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The Joy of Six
By Kyle | November 13, 2009
Check out the intriguing pilot of AMC’s six-hour miniseries “The Prisoner” this weekend. I liked “V” better but this series is more broadly philosophical and less topical than “V,” with overtones of Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (the characters, such as the hero, “Six,” played by Jim Caviezel and the villain, “Two” –Ian McKellen– have numbers rather than names). One problem with the show, about a guy who wakes up marooned in an eerie desert village and can’t quite remember who he is or what he’s doing but is pretty sure he wants to get out– is that it seems to be heading for one big reveal and the intermediate reveals aren’t that interesting. For instance, episode two, which introduces a new character who is kind of bland and anyway is written out pretty quickly, seems to be just marking time. Also, by the end of episode two the habit of characters risking everything to give Six a little clue–this in a universe of total surveillance and ruthless punishment spearheaded by Two–has already gone a little stale. And the white globe/blob that rushes in like a free safety to knock you on your backside every time you get too close to the border of the Village is pretty hokey. Maybe the critics’ DVD I saw, which did not have a final sound mix, wasn’t final in the SFX department either.
But the series has a snazzy visual style and a tantalizing mystery so I’m going to watch the last four episodes anyway. Probably. (By the way, I never saw the original.)
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November 14th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Freedom has been a non subject in the media for far too long. If nothing else, the Obamanation has jump started the discussion.