Netflix cancels Resident Evil a month and a half after its premiere

Resident Evil series, new adaptation of the famous video game about a dystopian future plagued by hungry mutant zombieshas been canceled from Netflix and won’t have a second season.

This was reported by the American specialized media, which attribute the decision to the fact that the production, of eight episodes, He was not accompanied as expected by enough audiences on the platform.

The most curious thing is that this decision was given just a month after the premiere of the series. As detailed by the specialized site Deadline, resident Evil had a decent debutwith over 72 million hours viewed in its first week available in the catalog, but in the following weeks it did not perform according to manufacturers’ expectations.

the reviews weren’t good

This was added to the poor evaluations by both critics and the public, which ended up bringing about an abrupt end to the series. Especially in this particular moment that Netflix is ​​going through, with a loss of subscribers and the need to meet a more demanding cost-benefit criterion for the renewal of its productions. Everything came together to condemn the future of Resident Evil.

The platform was betting on the good background of the story and saw it as a new milestone in a franchise that had already garnered millions of fans with six films starring Milla Jovovich. For this reason, this relaunch of the title, this time in series format, was a strong commitment by the streaming giant.

Between two timelines, the strip created by the American Andrew Dabb followed the complicated childhoods and adolescences of the Wesker sisters, Jade and Billie, played respectively by Ella Balinska and Adeline Rudolph.

The cast is completed by Tamara Smart (in the role of the young Jade Wesker), Siena Agudong (in the role of the young Billie Wesker), Paola Núñez and Lance Reddick, among others.

The story of two twins

The protagonists were two twins born under unclear circumstances and the daughters of one of the top executives of the shadowy Umbrella Corporation, the franchise’s infamous pharmaceutical company guilty of causing the disaster by clandestinely conducting genetic experiments.

In the first timeline, the 14-year-old girls moving to New Raccoon City realize this his father may be hiding dark secrets that could destroy the world.

In the second timeline, which takes place a decade into the future, when there are only 15 million humans left, refugees who survive in walled cities to protect themselves from the dangerous environment in which there are more than 6 billion animals and people infected with the T -Virus, the plot follows Jade, now in her thirties, in her efforts to survive in this world.

The trauma the two experienced in 2022, when they had to adjust to a life full of cover-ups and secrecy in New Raccoon City, apparently have not finished convincing fans of the video game saga and of the previous films and much less to the critics who have not found anything interesting to highlight in this new production.