Imprisoned
As a fan of the original series, which spoke so directly to my rebellious teenage self, I was looking forward to the remake of “The Prisoner” running on AMC this week. Sadly, it’s unbearably bad. Really, truly, tediously, awful. I would go on about why, but this fellow has already enumerated all the reasons, with one exception: There’s nothing at stake. No stakes = no conflict = no story. In its place: dolorous music accompanying logy acting. If there are terrorists in the village, I’m rooting for them.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am
One continuity issue I found with the new show is that the old man at the start of the show was in an old show costume, the loafers, white pants, and black jacket with white trim. At no point after that do we see any residents of the village wearing those clothes.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I took that as an homage. All it did was make me hunger for the original.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
The original is available on DVD from Amazon for around $50.