This episode dragged on and used some very continent plot contrivances to create drama -- just cause.
One fine example is Lila is let into her lover's home in order to save her from a purger. When opening the front door, using the security system, "for some reason", one and only one of the side windows opened at the same time. This very conveniently allowed the "bad guy" to get into the otherwise secure mansion.
The alarm system the husband is starring at even flashes red and it catches the guy sneaking in on the camera he's staring at. The husband in the very next scene is telling both his wife and Lila, "Don't worry! Everything is fine. Everything is secure! He's outside." How could he not know someone is in the house? Next, he hears a noise and decides to ignore it to head upstairs with his mistress and wife.
It boggles the mind. Jane's backstory about having to be a pageant model and regretting it in order to earn scholarship money was a nice conclusion to her resentment towards men. The follow-up of Jane trying to convince a woman whose clearly into playing the game to dial a phone number to call in the reinforcements that are the Matron Saints seemed silly.
Even if she calls them, they are in a building secured by a top of the line security system. One of the best money has to offer that is designed to be impenetrable and nobody is supposed to be able to get into. Are the Matron Saints now cat-buglers? Do you have high-end explosives to get past the security doors that they carry around in their RV as they answer distress calls and brand men with the pig symbol?
When she does get help and it winds up coming from the factory worker, how did the factory worker manage to get past the two armed security guards we saw earlier and break into the secure building without sounding off the alarm? Is he security installation expert or demolitions expert whose trained how to somehow set off charges to get blast doors down with no noise? If he tried to break in, wouldn't the guards watching the security monitors (presumably), have seen it? If they are not watching the monitors, what are they doing that let the guy get the drop on them?
Another unanswered question, he threw the address of that building into his GPS system and drove straight to it. So it is not an "accident" he is there and being working-collar, there's no way he was invited to hang out with the high-class white-color workers. So how exactly did the factory worker know about this upper-end party? Honestly, I was enjoying the factory workers backstory last episode but now it seems he's been reduced to a lazy writer's tool where he shows up conveniently when/where the storyline needs him to.
The writing is getting worse and worse. Jane's back story is one of the only interesting stories remaining.
Penny's storyline is rather boring this episode. It's mostly her angry and yelling at her brother after he saved her from certain pain/torture/death and helped her get revenge on her abusive ex. They mostly walked thru the woods for long periods to kill screen time. Exciting stuff these writers come up with. Came across some hunters with rifles that can't hit people standing in a spotlight. They can see them well enough to see a small gun in the person's hand and shout "He's got a gun!" but not well enough to aim their rifles and fire at targets standing still. What poor hunters. Thankfully our heroes shoot them in the dark and manage to run away unscathed.
After the excitement when Lila arrives, the rest of the married couples storyline was uninspired dialogue. Followed by an odd scene of someone breaking thru a window an unlocking a door to "get inside" when he had already dived under the conveniently opened '1' security window out of all the windows that accidentally opened when the front door did. Is this a second person entering the house? If so, why does the house just have a random door with no metal on it while all the windows and all the other doors have metal on it? Just to allow a convenient way to enter? The security camera showed someone going thru a window very clearly. Now, a guy is breaking the glass next to a door and not a window. Why? or is there two people in the house?
Finally, after a person is killed...."WE ARE SELLING THE HOUSE! NOW! WE HAVE TO SELL THE HOUSE!" over the location of the nursery. Why don't they just move the nursery elsewhere? Furthermore babies don't have ghost detectors or past-murder detectors built into them. I guess those women though, yar. Totally irrational in the Purge world. Thanks writers for the cliche woman overreaction story trope to create more "drama".
Followed by a frantic "MUST CLEAN THE BLOOD" cliche.
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