The Purge

HUGE SPOILER WARNING.

The Purge Season 1 is both really good and extremely frustrating, 
through the first two thirds of the series I was convinced it was one of the best horror shows ever made and that it more than successfully added to the lore and expanded upon the themes present in all the films in the franchise but then it takes a nose dive in literally the last two episodes and makes decisions that cheapened the characters it set up in favour of the usual forced and on the nose social commentary that's the downfall of a lot of the films. 

The most compelling thing about the series is that it introduces the audience to concepts that I'd never considered for how different people would react to the night. There is a suicide cult who offer themselves to purgers as a sacrifice, we get to see more of the NFFA and how the wealthy are inducted into purging, we see first responders, militant feminists who protect women on the night, corrupt misogynistic businessmen, hitmen for hire and my favourite of them all, we get to see how a somewhat moral person would purge, by becoming a vigilante.

Those are some really cool ideas, the last one especially, but then the writers decide to literally spit in the face of anyone who liked that character when they reveal them as a stereotypical racist who "wants his country back". They decide to single handedly destroy the best thing the series had going for it, for more of the same "white man bad" social commentary that honestly I'm pretty tired of. 

Here's the thing, I'm fine with making it about classism, it makes sense, but when you purposefully do a bait and switch with your best character to make them a petty vindictive loser, you've lost me. Not to mention he was the only white person in the entire show who wasn't a villain. Just give us one hero, that's all I was asking for. Just one. Or even if you insist on making him a villain, please be more original, it's never awful or anything but it just wasn't as good as it was up until that point. 

The positive is that the actor playing him was good enough to also play a convincing villain, but it was a real let down. 

Other than that the show is really strong, it has everything that I enjoy about the films but is over ten hours long. 
Overall, it's issues aside I can definitely recommend it if you enjoy the film series.

As far as season 2 goes I didn't finish it because of how bad it was so I can't write a full review, but I can tell you why I gave up on it. 
It's too stupid for its own good, too slow paced, the characters were boring and the acting ranged from fine to awful and it tries to make a point about violence being addictive without the writers actually understanding human psychology and how committing violent acts affects the brain, (they try to say that violent acts release dopamine making people progressively addicted to violence) this is complete and utter nonsense. 

The biggest problem the Purge franchise has as a whole is often it is written by not particularly bright people who are trying to tackle incredibly complex subjects that they don't really have the intelligence to understand fully.