USA and Syfy Spoof QVC to Hawk Must-Have Purge Night Items for Their New Purge TV Series

The satirical campaign is as ‘over the top’ as the franchise itself

There’s nothing like a little shopping to help prepare for a big holiday event, especially when that holiday is Purge Night.

As USA and Syfy prepare to debut their new The Purge series, a spinoff of the hit horror film franchise which premieres next Tuesday on both networks, they have devised a satirical campaign centering around holiday preparations, including a QVC-like network called Purge Shopping Channel.

The series, like the four Purge films, takes place in a world where America ruled by a totalitarian political party, and for 12 hours each year—known as Purge Night—all crime, including murder, is legal.

“Purge Night is such a simple, yet outlandish, concept.

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