The Netflix effect has helped a lot to keep the series going with new episodes
One thing that isn’t talked about as much is that there are some titles that don’t make much noise when they are released, but that changes when Netflix is done with their rights. The case of ‘Suits’ was highly commented on last year, but now it’s time to focus on a science fiction series whose success on the platform has been key to avoid an almost guaranteed cancellation, since it has just been renewed for season 4.
The series that has benefited from the Netflix effect has been ‘Resident Alien’. Starring Alan Tudyktells the story of an alien who comes to Earth with the mission of ending humanity who poses as a doctor in a town in the United States and has to constantly deal with the dilemma of whether or not to fulfill the task assigned to him. have assigned.
Acclaimed but ignored
With a purely comedic approach, ‘Resident Alien’ has 97% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but audiences didn’t react too enthusiastically during its original airing on Syfy. In fact, its ratings were so low that its future was in serious danger: cancellation or moving from Syfy to USA Network with a drastic budget cut.
However, its arrival on Netflix this past February showed that there was a significant audience for the series, since It remained for five consecutive weeks in the weekly Top 10 of the most viewed on the platform. All this only with North American viewers, which gave even more merit to this achievement.
At NBCUniversal they have finally decided to give a season 4 to ‘Resident Alien’, a series that from now on it moves to USA Networkwhere you will have the opportunity to reach a larger audience than on Syfy.
We’ll see how the play turns out.since season 3, which came to an end on April 3, was slightly helped by the push of Netflix – its audiences had sunk in the final stretch of its second installment, so its future was already hanging in the balance. a thread – but most likely many will simply wait for the new episodes to be there, if that ends up happening.
With everything, It is logical that NBCUniversal wants to explore all the possibilities before giving in to the possibility that perhaps Netflix wants to take it over and be the home of its new episodes.
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