The highly anticipated Resident Evil series from Netflix made its debut on the service on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Unfortunately, the show hasn’t exactly received favorable reviews from viewers at this point. Netizens are expressing their ridicule towards poorly written dialogue with one of the lines of the show being, “I mostly just read Zootopia porn…” To say people are appalled would be an understatement. On Twitter, viewers shared their criticisms about the new horror series. Users commented on the evolution of video-game adaptations and how they have become, “overproduced corporate sludge.”
With an IMDB rating of 3.5/10, Netflix’s adaptation of the videogame series has become the internet’s laughing stock. The plot centers around Jade Wesker, who struggles to survive in a world overrun by infected monsters; fourteen years after a terrible virus caused a global catastrophe while being haunted by her past discoveries about her father. The story alternates between two timelines of events, one taking place 14 years ago and one after.
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So, Why Are Fans Criticizing Netflix’s Resident Evil?
Not only has the series become a part of the internet’s incessant trolling, but people are expressing their disappointment about the writing that has been done for the series. Fans’ patience reached its penultimate point when a user on Twitter posted about a specific line that was in the show.
ZOOTOPIA PORN IS CANON IN THE RESIDENT EVIL UNIVERSE
U HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS pic.twitter.com/Gl5c6cjwYI
— Ramges Jeyes 🆓 best pld in batasan hills (@Reyesynthesis) July 14, 2022
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Kudos to Zootopia being canon in the Resident Evil universe, but while some fans questioned the inclusion of this specific dialogue, others questioned their sanity.
This cannot be real
— Firetail Taevarth The Charizard (@Taevarth) July 14, 2022
The dialogue in Netflix's new Resident Evil series feels like it was written by a bot that was forced to play Life is Strange for 10,000 hours and then threatened with a Windows update if it didn't type out a script.
— brady @ Bayonetta 3 stan account (@bradyonetta) July 14, 2022
The new Resident Evil series on Netflix sure has some dialogue choices… pic.twitter.com/jDE0D2GYVf
— TRAFON(s Backup Account) (@RiseFallNickBck) July 15, 2022
While most of it was lighthearted trolling, some expressed their declining faith in Netflix.
To no ones surprise, the Resident Evil show is BAD. Distractingly poor CG, edgy teen writing full of forced f-bombs, and a plot that meanders. Ties to the game are superficial at best. God bless Lance Reddick’s ability to make dumb dialogue sound ok. Netflix, please stop trying.
— Critical Nobody (@Crit_Nobody) July 16, 2022
The Resident Evil series on Netflix is so bad and I feel stupid for expecting anything other than literal garbage. One of the first lines of dialogue is, “I just read zootopia porn,” and if the rest is anything to go by, it’s written by terminally online teenagers.
— kris⁷ ♱ (@kriswrites_) July 17, 2022
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Was Netflix’s Resident Evil All Bad?
While the criticisms have mounted up for the series, was it all just horrendous and poorly executed? The answer may be a definitive yes for some people.
While some users on Twitter expressed positive sentiments, most of them talked of not just the unpleasantly written “cringe” dialogues, but also about the show’s never-ending clichés, how it refuses to stay true to its video-game source material, and how its nothing but a “bad fanfic with a budget.” Some even questioned, “what were the writers thinking?”
What were they thinking when they made the script for the new RE Netflix series? This line does not come out clever or funny; just awkward. #ResidentEvilNetflix pic.twitter.com/g6boXQmwH9
— JD (@JDPF14) July 14, 2022
Producers of Resident Evil adaptions using material from the games pic.twitter.com/v0rdPCzbKE
— matty baby (@neopetsfan666) July 14, 2022
While most of the reception is bad, some stated that the series has some redeeming qualities. Most of it was in praise of Lance Reddick who plays Albert Wesker in the Netflix series. Fans have certainly appreciated his acting in Resident Evil and perhaps, that will be the only pleasant takeaway for most.
Lots of criticism out there for #ResidentEvilNetflix and most of it is probably valid. But I think the show is worth watching despite its issues just for Lance Reddick. He's a fantastic actor who is always batting 400 (in baseball: the standard of hitting excellence) pic.twitter.com/SJMB5czTfN
— Zack Leary (@realZackLeary) July 15, 2022
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The Resident Evil series is out and streaming exclusively on Netflix.
