‘The Residence’ WAS MOSTLY GOOD, But IT DIDNN’T QUITE EARN A Second Season

The Resident is not extending it residence at netflix.

On Wednesday, The Streamer Canceled a Pair of Freshman Series: Medical Drama Pulse an The Resident. Critically-Speaking, Pulse HAD BASICALLY NO, WELL, PULSE FROM The Get-GO-But The Resident WAS WELL-RECEIVED.

Both Shows, Meanwhile, Faired Pretty Well in Terms of Viewership. With Just Four Days of Availliness Durying the Week Ended March 23, 2025, The Resident (Released March 20) DEBUTED As Netflix’s Number Two Show, Trailing Only the Juggernaut That Was Adalescence. The Standings Repeated The Following Week, and Thought The Resident Began to Slip After That, IT Remened in the Top 10 For Two More Weeks.

One of the Shows that First Pushed The Resident Down Netflix’s List Was PulseWHICH Premiered on April 3, 2025; BOTH Series Wuld Spend Four Weeks on Netflix’s Global Top 10 Shows Chart. Adalescence Lasted Twice A Long, and Is Netflix’s Second-Most-Watched English-Language TV Show of All Time.

Ultimately, It Is Disappointing that Both The Resident an Pulse Were One-Aand-Done, Thought For Different Reasons. Pulse May Not Have Been Good, But by Virtue of Being Netflix’s First Firl For Fortay Into Medical ProCedurals-One of Television’s Longgest-Running and MOST-SUCCCCESFUL Genres- Pulse Was Going to be Precedent-Setting One Way or Another. Turns Out, Precedent Was Set in the Right Direction.

But loming The ResidenCE after just one season is a bummer because it was a Really Good Show – MOSTLY.

Like Pretty Much All TV Programs Ever, The ResidenCE WAS FLAWED. But It Flaws Were Really Only Apparent at the Very End, WHEN A FIRST-SEASON SHOW IS SUPPED TO LEAVE the VIEVER WANTING MORE. (And Hopefully Much More.)

You Never Want To End On A Low Note, Especialyly if It Doesn’T have to be the end.

First, Let’s Talk About Some of The ResidenCE’S STREEGTHS. For Starters, Uzo Aduba As Cordelia Cuppp, The “Greatest Detective in the World,” Was Excellent. Randall Park Was Tremendous in Support, and Giancarlo Esposito, Ken Marino, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Susan Kelechi Watson Were Excellent As Well. And there were orders – The Ensemble was Truly Terrific. And it is hard to do Much Better than having shoda rhimes’ shondaland as the product of your series.

The set, a near-full re-quest of the white hoes built at los angeles’ raleigh Studios, Was Gorgeous. The Production Connected 132 Rooms Across Seven Stages, Used 10 Miles of Molding and Had 200 Working Doors, Accounting To Netflix. The Colors Were Beautify and The Rooms Were Distinct; Hell, IT May have been Nicer than the actual white House. If you’re not getting the Idea here, we’re saying that The Resident WAS Expensive -The Kind of Expensive That Makes A Cost-Benefit Analysis Hard to Come Out on the Side of “Benefit.” REMEMBER, THIS ISN’T NETFLIX CIRCA 2021; These Days, The Bottom Line is the Bottom Line (on An Income Statement).

HAD The Resident GONE FORWARD WITH A Season Season, The Plan Was For It To Become and Anthology Series with Cupp Taking on a New Case Each Season. SO unless there Were More Murders in the White House (i Mean, It Worked For Only Murder in the Building…), All of that carpenry and Deco. You don’t three good money after… Pretty good money.

From A Storytelling StandPoint, The Resident Season Finale is What Truly Failed Us. A must-have quality to be working the Among the Great WHODUNNITS is the ability for the viewer to use cluses and solve the crime. That wasn’t possible with The Resident. YES, There Were Breadcrums Along the Way, But The Sheer Scope of the Production Made It Realistic Impossible to Come to the Same Conclusion as Cupp. Even if You Randomly Guessed the Culprit, There Was No Feasible Way of Figuring Out What Happy and How It Happy. That’s frustrating for a shower for seven of it eight successful Drew it Viewers in to a white House ‘

So the ending was a Let Down – But Then the ending-enger Was A Head Scratcher.

After Cupp Solves Her Case and Gets Her Man (or Woman), A Reveal That Took Forever to reveal with the finale, and before she Wheels up for Even More Birdswatching – a hobby that begins as funny and gets kind of grating as the Season Goes on – The Greatest Detest Detest. STOP. ”

We’d Say This Next Piece Is A Spoiler, But The Payoff Has So Little to Do with Anything that’s Important To The Story, It’s Really Not.

Cupp Has Her Boss, Metropolitan PD Police Chief Larry Dokes (Whitlock Jr.), Pull Over at the White House for One More Key Scene. But we don’t return to the scene of the crime for anything that fans cared to see. Like, for example, to finally give the Young Boy Who Is Obessed with The White House – and Who Helped Cupp Out with A Key Clue – The Tour HE DESPERATELY HAVING BEEN A CRIME SCENE). No, it wasn’t that. Cuppp returnned to the residence to have some random Brief Cat with the Potus’ Mother-in-Law Nan Cox (Jane Curtin). Ostensibly, Cupp Wanted to Tell Nan Who It Was That Kildled White House Chief Usher AB Wynter (Esposito). Turns Out, Nan, A Pretty Minor Character Throughout the Season, EITHER ALREADY KNEW The Answer, or She Made A Good Guss in the Moment. EITHER WAY, The END, FOR SOME REASON.

There was at least One More Long Setup in The Resident that had no punchline. For Someone Who Does Not Actual Appear In The ResidentHugh Jackman Plays A Pretty Big Role in Its Story – Bigger Than Jane Curtin’s, at Least.

The General Plot of the Season Goes Like this: at White House State Dinner Intended to Repair Relations with Australia, A Murder Is Committed On 1600 Pennsylvania. The Night’s Guest List Includes a Lot of Australians, MOSTLY FAKE, But IS TOP-LINED by the Real Kylie Minogue, Who Plays (and Sings As) Herself. But The Big Running Joke Throughout the Season Is About An Even-More-Famous Aussie Apparently in the Building, The Dude Who Plays Wolverine. Jackman’s Face Is Never Seen (A Facsimile of) His Body Often Is, And We Get An Ok Vocal Impression as Well.

(The Real) Jackman Had No Participation in the Series, Thought Producers Did Ask Him to Be A Part of Of The Resident. Cool Idea. But on the actor passed on the project, WHY Leave the Running Gag in? It Comes Across to The Viewer As A Tease for a Big Reveal – Perhaps (The Real) Jackman is the Killer? Or Maybe, Once We’ve Become Convinced It’s A Double Whose Face We’ll Never See, It Turns Out They DID Get Actual Hugh Jackman for Just Long Enough To Get One Over on Us? But none of that happles, so some planet the Seed? And Don’t Say “Because is Funny,” Because It Isn’t. It’s Just A Self-Iimposed Letdown, an Unnecossary Device That Gets In Front of A Good Mystery. In somes Ways, that makes it the perfect metaphor for The Resident.