Resident Evil On Netflix Has One Of The Lowest Audience RT Scores
Netflix's Resident Evil show has one of the lowest Rotten Tomatoes audience scores out of all of the streaming service's original series. The show is the latest adaptation of Capcom's video game series, following Paul W. S. Anderson's six movies and Johannes Roberts' 2021 reboot movie, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The show, however, is set in a different universe than the movies and the games, although a few of the games' plotlines serve as the backdrop for the new story. Ella Balinska and Adeline Rudolph lead Netflix's Resident Evil as Jade and Billie Wesker, adoptive daughters of Lance Reddick's Albert Wesker.
After a creative marketing campaign that included Resident Evil monsters jumping out of 3D billboards, the new show debuted on Netflix on July 14, 2022. Critics' reactions to the series were mixed. Although there was some praise for the show's faithfulness to the video games, the narrative inconsistencies, lack of inventiveness, uninspired writing, sluggish pacing, and YA cliches were lambasted. It seems the casual viewers aren't a big fan of Netflix's Resident Evil either.
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The audience score for the Resident Evil TV show is out on Rotten Tomatoes and it is one of the lowest for any Netflix original. The audience score currently sits at a devastatingly low 23%, even lower than the series' critical rating of 53%. It's hard to find a show that has achieved lower in the particular metric. One comparable show is the panned animated miniseries Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, but even thatmanaged to attain 39% in audience score.
Although RT's audience score is not the most reliable measure, considering anyone can assign a rating regardless of
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