You're in a restaurant. You think you're gonna treat yourself and order a nice and juicy filet steak. The waiter comes and slams a lone hot dog on your dish and calls it a day.
Had you ordered a hot dog, you might have been kind of satisfied, but now you're just confused AND unhappy.
Thats what its like to watch this show. It has basically nothing to do with Resident Evil, aside from names. Even less than the Anderson movies.
We've got two main characters. Billie and Jade. Billie is actually a little bit more likeable than Jade, who is an insufferable teenager that just hates everything because she was forced to move. Okay - a trope we've had a lot in the past, but Jade doesn't change. She has no revelation that changes her perspective or anything, she just stays insufferable until the very end. Billie cannot really decide if she wants to be the nice sister or the bitchy sister, so she just jumps between those two.
There is a second timeline in the future where Jade is researching zombies, but its basically just a row of monster attacks to mix up the monotony of the past timeline. The future feels like it has no direction other than action and Jade kind of trips over what she is looking for while fighting monsters, all while the show can't really decide if it wants to be funny, tragic or just popcorn.
All in all the show would've been at least partially enjoyable if it didn't have anything to do with Resident Evil, which is why it still got a 3 stars from me. Just watch it with the idea in mind that its completely original and you can at least enjoy it for what it is - a mediocre at best show with subpar writing.
That being said, I'm a big fan of Lance Reddick and I think he was awfully wasted in this show.
Had you ordered a hot dog, you might have been kind of satisfied, but now you're just confused AND unhappy.
Thats what its like to watch this show. It has basically nothing to do with Resident Evil, aside from names. Even less than the Anderson movies.
We've got two main characters. Billie and Jade. Billie is actually a little bit more likeable than Jade, who is an insufferable teenager that just hates everything because she was forced to move. Okay - a trope we've had a lot in the past, but Jade doesn't change. She has no revelation that changes her perspective or anything, she just stays insufferable until the very end. Billie cannot really decide if she wants to be the nice sister or the bitchy sister, so she just jumps between those two.
There is a second timeline in the future where Jade is researching zombies, but its basically just a row of monster attacks to mix up the monotony of the past timeline. The future feels like it has no direction other than action and Jade kind of trips over what she is looking for while fighting monsters, all while the show can't really decide if it wants to be funny, tragic or just popcorn.
All in all the show would've been at least partially enjoyable if it didn't have anything to do with Resident Evil, which is why it still got a 3 stars from me. Just watch it with the idea in mind that its completely original and you can at least enjoy it for what it is - a mediocre at best show with subpar writing.
That being said, I'm a big fan of Lance Reddick and I think he was awfully wasted in this show.