This is a tale of ancient times, before the human and non-human worlds were forever divided.
Here, in the land of Britannia, live a group of knights called the Holy Knights. These valiant, magical warriors protect the land from evil and from seven of their own who went off course. These stray knights are known as The Seven Deadly Sins: Escandor, Diane, Melodias, Merlin, Gowther, Ban and King.
To the commoner, The Seven Deadly Sins are the most feared, evil group ever known. After all, they’re allegedly responsible for, in one incredibly bloody massacre, slaughtering hundreds of Holy Knights who dared to stand in their path.
But are they truly guilty?
Ten years later and that horrific scene is like a distant memory to many; most people believe the Sins to be dead. But there are still some who believe that the Holy Knights framed the Sins for a coup that they themselves perpetrated; the same coup the Holy Knights used to gain complete power over the kingdom of Liones—control they still possess.
One woman, princess Elizabeth Liones, has fled the kingdom in search of The Sins. She holds on to the fading strand of hope that finding these feared knights—in particular the most powerful, Melodias—is the only way to restore order and defeat the corrupt Holy Knights once and for all.
Welcome to Netflix’s latest complex web: The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon’s Judgement. This series, which is currently in its fifth season, is the sequel series to The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods. It’s also derived from the uber-popular Japanese graphic novel of the same name.
In this world, you will not only find a hyper-detailed storyline come to life on Netflix, but you will find a world filled with humans, demons, fairies, goddesses, vampires and more.
And that makes for mountains of detail paired with piles of content. Violence is what tips this series into TV-14 territory. It’s not uncommon to see anime characters murdered or blown to smithereens. It’s also not uncommon to see some mild sexual acts and sensuality or to be introduced to characters with wide sexual preferences or divergent sexual identities.
Let’s not forget the spiritual aspect either. This is probably where it becomes most convoluted. People can be and are possessed and controlled by demons, and the rest of this fictional world is steeped in magic and monsters beyond what the beginning episodes present.
Fans of this series will surely welcome this new addition to the Seven Deadly Sins saga. But for others, the name of the series itself is an all-too-telling illustration of what you’re likely to see here.
One of the members of the Seven Deadly Sins, Melodias, disguises himself as a young pub owner. Melodias protects a mysterious young woman on the run.
Melodias wants to “check” if a young woman is in fact a female, so he grabs her breasts multiple times, both while she’s sleeping and awake. This same woman sports a leotard.
In a flashback, a group of soldiers lie scattered on the ground, dead and covered in their own blood. Soldiers threaten to kill a group of people. A talking pig attacks a few power-hungry soldiers. A man’s body is blown to pieces.
A group of men drink ale at a pub and attempt to eat the food but vomit. An elderly guard calls a young boy a “punk” a few times.
Kristin Smith joined the Plugged In team in 2017. Formerly a Spanish and English teacher, Kristin loves reading literature and eating authentic Mexican tacos. She and her husband, Eddy, love raising their children Judah and Selah. Kristin also has a deep affection for coffee, music, her dog (Cali) and cat (Aslan).
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