That, today, the Netflix’s Resident Evil series has not left anyone indifferent is a reality. The messed up script, poor acting, and even more lackluster special effects have made this series the worst adaptation of Resident Evil for fans. And that, with competitors with the Paul WS Anderson movie saga (especially the latest ones) and the recent Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the level was quite low. However, the Netflix’s Resident Evil series It continues for the moment in the Top 10 of the most watched series on the platform, something that has made some compare it with Jared Leto’s failed Morbius.
Will Netflix’s Resident Evil series be the new Morbius?
For those of you who do not know the Morbius meme, we put you in context: in April of this year, Sony and Disney decided to project the Morbius movie in cinemas, becoming an immediate failure. The film suffered the same criticism from fans, most of which focused on the performances, script holes, and depressing effects. Just like what happened to Netflix’s Resident Evil.
When its run in theaters ended, a streamer decided to show it and the repercussion was immediate: the film was a great success, went around the networks and even gave rise to the meme “it’s Morbin time!”, running like wildfire through the mouth to mouth This made Sony, supported by the fans, decide to show it again in theaters, to finally get a more notorious failure than the first time.
The best memes from Netflix’s Resident Evil series
And why Resident Evil can be the new Morbin? Because it is experiencing an effect very similar to that of the Marvel movie, not counting its time at the box office: as bad as it is, it is going viral and quite a few people are “daring” to see it. It is still early to know official data, but perhaps this “Morbin effect” will cause us to have a new season of Netflix’s Resident Evil. To like?