Review by C.J. Bunce
In the world of zombie stories, Resident Evil has more than established itself as the big winner. Box office billions aside, after this year’s better than expected, big-budget fun zombie flick Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (reviewed here) and last year’s anime Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, the most successful video game tie-in franchise ever only gets better. Netflix’s eight-part Resident Evil live-action television series isn’t perfect, but fans aren’t really looking for perfect. What you get is the ultimate genre-bending mash-up. Sure, you’d expect the sci-fi horror, but full-fledged kaiju monster action? Edgy-Terminator level cautionary themes? Orphan Black-inspired clones? Evil Dead-level action and fun? Skip the drama of The Walking Dead–this is the kind of action, acting, and storytelling game fans really want. And you don’t even need to care about the zombie genre to dig it.
