Tockinit not horrible nor great

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

cronostitan The best ever produced TV show. The most copied TV show around the world. The most dreamlike, most symbolic TV show, while being very realistic. The most scandalous TV show. The TV show in the success never seen. The most relevant TV show. The most disturbing TV show ever made. The most current TV show; in the theme concerning an advanced dehumanization more true than never. The most enigmatic TV show. The most Kafka's TV show. The most suggestive TV show. The TV show which knew how to see farther than its time,period.We can go further with the qualifiers of these episodes which tell the eviction of a secret agent on an island and inside a village the numerous opportunities, which is a kind of golden prison, on which however nobody have ever escaped; and then his attempts as numbers 2 - all more deceitful some than the others - try to extort him precious information helped by diverse threats, while continues the life of the village and it while number 6 cross other numbers, those sometimes very close to him.An enormous cult in any case.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The Prisoner, 1967, A life-long English secret agent abruptly resigns from his job and is kidnapped into a strange fantasy village on a isolated seashore of an anonymous country. The village staff work their vast interrogation techniques on the X-secret agent or #6 to find out why he left his job and reveal all his mission secrets.*Special Stars- Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Unit Production Manager: Bernard Williams.*Theme- Man will not be controlled when his freedom is at stake. *Trivia/location/goofs- British, TV series of 17 episodes. Portmeirion, Wales is where The Village is. The location was built by an eccentric artist and building salvager from the 17th century. Every episode has another new actor playing the role of evil antagonist against the show's hero, #6. The Rover is a large weather balloon. *Emotion- An excellent TV series for action, drama and to explore real modern societal issues through story telling. This TV show takes you on a mind-bending trip that pushes your imagination to the limit. Take an unforgettable journey to The Village, run by sophisticated 'jailers' whose one mission is to 'break' the new inhabitants and find out everything the inhabitants/villagers know about their recent top-secret government jobs of spying. It takes you alongside Britain's best secret agent, John Drake or #6 men whose missions are to preserve Britian from all manner of threats and by any means necessary. This film has become a cult classic with discussions about it's minutia and plot meanings of this multi-layered thought provoking TV show. Ahead of it's time interesting. A Blog telling about Patrick McGoohan's later in life dealings with a TV writer, just before McGoohan's death. LINK:http://www.2ndwindproductions.org/peopleilike/patrick-mcgoohan

tobydale I've resisted writing a review for The Prisoner for years. Why -? because even though I have watched this series end to end at least a dozen times in the last 45 years; I still don't know where to start.Indeed - I was one of the lucky ones who as a 10 year old was allowed to stay up late to watch The Prisoner during it's first screening back in the 1960's. It was then and remains today some of the most remarkable and groundbreaking television ever made. It must be seen.Even though I have started this review - I still don't know where to start! There is no point in looking at the detail over a 17 episode series, so perhaps the best place to start is with a big picture; The Prisoner deals with issues of Man-kind as a social creature in a complex age. In this age the concept of "the individual" who exercises 'real' choices is lost - subsumed by Education; what is taught and who decides its relevance. Subsumed by Politics; what are the interests of those you are asked to vote for. Subsumed by Technology; is the technology my tool, or am I the tool of technology. Subsumed by Society; who sets the norms, who behaves acceptably and who does not, what, indeed is 'acceptable'? Subsumed by Consumerism; what do I need, why do I have to buy this, or this? The Prisoner encounters and has to confront these themes and find his own way to escape from them. The Village is the location and epicenter for every aspect of the individual that is subsumed. The Prisoners' quest is to escape. We join and share in his quest.There are many other deep themes going on in this wonderful and thought provoking series, but the deepest and most powerful of all is "Trust"; what and who can I trust? For the Prisoner, the ONLY person he can trust is HIMSELF, and there are times, for all his strength, when the Prisoner cannot even trust himself. The Village uses every muscle, stretches every sinew to separate the Prisoner from his own self-identity; to reduce him, actually and literally to a 'number'. It's brilliant stuff, because it causes US to question "who am I"?, "Where am I"? "By what definition am I free"? Brilliant stuff.Only by constantly challenging, constantly questioning, constantly feeling for the boundary, constantly and consistently reasserting his individualism, does the Prisoner manage to retain his self-image. The Prisoner is a primer for Everyman living in the modern age - a set of sign-posts that say; "TAKE CARE"! Keep control of your own identity, think what you are doing - don't blithely accept everything you are told and you won't become a number....Phew! I've done it! Encapsulated 45 years of reflection into 6 short paragraphs. Why 6 do you wonder?

dimplet The Prisoner was never intended to be a permanent TV series. The original plan was for something like six episodes, but it was extended mid-stream. No TV executive cancel led it; it was Patrick McGoohan's baby, and his decision. At least that's what I've read. Makes sense. Do you real think you could get seven seasons out of this theme, and maintain the quality? No. 6 joins a bridge club, No. 6 gets a dog, No. 6 gets married, No. 6 has grandchildren ....The series was so eerie because there was an element of truth to it, perhaps more than we knew at the time. With the trials of high level British officials for spying in the 1960s, the question "Whose side are you on?" was very real. There may have been an actual "village" for spies, of some sort, and the fellow sitting at the desk in the credits when McGoohan turns in his resignation may have been the connection. There certainly were "villages" for training spies.It should be noted that the Danger Man series pre-dates the James Bond franchise, and, along with Secret Agent, suggests some inside knowledge of the spy game. And then there's Ice Station Zebra in 1968. Ummm, wasn't this stuff supposed to be secret? How did McGoohan and company know? There really were American spy satellites sending back canisters of film, beginning in 1960. Of course, the Russians must have known, so it was only secret to the American people, I guess. Watch Nova: Sputnik Declassified, the documentary about America's Project Corona, the real basis of Ice Station Zebra. The Prisoner is the heir to George Orwell's distopian Nineteen Eight- Four. To watch this today, after the end of the Cold War, it might seem quaint. But then consider China, their long history of brainwashing, and their modern pattern of arresting political prisoners, who are then released as meek and apologetic as lambs. I'll bet you could get arrested for bringing DVDs of The Prisoner in to China. Patrick McGoohan was an extraordinary actor. He was able to project immense intelligence without hardly doing anything. And what makes The Prisoner so fascinating is his ability to convey a sense of his steely strong willpower, his ability to maintain his sense of self despite everything they could throw at him. The Prisoner is British television at its best, and, in my opinion, the finest television series ever created.