Series Details & Credits
| USA | Release Date: September 4, 2018 |
Summary:
The TV series based on the movie franchise is set in a small town in a totalitarian America where every year there is a 12-hour period when any crime is legal.
Genre(s):
Drama, Action & Adventure, Horror, Suspense
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Recent Episodes
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S2:E10. 7:01am
Air Date: December 17, 2019
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S2:E9. Hail Mary
Air Date: December 10, 2019
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S2:E8. Before The Sirens
Air Date: December 3, 2019
Positive:
2
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
Sep 5, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
Sep 4, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The series isn’t exactly a thrill ride, at least so far, and isn’t likely to scare many viewers. Instead, 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.
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Sep 3, 2018
IndieWire
Aug 31, 2018
Season 1 Review:
At best, The Purge is a generic, broadly appealing thriller with enough obvious socio-political commentary to act as a welcome guide to the better, more incisive movies. At worst, it’s yet another example of filmmakers treating TV like a garbage dump for rejected movie ideas unworthy of fleshing out for the big screen.
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Sep 4, 2018
Season 1 Review:
In a generous mood one might take all this state-encouraged violence as a metaphor for the way the poor have been systemically kept down by government inaction. But such occasional resonances feel more accidental and inconsistent, or at least beside the sanguinary point. The series rarely rises above the level of cliché. The production is nothing to speak of.
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Sep 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The Purge remains essentially a snuff film. 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. Call it, I dunno, grade-Z nihilism.
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Sep 22, 2021
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Jan 5, 2020
Never seen so much liberal propaganda infused in a tv series before. No simple-minded stereotype is spared in vilifying targeted groups. You would most certainly think the worst of humanity if your only source for worldly experience was this show.
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Seasons & Episodes
- Series Overview
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: October 15, 2019
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S2:E10. 7:01am
Air Date: December 17, 2019
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S2:E9. Hail Mary
Air Date: December 10, 2019
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S2:E8. Before The Sirens
Air Date: December 3, 2019
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S2:E7. Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Air Date: November 26, 2019
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S2:E6. Happy Holidays
Air Date: November 19, 2019
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S2:E5. House Of Mirrors
Air Date: November 12, 2019
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S2:E4. Grief Box
Air Date: November 5, 2019
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S2:E3. Blindspots
Air Date: October 29, 2019
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S2:E2. Everything Is Fine
Air Date: October 22, 2019
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S2:E1. This Is Not A Test
Air Date: October 15, 2019
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Season 2 Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: September 4, 2018
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Season 1 Overview