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RE: The Purge TV Series - Review
I was unaware they were doing a TV show. It took me forever to get around to watching The Purge, and I've only seen the first in the series, but it was pleasantly not the movie I expected going in. A bit heavy-handed in exploring social themes, but much, much better than some brianless torture-porn.
I stopped reading at the spoiler warning, so forgive me if I missed info on this, but I highly recommend you check out at least the first movie. Based on your DVR, we seem to have similar tastes.
Yes, I did go on to say that I think this first episode has convinced me to go back and try watching the films. While the show has the social issues, it has a lot of character building I think which makes it much better than what I personally thought I would expect from the films. Funny you should mention "torture-porn" - that is partially what I had always expected the films would be like. Good to know they aren't.
One caveat, I've only seen the first so I cannot speak to the themes of the others.