Resident Evil
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Sometimes lost in the six-to-ten-hour-movie streaming model of binge-friendly television are old-fashioned concepts like info dumps and bottle episodes.
Due respect to this shows many strengths, but family scavenger hunts are not exactly whatResident Evildoes best.
Billie, relieved to be feeling healthier and decidedly non-undead, would rather eat ice cream.
Unless … well, lets save the theorizing for now.)
She has one of those torture-tool blankets and everything!
Wesker is reluctant to go along until he finds out that the journalist has talked to his daughters.
Wesker turns up just in time to stop the fire.
He flies into a rage at Jade, and Billie knocks him out.
This means, Wesker says without quite saying, that Angel the journalist has to die with that secret.
Yes, thats a lot of plot to burn through.
So why isnt it one of the strongest outings so far?
Why does it feel more like a summary than an organically drawn-out drama?
The girls free their dad, tacitly endorsing his plan to do whatever he must to protect them.
Jade asks her father as he heads to the office to take care of Angel.
He can only respond with the cold comfort of avoidance disguised with fatherly advice: Stay safe.
In a horror-light episode, itll have to do.
If Wesker is supposed to be in his 50s, thats a much younger man in the 1998 video.
Almost suspiciously young to be in possession of that footage, dont you think?
TheResident Evilmovies are rife with clones; maybe this isnttheWesker, butaWesker.
(Its not a sex dungeon, despite the handcuff-laden chair.)
is the natural first question for anything related to a deadly virus.
