Huh… A ‘Purge’ TV Show

There must be something behind this TVee-quel thing at the minute and why so many shows are headed that way, although I don’t understand what it is.  Maybe Breaking Bad and The Sopranos being on TV within the space of one decade, spurring what some called a ‘golden era’ was belatedly noticed by the bean counters and now they want a piece of the money.

The Purge is next in line, according to James DeMonaco.

Speaking with CinemaBlend, DeMonaco explains, “Yes! Not an anthology… I guess kind of an anthology — more of an interwoven anthology. They came to me about a TV show, my idea is that you do six or seven storylines. And I would kind of intercut them, use flashbacks.”

He continues, explaining why he thinks this is the best approach to continue the series and how it allows for a greater expansion of the story and concept of “The Purge” itself:

The idea of why I like the idea of a maybe 10 hour TV thing on this, the one thing you really can’t do on the films is, just because of mere real estate and time, is you can’t get into the nuance and complexity that would drive someone to commit a terrible act on this night. Whether it’s revenge or out of passion, but what might be interesting in a TV show is with a flashback narrative, if you start on Purge Night but you go back to show how people have gotten to where they are. Where you see a couple that’s gone haywire on this night, but let’s show everything that’s led up to this moment of a husband trying to kill a wife — the cheating or the accusations of cheating or money problems. It will be interesting to show those arcs, those dramatic and complex arcs that get people to where they pick up a gun or a knife and kill someone else. I think there’s something cool that we can do with the real estate of TV — 10 hours, potentially.

Confession:  I couldn’t even finish The Purge: Election Year.  My tolerance for bullshit movies and TV shows has wavered recently.  I’m not even going to get into why ‘Election’ Year got my goat, but suffice to say there will be no review of that movie on this site.