Everything Wrong With Netflix's Resident Evil Series
As one of the most successful video game franchises of all time and the progenitor of the survival horror genre, Resident Evil has always been ripe for movie and television adaptations. Over the years there has been no shortage of attempts to adapt the series, with a slew of films starring Mila Jovovich becoming cult favorites but not held in especially high regard with die-hard game fans.
Since the return of the franchise to form with the seventh and eighth games, there has been a renewed interest in creating cinematic adaptations with Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City being the most recent feature outing in 2021. Now in 2022, Netflix has released its new Resident Evil television show which is making waves with fans for all the wrong reasons. So, what went wrong with the newest depiction of Umbrella's T-virus saga?
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The last 18 months have been bountiful for Resident Evil fans. The eighth installment in the video game series, Resident Evil: Village was released complete with a new fan favorite and meme-worthy character Lady Dimitrescu, and it was also revealed that not only was there a movie on the way seemingly based on the first and second games, but Netflix was also producing a series based on the origins of the T-virus and the Umbrella Corporation's evil machinations.
The movie came and went with mediocre reviews, but at least contained some iconic locations, a fun 90s aesthetic approach, and the characters fans know and love. Expectations for the Netflix series only grew as the release date neared, with audiences excited to get a longer form series that would give room to fully explore the story of the early games. Instead, what
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