucharistic meal. The convent have been without contact with the church for a long time and therefore probably have developed its own strange theology, for example the belief that lambs that are born are reincarnated religious sisters.
But as the series move on it becomes clear that the nuns are total psychos who seems to find new cruel methods by each day to keep the priest from returning to the mainland and report about their convent. In a rage, after the youngest nun puts her hand on him (he's tied down), he blames women (and specifically the nuns) for being 'cause of sin'. It's classic Christian theology about the sinfulness of women. Not very nice.
BUT WTF, COULD YOU BLAME HIM!? He's being restrained, abused, getting his hair cut of, tied down to the ground in a cruxifiction-like position by the nuns!
The nuns find out that the plans are to build a fancy hotel complex on the island (but preserving the convent ruins as a special hotel experience). And the nuns become obsessed with preserving their weird semi-christian monastic lives in the dilapitated ruins.
The priest is no saint either. But these nuns doesn't know anything about that. They are just crazy psychopaths, and probably schizofrenic too because the 'see' tings and hear voices. And they are so bound to their vows to stay in their convent that they cannot even take the priest to the hospital after the youngest nun tries to kill him. Since when does a nun consider such vows to be more holy than saving a human life!?
In the end it turns out that it's the other priests and clerics that are the real scums of the series. Of course it is the men who are the bad guys after all. The nuns learn that the priest they are holding captive is actually a pretty decent guy (but first he has to 'become a sister', one of them and his even called 'my daughter' by one of the elderly nuns). The priest starts to like the nuns aswell though. The priest and the youngest nun even have some makeup sex in the end. Lovey-dovey.
The only really sane people in the series is the priest's sister who tries her best to find him when he goes missing, and the policeman helping her.
The series is utter NONSENSE! It was hard to care about any of the characters. Almost everyone seems crazy, depressed, selfish, confused and ignorant.
Personally I'd much rather see a nice hotel with a fantastic convent ruin at that beautiful island than preserving some odd, blood-drinking religious order. The nuns could just have moved some place else (as they were offered when the priest first arrived to the convent). But then, it would've been hard for them to sacrifice sheeps and drink their blood in some other 'normal' convent. Idiots.