The TV version of The Purge is set to be just as captivating and horrifying as the movie version as it continues to lock down its cast and set people to worrying about whether or not the day might come when government decides to ‘trim the fat’ in order to cut down on the crime rate. The Purge is a terrifying look at what could possibly happen if people were left to their own devices to do what they want if there were no consequences to their actions for a 12-hour period. You can bet that a large amount of the population would lock themselves away and blood would run in the streets without cease. So far the show is promising to be just as controversial and as filled with uncertainty as the movies have been
So far it sounds like the show will be released around the same time as the next movie, The First Purge, which will detail just how The Purge came to be. Hanna Anderson, Lee Tergesen, and Lili Simmons will be rounding out the cast as regulars on the show and will be featured as characters dealing with their own uncertainties as they wander out into the chaotic landscape that is created when ever the the Purge is enacted. Just imagine having to walk the streets knowing that the next person you meet could be the last person you’ll ever see. The mindset of humanity is a complicated thing but when it comes down to base emotions and animal instincts it seems that humans are more drawn to violence than introspection at times. Some people want to live a normal, happy life, while others want to see the world burn. Of course there are those that sit in between that might not want to feel drawn to either side, but instead will defend themselves against anything and anyone that bothers to confront them.
The Purge asks a lot more questions about human nature than it really answers since on one hand it’s hard to believe that so many people would simply go nuts and try to kill anyone and everyone they can in a 12-hour period. On the other hand however this would be a time for those that can’t let the past go to settle old scores and to take whatever revenge they think is their due without fear of being incarcerated. But would it end there? Conventional wisdom seems to imply that it would only inspire more hatred, create more revenge-laden ideas, and possibly annihilate an entire country by attrition as the years passed by. The oceans of blood that would be left behind would be a sad testament to a country that was founded on freedom but couldn’t handle it due to the inability to live in what amounts to peaceful tolerance.
The show will no doubt be just as thrilling as the movies, and will raise just as many questions about what it is to be human.
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