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Jan 9, 2009 
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I regret that I was never able to complete (really, even to start) my plan to blog my way through all seventeen episodes of The Prisoner. I link to the first post to mark my shame, but also to show my appreciation of this program.
Nonetheless, I maintain that this 1960s show, dressed as a shallow James Bond spy series, where the real themes were paranoia, alienation, and the reduction of man to a cog in a machine, is the best television show of all time, rivaled only by the BBC’s production of I, Claudius. In anticipation of the upcoming remake, starring James “Jesus” Caviezel of “The Passion of the Christ” as Number Six, AMC has made all seventeen episodes of the original show available online, in high quality video with no cuts.
If you’ve never seen this show, you owe it to yourself to give it a try before the remake. I actually respect Caviezel’s acting, and the work of some of the people behind the new version, but you can’t remake perfection. Nothing on television today approaches The Prisoner, though shows like Lost do well to ape it.
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