Like Barry Burton in the first Resident Evil, we bellowed out a throaty “Weskerrrrr!” upon reading the news of a new Netflix series based on the long-running Capcom series. The streamer’s live-action spin on the convoluted mythos, it turns out, will center on 14-year old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker, characters we can only assume are in some way related to Albert Wesker, the sunglasses-wearing, smooth-talking spy, scientist, and antagonist.
The series will, per a press release, also be split into two timelines. The first follows the sisters as they move into New Raccoon City, which they come to realize is filled with secrets (and, you know, flesh-eating monsters that take a full clip to put down). The second timeline is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland more than a decade into the future. “[T]here are less than fifteen million people left on Earth,” reads a synopsis. “And more than six billion monsters—people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past—about her sister, her father and herself—continue to haunt her.”