Resident Evil fans rage horror series is ‘so bad it should be REMOVED by Netflix’
NETFLIX viewers brand horror series Resident Evil “disgusting” and say it should be “removed” a week after it dropped on the streaming service.
The action horror series, which dropped on Netflix last week, is an adaptation of the video game franchise of the same name.
Resident Evil stars The Wire’s Lance Reddick as Albert Walker, alongside Charlie’s Angels star Ella Balinska who plays his daughter Jade. Riverdale’s Adeline Rudolph plays his other daughter Billie.
The series depicts the girls in multiple timelines, so The Worst Witch actor Tamara Smart plays the younger version of Jade, and F9’s Siena Agudong plays younger Billie.
Unfortunately, the highly anticipated series has not been well received by horror fans.
“#ResidentEvil dahell is this… Couldn’t watch more than 15 min of it. Who watched it and decided to put it out. Everything about it was whack. Kind of disappointing. Just remove it and pretend it didn’t happen,” one viewer said.
Another was so unimpressed by the series that they also suggested Netflix just cut their losses.
“That Resident Evil series is just so awful. They should just remove it from Netflix,” they said.
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“Netflix resident evil reboot. no. just no,” another viewer said alongside a crying face.
Another wrote: “The shows dropped in quality. Resident Evil is actually disgusting and embarrassing.”
Several viewers made it through all eight episodes, but were left disappointed by the ending. “Just finished the new Resident Evil. Can someone please explain the point of it or what actually happened,” one said.
Another viewer commented: “I didn’t hate it but whose it for? Were Resident Evil fans really clamouring for a coming of age story featuring Gen Z? Probably not.”
Netflix’s Resident Evil was developed by Andrew Dabb, who’s previously worked on the American dark fantasy series Supernatural.
He told Bloody Disgusting that his vision for the series meant not directly following in the footsteps of the video games franchise or pulling too much from the film adaptations which have come before.
Instead, he explained to the outlet that he wanted to create a character-driven story and add in other elements as necessary.
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He explained what this meant in terms of the monsters, saying: “It was, ‘Okay. Here our characters are; here’s where the journey has taken them. They’re in this long, dark tunnel. What’s something creepy to put in that long, dark tunnel?’”
All eight episodes of Resident Evil are streaming on Netflix now.
