Ben and Turner has always been the end game for the frat brothers storyline, particularly once Kelen was dispatched. “Before The Sirens” is more set-up than satisfaction, Ryan’s betrayal of Ziv aside. The way Ryan dispatches his Ziv-mandated guard is especially brutal and nasty, in a good way.
Ditto Ryan and Esme’s respective schemes the airport tarmac showdown comes out of nowhere and is executed brilliantly, without ruining any of the tension established by watching Ryan and company slowly put their plan into place. He skulks around and gets the upper hand on pretty much everyone, sneaking around in the back of frames before pouncing. The scenes prior to the beginning of The Purge, particularly with Ben, are simply brilliant stalker scenes. Still, it’s a chance for Lussier to show off his B-movie director credentials, which run throughout his IMDb profile. After all, if you shoot him in the foot, you get the same hospitalization and an easier injury to explain away given all the Purge-related gun practice. Still, a shattered forearm (there’s no way that’s a clean break) is probably a pretty bad way to make sure your son is in the hospital. If you’re in the hospital, you’re immune from The Purge, and even the NFFA won’t infringe on that sacred space.
Darren is checking the tires of the car, Marcus is slipping a pipe wrench out of the trunk of the car… it goes a little sideways-Patrick Lussier is definitely twisting things to make it seem like Marcus is about to murder his only son-but then the reasoning for the shattered arm is revealed. It’s a shocking thing that comes out of nowhere. The rest of the episode’s stories aren’t particularly surprising, aside from one insane special effects moment involving Marcus and Darren that will no doubt make viewers cringe around the world. All that to say that when Ryan revealed his group’s true mission at the end of the episode, I was, perhaps wrongly, caught by surprise.
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Perhaps the pacing of weekly television, and the tendency for limited series like The Purge to tell a self-contained 10 episode story, run counter to one another, or are more rewarding when episodes can simply be finished off over the course of an ambitiously couch-bound day. Friends have binge-watched the first season and enjoyed it, and after discussion, decided they’d be interested in binging the second season as well. Perhaps The Purge might be easier to see, as far as the big picture goes, if it was the sort of show that could be binge-watched.