‘Resident Evil’ at Netflix is Canceled After 1 Season

(CTN News) – The live-action ” Resident Evil” series on Netflix has been canceled for one season due to low ratings.

On July 14, Netflix premiered the first season of eight episodes. The show was originally ordered to series by Netflix in 2020.

Rotten Tomatoes awarded the series a 55% approval rating and an audience approval rating of 27%.

Resident Evil series.

In the weekly Netflix Top 10 rankings, “Resident Evil” was streamed for over 72 million hours the week it debuted, making it the second most-watched program behind only “Stranger Things” Season 4.

By its third week, it had slipped out of the top 10 and fell to number three.

In this show, Jade Wesker (Ella Balinska) fights to survive in a world overrun by blood-thirsty infected and mind-shattering creatures.

Jade is haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, her father Albert’s (Lance Reddick) chilling connections to the sinister Umbrella Corporation, and most of all what happened to her sister Billie (Siena Agudong).

There were also Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gosatti, Tamara Smart, Adeline Rudolph, Paola Nuez, and Turlough Convery in the cast.

Executive producer and showrunner Andrew Dabb developed the series for television. It was written and produced by Mary Leah Sutton.

Producers were Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film.

The first “Resident Evil” game was released in 1996. Since then, more than 100 million copies of the game have been sold worldwide.

Moreover, the franchise has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide through animated films, comic books, novels, and theme parks.

Initially, the news of the cancellation was reported by Deadline.

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