The game “Resident Evil” has been adapted again – we just couldn’t get rid of last year’s movie and animation show. Now also about a series of games where relationships are arranged more often than shooting at the undead, and “So, like COVID?” about the zombie virus. A series of games where they ask. There’s clearly more Resident Evil in the world than there should be, and this virological expansion of the series isn’t exactly doing well.
There are reasons to love Milla Jovovich’s films – especially her first ones that have yet to waste their charm and enthusiasm. There are reasons to love Kaya Scodelario’s more original painting of late. There’s probably some reason to be flooded with a new series. But they will have to be persistently sought.
Half of the action of the new “Resident” takes place almost a quarter of a century after the “incident” in Raccoon City, where the first t-virus outbreak occurred. Then it was decided to drop a small atomic bomb on the city to cover their tracks. But Umbrella Corporation, of course, has not given up on its development – and is now trying to create a wonderful drug based on the t-virus that can treat depression and anxiety. And potentially – to correct behavior patterns. Project Managed by Albert Wesker (Lance Reddick of The Wire)Two daughters who moved to New Raccoon City, this time built in South Africa – Jade (Tamara Smart) and Billy (Siena Agudong is acting as a cosplayer for Billy Eilish here for some reason). As usual in Resident Evil, the virus is not something to be taken lightly – and soon the new Raccoon City will be convinced of this firsthand.
The second half of the series is dedicated to the post-apocalyptic. The spread of the T-virus from New Raccoon City began 15 years ago. Since then, the Earth’s population has decreased to 300 thousand people. Billions of people have turned into bloodthirsty cannibalistic monsters. Adult Jade (Ella Balinska from Charlie’s Angels)) studies them and seeks confirmation of the hypothesis that the virus and the monsters produced by it evolved. She is the number one target of the Umbrella Corporation, whose agents are constantly hunting for Jade.
“Resident Evil” moves awkwardly between the two timelines. Combined with the regularly stumbling and fading plot, this creates a frankly monstrous situation: the series rewinds constantly, but due to the chaotic arrangement, in this case there is a risk of missing all the scenes, sometimes so thinly cut that there is nothing. there is no air left in them – and eventually lose the thread. The showrunner here is Andrew Dabb, who once joined Supernatural as a screenwriter for season five, when the project was due to close, so it’s no surprise.
However, the main problem with “Abode” is that the show seems to sew all the supporting elements from the neighbors onto the table, but in any case it is written with errors and is illegible. In the circumstances of the end of the world, it makes sense to go to “The Last of Us” for a parenting family drama (or wait for the show you want to believe in advance). A touching story about two sisters separated by fate will unfold in the animated Arcane, one of the best series of 2021. Gentle post-apocalyptic with Shakespeare (there is such a thing) – in “Station Eleven”; Fun zombie horror game using chainsaw in Ash vs Evil Dead. And such.
“The Abode”, of course, sometimes goes into warm waters: the series bursts out several times with exciting bloody scenes (as a rule, the inclusion of the kaiju mode works), and yet the second half of the season begins to offer plot surprises – not always successful, at most at least it messes up the local swamp. However, this is very lacking – especially in the presence of so much arrogance that the show regularly bets on a second season and does not try to complete the story. At the same time, a number of really funny heroes are being extremely ridiculously disposed of here, apparently without finding further use. In the end, you want to do exactly the same with “Resident Evil”.