Home sick. Can’t read. Just watch TV. The best way to handle it: Watching the entire 17-episode cycle of The Prisoner available in their entirety on amctv.com.
Opening titles:
It’s one of the best shows to have ever run. Period. But some of the episodes, I have to say, suck. They’re bloated and pretentious and poorly written. I even say that about the lauded final episode. Sorry, but all of that falderal made no sense. but then again, I’m not a person devoted to figuring it out. By the way, “the village” is a real place that you can actually visit.
Stole these additional links from Wikipedia:
- Prisoner Appreciation Society
- The Prisoner in the Encyclopedia of Television
- The Prisoner article at British Film Institute Screen Online
- The Prisoner Online — Archive information, news and discussion forum.
- Retrospective article on The Prisoner
- “Why ‘The Prisoner’ Endures”
by John Fund, Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2009
- The Prisoner Youtube Channel
