Resident Evil fans the franchise that has spawned several movies both animated and live action is also about to spawn it's first ever American live action TV series for Netflix but before that tho we have the franchises first ever animated TV series which is also being released via Netflix. I will very fully admit to you all reading this review right here and right now that I completely forgot about this show even being a thing let alone when it was coming out and so join me as I give my one hundred percent SPOILER FREE review of the TV series that let's face it alot of forgot was even a thing with the TV series in question being called simply just "Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness" enjoy.
The plot of this series is after a zombie outbreak occurs at the White House Leon S. Kennedy and a team of agents are tasked with finding who started this attack on the White House meanwhile Claire Redfield investigates a drawing that a child made in the fictional war torn country of Penamstan with the picture depicting what looks to be another zombie outbreak. Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this show / TV series in all honesty I personally thought that the plot of this show / TV series was at best decent since it was pretty / fairly engaging but at the same time the plot is also fairly forgettable and as well as being pretty / fairly boring as well at the same time in my opinion anyways / at least.
Starring in this dubbed version of this particular TV show / TV series is Nick Apostolides as Leon S. Kennedy and Stephanie Panisello as Claire Redfield. Also starring in this TV series is , Aleks Le as Jun See , Anthony Tai as Yu En , Billy Kametz as Patrick , Brad Venable as Ryan , Doug Stone as Wilson , Joe J. Thomas as President Graham , Jona Xiao as Shen May , Ray Chase as Jason , Armen Taylor as Maddog , Bill Butts as Maddog , Chris Tergliafera as Maddog , David Vincent as Maddog , Kaiji Tang as Spacer and Xander Mobus as Maddog.
In terms of what I personally thought about the acting thats featured / presented to us in this TV series well then in all honesty I honestly really did like the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very TV series. While I have no idea if any of the voice cast have played their respective characters in the Resident Evil video games I can honestly say that I wish that Nick Apostolides and Stephanie Panisello get more chances to play their respective characters as they are really good at playing their respective characters in this particular / very TV series.
Doing the animation for this particular / very TV series is Quebico who according to animenewsnetwork have only worked on this particular / very TV series and literally nothing else ever made in the history of ever. Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very TV series in all honesty I personally thought that the animation that was featured in this particular / very TV series was really goof and i'm not just saying that either I honestly do believe that the animation that was featured / presented to us in this very TV series was feature film worthy because the animation really did look that good and what helped the animation in my opinion anyways / at least is the fact that they used motion capture for all of the characters (in some cases even using the same actor or actress to do the motion capture for their respective character) which in all honesty really did help get the character movements and as well being the character animation down freaking perfectly in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I know what your all thinking and yes you are all right Netflix does indeed have a Resident Evil in development however the stark difference between the Resident Evil series that is currently in development at Netflix and this series is that the series that Netflix is currently working on is live action where as as you can see this series is fully 3D CGI animated. Honestly I have no idea why Netflix chose to have not one but Resident Evil TV series airing on their streaming service since it will only create some very mild marketplace confusion with mainstream audiences and while that confusion is soften up by the fact that this series has a subtle there will be some people who jus see the new Resident Evil and assume that this series is the live action series and honestly I think that it would have helped Netflix if they held of on greenlighting a live action Resident Evil TV series until they had fully released all of the episodes of this particular / very TV series.
This way mainstream audiences / none anime fans wouldn't get confused over which Resident Evil TV series that they were about to press play on. I will give Netflix this tho making Netflix the only place where you can watch a high profile anime series like this very / particular series is a good way to ensure that you get a few more subscribers then say Peacock , HBO Max or Disney+ all of whom have very high profile films and TV shows either currently out or being released very soon.
As to be expected for a show this short there really isn't much there in terms of character development at all in this series. Which while it is to be expected given the amount of episodes it's still a bad thing since it comes across as the writers for this very / particular series are being very lazy and not really helping things is the fact that none of the new characters are not only not really likable but none of the new cast of characters are given any kind of personality trait whatsoever and so all of the new characters that are appearing in this particular / very TV series come across as bland and wooden characters.
Now then this particular / very TV series is only four episodes long with each episode lasting no more then thirty minuets which means that the total running time for this particular / very TV series is that the very least one hour and thirty minuets and as such you could very easily watch all four episodes in one sitting if you really wanted to and I gave to say that the total running tome for this series was the perfect running time for this series. Since there really isn't enough there in terms of plot or in terms of story for that matter and so trying to make this series last say eight episodes for example would have been stretching an already fairly thin story even thinner in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then while the Resident Evil franchise is a horror franchise and indeed there are horror elements to be seen in this TV series in my opinion anyways / at least this TV show / TV series is more if an action drama then a horror show and as such that does infact mean that I have to talk about the actual action that is featured / presented to us in this film and well just like with the animation the action that's featured / presented to us in this TV series is really good. This however is not a surprise since the action in any of the animated Resident Evil products has always been really freaking good and so it's only fitting that the action is indeed actually good for the first ever animated Netflix Resident Evil TV series in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this is by far not the worst Resident Evil piece if media out there since that honor goes to Resident Evil: The Final Chapter but it's also not the best piece of Resident Evil media that's currently out there either. This series falls into a strange and weird middle ground since for everything that it gets right it does two things wrong and now then since i've talked about both of the good things and as well as both of the bad things that are in this TV series in this very review that means that this TV series gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Resident Evil fandom wiki page ad from Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this TV series that I indeed personally used in this very review being the official Resident Evil fandom wiki page just simply de to the fact that most of if not all of the images that I personally used that are also from the official Resident Evil Evil fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
