It's game over for Netflix's 'Resident Evil' TV series, which has been canceled after one season.
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Netflix cancels Resident Evil after one season
The show premiered on July 14.
By
Devan CogganAugust 26, 2022 at 06:01 PM EDT
It's game over for Netflix's
Resident Evil TV series.
EW has confirmed that Netflix has chosen not to order a second season of the horror show, which is
set in the same world as the popular video games. The cancellation comes a little over a month after the show's premiere on July 14.
Showrunner
Andrew Dabb (
Supernatural) created the eight-episode series, which picks up in 2036, 14 years after a dangerous virus spread across the globe and turned its infected into zombified monsters. The show focuses on Jade Wesker (played by
Ella Balinska as an adult and Tamara Smart as a teenager), as she fights to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Lance Reddick also stars as her father Albert Wesker, with Siena Agudong as her sister Billie. The cast also includes Adeline Rudolph, Paola Nuñez, Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gosatti, and Turlough Convery.
The
Resident Evil games have long been fodder for adaptation, beginning with the Milla Jovovich film franchise and most recently with the Kaya Scodelario-starring film reboot,
Welcome to Raccoon City, in 2021. Netflix also released the animated TV series
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness in 2021. Earlier this year, Dabb told reporters that his goal for the live-action series was to
tell a multi-season story set in the same world as the games, eventually bringing in familiar mythology from games like the recent
Resident Evil: Village.
But
Resident Evil was met with mixed reviews, and it currently holds a 55 percent critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Per
Deadline, which first reported news of the cancellation, the show debuted as Netflix's second biggest show of the week, behind only
Stranger Things, but it quickly fell off the charts after only few weeks.