Hulu delivers the inevitable satire of The Purge with trailer for The Binge

First there was The Purge, and now there’s The Binge—you know, like “binge and purge.” Get it?! There, you’re all caught up on the clever wordplay of the title for the new Hulu original movie, which debuts on August 28. The film takes place in a future where all alcohol and drugs are illegal except for one night a year. And on that night, the United States proves that shit could, indeed, be extremely worse based on some of the imagery in this trailer—specifically the shots of absolute swarms of people getting hammered in the streets as far as the eye can see. If you live in a major city with a bar-heavy downtown overpopulated by tourists and college kids who vomit with abandon on sidewalks, then you are undoubtedly familiar with this scenario. But the trailer for The Binge multiplies it by 100, and when you add our current pandemic to the equation, the whole thing is enough to induce a panic attack: