The long-awaited new Netflix series Resident Evil has finally dropped today. This new, live-action adaptation of the popular, horror survival video game tells a brand new story over two timelines - acting as an origin story for the franchise's primary villain, Albert Wesker.
In the first timeline, in 2022, 14-year-old twin sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City - a manufactured, sanitised corporate town. Their father, Dr Albert Wesker, is the top scientist for the Umbrella Corporation, which owns the town.
But the more time they spend there, the more they realise their father may be hiding secrets. And these secrets - surrounding an anti-depressant called Joy, developed from research into the mutagenic T-virus - could destroy the world.
