news culture Resident Evil: Netflix shortens the suffering of its series
It’s official: The Netflix series Resident Evil has been canceled after just one short season. A number of factors, including the program’s low viewership ratings, led to the streaming giant abandoning the project altogether.
One season and then it’s gone
It is official : Netflix is canceling its Resident Evil series after one season. The information reported by meeting, comes just a month and a half after the eight episodes were released on the streaming platform. Released on July 14th, the program will have achieved quite respectable results in its first week with 72.7 million viewing hours. Nonetheless, it quickly went downhill in week two as it hit 73.3 million hours, only to eventually fall out of the platform’s top 10 in week three.
This failure is justified by several factors. First of all, it is clear that the critical and public reception is anything but laudatory: With a 55% critical score and 27% audience score on RottenTomatoes, Resident Evil will not have wowed viewers at all.
The other damaging factor is undoubtedly Netflix’s poor scheduling management. With the juggernaut Stranger Things as a simultaneous neighbor, the series had a hard time doing well.
If it doesn’t want it, it doesn’t want it
The Resident Evil adaptations never really caught the public’s attention, either for the average viewer or for fans of the video game license. First and foremost, of course, we think of Paul WS Anderson’s films (six of them, after all), which shaped the spirits more through their Nanardesque aspect than through the quality of their story.
For their part, movies and animated series have undoubtedly been more successful than theatrical releases, but the fact remains that the Resident Evil saga has always struggled to stand out from generic zombie productions.
the latest movie, Welcome to Racoon Cityhardly reaches the average press page on AlloCiné, when the public gives him an average of 1.8/5. With the Netflix series debacle, producers should undoubtedly think twice before embarking on a project with the RE stamp.
However, the streaming giant’s programming had some serious tricks up its sleeve to win the hearts of fans. Following the chronology of the games, the series incorporated many references to previous events that took place in the license and incorporated most of the creatures that players had already faced. All the good will of the authors will not have been enough to save their series.
