The Serie “Resident Evil”a new adaptation of the famous video game about a dystopian future plagued by hungry mutant zombies, was canceled by Netflix and will not have a second season.
This was reported by specialized American media, which attribute the decision to the fact that the production of eight episodes was not accompanied by enough public on the platform.
The motives
As detailed by Deadline, the proposal had an acceptable debut, with more than 72 million hours viewed in its first week available in the catalog, but in the following weeks did not work as expected.
That, added to the bad grades both critics and audiences and the moment 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, sentenced the future of “Resident Evil”.
As a new milestone within a franchise that had already gathered millions of fans with six films starring Milla Jovovich, this relaunch of the title in series format It was a strong bet from the streaming giant.
The Serie
Between two timelines, the strip created by the American Andrew Dabb followed the complicated childhoods and adolescences of Jade (Ella Balinska) and Billie Wesker (Adeline Rudolph), two twins born in unclear circumstances and daughters of one of the highest executives of the shadowy Umbrella Corporation, the franchise’s notorious pharmaceutical company guilty of causing the disaster by clandestinely conducting genetic experiments.
The traumas experienced by the duo in 2022, when they had to adapt to a life full of concealments and secrets in the New Raccoon City, remain in Jade fourteen years later, in 2036, when Humanity was reduced to only 300 million refugees who survive. in walled cities to protect themselves from the dangerous context.
