Let the Purging commence!
There wasn't much in the way of new information laid at our feet at the beginning of The Purge Season 1 Episode 1 before it was time to get to maiming.
As I mentioned in my earlier review for The Purge based on all available episodes, it would have been interesting to see more time dedicated to the purported low-crime world that results due to Purging. Not yet, it seems.
So what did we get in this opening installment?
There was a lot of exposition and the introduction to what I'm deeming the gullible people. The gullibles are those who are making their way out to the streets for the first time on Purge Night when they don't ordinarily leave the house, let alone partake in Purging.
The most confusing of the bunch are what I was initially calling the "busload of idiots" before taming that take to the "blue bus.
There wasn't much in the way of new information laid at our feet at the beginning of The Purge Season 1 Episode 1 before it was time to get to maiming.
As I mentioned in my earlier review for The Purge based on all available episodes, it would have been interesting to see more time dedicated to the purported low-crime world that results due to Purging. Not yet, it seems.
So what did we get in this opening installment?
There was a lot of exposition and the introduction to what I'm deeming the gullible people. The gullibles are those who are making their way out to the streets for the first time on Purge Night when they don't ordinarily leave the house, let alone partake in Purging.
The most confusing of the bunch are what I was initially calling the "busload of idiots" before taming that take to the "blue bus.
- 9/5/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
The most recent “Purge” movie may have flashed back to show the origins of the frightening ritual, but the USA television series of the same name won’t be as political.
The New Founding Fathers of America (Nffa) are still a part of the show, most notably through the character of Albert Stanton (Reed Diamond), who is an architect of this new world order. But “for everybody else, it’s background noise,” says showrunner Thomas Kelly. “This is the world they live in.”
The show is set a decade after that first purge, and so the core characters have just gotten used to it as a part of their lives. The majority of them try to ignore it and go about their lives without giving into any “purge” urges.
“We all love to write villains, it’s fun, but for us the purge is the villain, so we really wanted...
The New Founding Fathers of America (Nffa) are still a part of the show, most notably through the character of Albert Stanton (Reed Diamond), who is an architect of this new world order. But “for everybody else, it’s background noise,” says showrunner Thomas Kelly. “This is the world they live in.”
The show is set a decade after that first purge, and so the core characters have just gotten used to it as a part of their lives. The majority of them try to ignore it and go about their lives without giving into any “purge” urges.
“We all love to write villains, it’s fun, but for us the purge is the villain, so we really wanted...
- 9/3/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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