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Scarlett O'Toole

Netflix's Resident Evil show branded 'so bad' people want it removed from streaming

Netflix has recently released a Resident Evil series, with viewers saying the show is "awful" and should be removed from the streaming giant.

The eight-episode show is inspired by the survival horror video game franchise and landed on Netflix last week.

The series sees Lance Reddick playing Albert Wesker, while both Ella Balinska and Tamara Smart have taken on the role of his daughter Jade. Adeline Rudolph and Siena Agudong play Billie.

After watching the show, many viewers have taken to Twitter to share how disappointed they were by it.

One person wrote: "#ResidentEvil dahell is this… Couldn't watch more than 15 min of it. Who watched it and decided to put it out. Everything about it was whack. Kind of disappointing. Just remove it and pretend it didn't happen."

The show hasn't faired well with fans (Marcos Cruz/Netflix)

Another said: "Just finished the new Resident Evil. Can someone please explain the point of it or what actually happened."

A third tweeted: "That Resident Evil series is just so awful. They should just remove it from Netflix," while another wrote: "The shows dropped in quality. Resident Evil is actually disgusting and embarrassing."

Not every viewer was let down by the show though, with one person writing: "That new resident evil show is good af."

Another said: "Bro the new Resident Evil series has the potential to be better then Stranger Things, first season was really good," while another added: "Please how good is this RESIDENT EVIL on NETFLIX?"

Resident Evil has some bad reviews online (Marcos Cruz/Netflix)

Showrunner Andrew Dabb said they tried to focus on the characters and their journeys instead of the monsters.

"We didn’t go into it with a list of, 'Here are the three or four monsters we want to put in there'," he told Bloody Disgusting.

"What we went in it was, 'Okay. Here our characters are; here’s where the journey has taken them. They’re in this long dark tunnel. What’s something creepy to put in that long dark tunnel?'

Resident Evil has been created by the brains behind Supernatural (Marcos Cruz/Netflix)

"Then you go to the games, like, ‘Oh, well, let’s put some Lickers in there. Let’s put a giant spider in there.’

"That’s really where it came from."

He added: "We’re not making a line-for-line or game-for-game adaptation on purpose, giving us a vast toy box to pull from."

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