‘The Binge’ Review: Vince Vaughn Plays Chaperone as Teens Test Their Limits in Hulu Comedy

variety.com:

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA weirdly tame, let’s-all-get-wasted riff on “The Purge” from the team behind such solid youth-focused comedies as “Banana Split” and “Big Time Adolescence,” Hulu original “The Binge” imagines an alternate America where all drugs and alcohol are illegal, except for a 12-hour window each year, during which time anything goes.

If the setup sounds more fun than the execution, that’s because “The Binge” doesn’t seem to recognize how or why people indulge in such substances to begin with, treating intoxication as the punchline rather than the setup for what should have been a more subversive satire.If only the country’s Puritan forefathers, or the teetotalers behind Prohibition, could see where their influence has.