"Resident Evil" is the latest show taking on the death of the work/life balance

When one of my previous employers posted the redesign plans for our workplace, among the highlighted enticements were upgraded employee lounges. Siena Agudong as young Billie and Tamara Smart as young Jade in "Resident Evil" That part of the story follows a pair of teenagers, Billie and Jade as they relocate with their father Albert Wesker to Umbrella's South African's company town, New Racoon City. Between this idea and its vision of corporate life and living, "Resident Evil" shares a similar type of unnerving premise as the ones at play in "Severance," in which Lumon Industries designs a way to divide consciousness between one's work existence and one's personal time, monitoring its employees by setting them up to be neighbors in the same community. That's very different from what "Resident Evil" presents in that Lumon appears to offer incentives to its employees beyond merely staying alive. Digging into the cutthroat corporate culture of Umbrella, "Resident Evil" showrunner Andrew Dabb draws parallels to the inhumane corruption of the Sackler's and Purdue Pharma.