Lance Reddick remains to be cool as hell, and the Capcom video video games will go on presumably perpetually, however Netflix’s Resident Evil collection is becoming a member of the record of exhibits that received one season on the streamer and weren’t introduced again for extra.

Deadline, which broke the information of the cancellation, chalks the present’s one-and-done standing to the truth that “the drama did not have a particularly strong showing on Netflix’s Top 10 and cost vs. viewing is the streamer’s leading renewal criterion.” The commerce additionally factors out that Resident Evil was positioned to trip the coattails of Stranger Things—which has comparable themes of teenagers taking up a horrifying, lab-spawned menace—however couldn’t maintain onto a Stranger Things-sized viewers.

That’s sadly not what showrunner Andrew Dabb had in thoughts for the mission; in May, he instructed io9 that whereas the primary eight-episode season wrapped up an entire story for its characters (together with Reddick’s Albert Wesker), he nonetheless had extra plot threads he hoped to discover in future seasons.

Not all of the information is unhealthy for style exhibits over at Netflix at present, nonetheless; to get your apocalyptic repair from one other supply, you can begin counting down till The Umbrella Academy’s just-announced fourth and final season.

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