Netflix's Resident Evil Season 2 Could Save Itself With A Soft Reboot
Warning: SPOILERS Ahead For Netflix's Resident Evil
Netflix's Resident Evil was met with largely negative reviews, but here's why a soft reboot could save the second season. Between Netflix's Resident Evil series and seven theatrical movies, there have been many live-action attempts to bring the video game saga to life. However, outside of 2021's Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City — which adapted the first two game entries — these attempts have largely ignored the source material.
The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies centered around an original protagonist named Alice, and while various monsters and characters from the games appeared, the films went in their own direction. The same is true for Netflix's Resident Evil, which is part teen drama and part post-apocalyptic action show. While the showrunners confirmed the video games form the backstory for the show, this just translated to easter eggs and callbacks that — outside of explaining how Lance Reddick's Wesker is suddenly not dead — had little tangible connection to the games.
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The show appears to have been a success for Netflix, as it reached the top 10 in over 92 countries. That said, overall critical consensus has been poor, with both its Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb scores being quite low. Despite the hate Netflix's Resident Evil has received, in theory, the approach it took to adapting the games could have worked. The franchise has been running for over 25 years and thus has a lot of lore to pull from, so giving newcomers a clean slate to introduce them to the world of Resident Evil while also paying homage to the games is logical. Unfortunately, tonal issues, bad dialogue and
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