Netflix's 5 Biggest Sci-Fi Flops, Ranked by Their Rotten Tomatoes Scores

From IO to The Electric State, these ambitious Netflix originals had franchise potential but failed to make a lasting impact. Netflix has become the streaming equivalent of a giant video store. Whether you're looking for an Oscar-winning drama, a true-crime documentary, a reality dating show, or an action blockbuster, chances are you'll find something worth watching. Netflix built its reputation on offering a little bit of everything, even if not all of it reaches the same level of quality. The platform's science fiction library perfectly illustrates that balancing act. Netflix has delivered acclaimed series like Stranger Things, Black Mirror, and 3 Body Problem, proving it can produce some of the genre's most compelling original series. (Even if it still struggles with endings.) But Netflix has also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ambitious original sci-fi movies that arrived with blockbuster aspirations only to vanish from the cultural conversation before the streamer could even ask, "Are you still watching?" Whether they suffered from weak scripts, impossible expectations, or simply failed to leave much of an impression, these are Netflix's five biggest sci-fi flops. An