The Purge: What is America? Spoiler Review

I wasn't really looking forward to watching this as I think one movie every other year is pretty decent amount of purge-ness.

So far, we have three stories going on.

1.) The brother looking for his sister, who checked out of a rehab facility months before without telling anyone.

2.) The daughter saying good bye to her mom, who is stuck in the hospital. Her mom was trying to convince her not to go to work, to stay at the hospital where everyone is off-limits.

3.) A couple getting ready for a party.

1 and 2 were pretty standard for the Purge. 3 was cookie cutter, right up until a weird cut to a threesome. I wasn't even sure what I was looking at at first.

My sweet baby girl Jessica Garza. I've missed her adorable face since Six ended - and prematurely cancelled. She plays Penelope, the runaway sister to Gabriel Chavarria's searching brother character Miguel. She has fallen in with a cult-type group, led by Tavis. Tavis is played by the budding star Fiona Dourif. If her name isn't familiar, that's a shame. Her father Brad Dourif is the voice behind Chucky.

The daughter (2) Jane (Amanda Warren) is a successful financing professional. She's stuck at work during the purge because her boss (William Baldwin) needed everyone for some reason to come in on the only night of the year where it's legal to kill people.

The couple, Rick (Colin Woodell) and Jenna (Hanna Anderson) finally get to their party where we learn a tiny bit more about this other lady. Apparently, there's nothing to worry about because she's still in Africa - oh, wait, she's here? Of course she is. Why wouldn't she be?

Business lady Jane hired a mother-trucking assassin. For who, we don't know yet.

Rick and Jenna are officially locked down at the ritzy NFFA party and as the Purge commences, masks are handed out. They are all of murderers. The husband and wife talk about how they should've just left. And boom! That's when this mermaid-looking she-demon comes walking down the stairs. I don't know if she's a she-demon, I barely know her.

Penelope has become sister goddess Penny and is "Giving" herself over to the "Invisible". Essentially, in non-culty terms, she's sacrificing herself on Purge night. Tavis takes her group in a blue bus around the city and stops at a random park or whatever. She chooses Arthur as it's "his time to give". He leaves the bus and is confronted by a group of creepy-mask-wearing ax-wielding purgers. While he's being murdered, a handful of the kids on the bus have second thoughts, including Penelope.

The camera movements in this episode... if you're prone to motion sickness, this is not the best show for you. I'm not that impressed. If you've seen any of the Purge movies, you can just skip the first episode of the show. I will keep watching though and letting you know how I'm feeling it.