Amazon Prime brought this to me recently while I was dog sitting at my son's house. My tour in Vietnam, May 67-Jan 68, bifurcated the episodes for me, but it has always been my favorite TV Series! This is what television programming should be. Tons of brilliant London theatre actors & Welsh inhabitants of a still very real village as guests & extras provide both quaint & disorienting psychological simulacra for McGoogan raging against what?! An intelligence driven mandatory existence that made 1984 look like a garden tea party. 1960s was the decade to drop out, but McGoogan's character had no clue where his free fall would take him. A bad trip of beyond excellent TV production quality & technique that is always moving well beyond MACH 1. I watched ALL of the episodes offered & each was a tour d 'force of great dialogue ("You're paranoid!" replies McGoogan's nightmare malevolent prison warden after he accuses her of multiple homicides--that he both witnessed & personally barely avoided!) Very dark British humor but no shadows in a gleaming seascape enshrouding a Disney acid trip of the (cough!) happiest place -- on Earth? It's your call. In my experience it isn't necessary to watch all of these gems in sequence, over several weeks or like I did, with my favorite grand-dog amidst feedings, walks & naps. Better than I remembered it! Enjoy!
Review of The Prisoner
The Prisoner
(1967–1968)
It takes a DaDa Welsh village. And Patrick McGoogan to make an icon!
7 October 2019