Netflix is home to the latest adaptation of the iconic video game series Resident Evil. The new show has had a mixed critical reception, and has one of Netflix’s lowest audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, it already has its die-hard fans, and it plays into a lot of familiar genre tropes. So, what are some other shows like Resident Evil? We’ve compiled a few.
Resident Evil jumps back and forth in time. In 2022, two sisters live in New Racoon City under the watchful eye of the mysterious Umbrella Corporation, where their father works on secret research. When they break into an Umbrella lab, they realize that the company may be working on something dangerous. In the near future, one of the sisters researches what went wrong at Umbrella. The world is overrun by zombies, and she works with a group of survivors to find a cure before Umbrella makes things worse.