Not Quite Dead

That’s a wrap on Season 2! Join us for a medley season finale episode where we chat about our ranking of the series, make a Purge bingo game, look at how people on the Internet would handle the Purge, and, of course, do some arts and crafts. Happy hunting!

It was about time for a prequel. After three chronological entries in The Purge series, we have been flung back in time to see how, exactly, the New Founding Fathers of America were able to launch what they called "the experiment." Gerard McMurray helms The First Purge (2018) in a tonally and narratively compelling direction, elevating the series to new heights.

Megan and Cate talk soundtrack, script, and all the other goodies built into the last movie of The Purge series. You don't want to miss this episode (or this movie)!

Music by Zach Pfeifer.

“I turned myself into a minisode, Morty! I’m minisode Riiiiiiiick!”

Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer.

Did YOU vote for The Purge? We know WE sure didn't, but here it is in Election Year, the bleakest of all Purge years. Join Cate and Megan as they follow a sexy she-Bernie through the blood soaked streets of DC in The Purge: Election Year!

Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer.

Ready for a little chaos? Season 2 Episode 2 drops the gals off in Downtown Los Angeles to experience one night of the purge.

Director James DeMonaco is back at the helm for The Purge: Anarchy (2014) to give us a thriller/action/horror sequel that is a genuine improvement on the first entry. Former police sergeant Leo Barnes has an axe to grind on Purge night, but when he runs into an innocent group stranded in the middle of the city, will his morals outweigh his desire for revenge? Megan and Cate are along for the ride!

Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Episode edited by Cate Smith.

Season 2, you wild kids! Join us in the second season as we break down the first movie in the Purge series. The original movie, released in 2013 and directed by James DeMonaco, is an accomplished horror thriller (and sometimes near-satire) film with a great cast on a relatively lean budget.

All crime - including murder! - is legal for one 12 hour period per year. A wealthy suburban family goes into lockdown at their house during the annual purge; at least, until things start to go sideways. The movie is fraught with murderous neighbors, government propaganda, and bad boyfriends. Plan your purge party or maybe just get out of town for a couple of days because we're only one bad election away from our very own purge.

Intro and Outro music by Zach Pfeifer.

Welcome to the Season 1 Finale of Not Quite Dead! To cap off the season, we have a Very Special Episode™ with fun segments all about our favorite aspects of the Saw series. Thanks to the creators of the Saw movies and to all of our listeners for making the first season so great.

You thought it had ended with Saw 3D (ironically AKA Saw: The Final Chapter), but alas, one decade later we were back at the theaters in to watch the 2017 installment of the series directed by The Spierig Brothers and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. Jigsaw has been dead for ten years but a new crop of victims in vicious torture traps have been discovered. The detectives are on the case, and only time will tell if they can save the newest group of victims.

Join Megan and Cate as they dissect the last (for now) Saw movie. Featuring some serious narrative retconning and some of our favorite tropes, this movie makes us ask: Is this a Saw movie for the diehard fans or just for newbies? Only you can decide.

Intro and outro music by Zach Pfeifer.

This time it's Saw...in your face! The movie of many names - Saw 3D, Saw VII, Saw: The Final Chapter - is here. The (ostensible) end of the franchise has Kevin Greutert back at the helm to have a little fun while fulfilling his duty to see to the ends of Detective Hoffman, hapless Jill Tuck, and another cadre of unwitting victims.

Listen to Megan and Cate's breakdown of the 2010 horror movie and all of its camera-splashing bloody hijinks. Hoffman may be the Saw series' own Michael Meyers, but this is the final chapter...for now.

Intro and outro music by Zach Pfeifer.

Oh my! In Saw VI, most of our main characters are dead, except for our gruesome twosome. Detective Hoffman and Jill Tuck are bound to continue carrying on Jigsaw's demented legacy in this 2009 jaunt from first-time director Kevin Greutert.

Join us as we plunge into the depths of the Saw series to encounter typical Saw fare: flashbacks, traps that are feats of mechanical engineering, and a handful of surprises.  The biggest twist of all? It's the only Saw movie to take place in a zoo!

Intro and outro music by Zach Pfeifer.