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The Purge - Season 1
Following the successful achievement that the films' series has reached, The Purge concocts a series version which demonstrates various horrendous stories from this day where the tumult spread as all wrongdoings are took into account twelve hours and you can't call the police or ambulance or anything.
31 October 1963, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
September 04, 2018
And in the first three episodes, following the dictates of basic cable, it dials back both the social commentary and the splatter-happy action and violence from their cinematic levels.
September 04, 2018
Faster-paced, more diverse and more pointed in its critique of American bloodlust than its cinematic counterparts.
September 04, 2018
USA and DeMonaco have somehow found a way to stretch out these tales over 10 episodes, which is about six more than feels sustainable.
September 04, 2018
The Purge was never going to be thoughtful enough to become one of those series...and would've done far better if it gleefully leaned into its nonsensical side and exhibited a little self-awareness.
September 04, 2018
It settles into a creepy, occasionally absurdly funny dystopian drama with some chase scenes and twists, which is a pretty smart way for the franchise to evolve.
August 31, 2018
The fact that it's also clumsily made and rife with mediocre performances seems almost beside the point in the context of how pointless this thing is in the first place.
September 04, 2018
Call me crazy, but it just may turn out that 10 hours of gory slaughter unconstrained by even the vaguest intellectual or moral framework is going to be irredeemable crap no matter how many pretty sociopolitical ribbons you put on it.
September 04, 2018
I can't say that The Purge TV show is wholly incredible as a standalone piece of entertainment. But it does a lot of things that the film franchise can't, and has a fun time making it all happen.
August 31, 2018
So hot on the heels of the other movies, as well as the impassioned state of the country as a whole, it feels too much like an afterthought.
August 31, 2018
To say television deserves better is obvious, so instead let's remember "The Purge" deserves better, too.
