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The Prisoner

Name: The Prisoner
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2009-11-15
Rating: 5.53

★ 5,5 /10 (99 Votes)

2009 EN 1 Seasons

Overview

A man wakes up in a new place - a place he doesn't recognize, a place where people have numbers instead of names, a place called "The Village" where all traces of his former life are renounced as delusions.

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First air date

15/11/2009

Votes

Popularity

4.5

You only think you're free.

Genres

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Created by

Bill Gallagher

Networks

AMC

Language

Last air date

2009-11-17

Episodes

Episode runtime

60 min

Website

www.amctv.com

Miniseries

6 episodes • 2009 • ⭐ 5,4

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kaf…

Jim Caviezel

6 / Michael

Ian McKellen

2 / Curtis

Hayley Atwell

4-15 / Lucy

Ruth Wilson

313

Jamie Campbell Bower

11-12

Lennie James

147

Rachael Blake

Original Soundtrack

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## **The Prisoner (2009) Review: A Pointless, Soulless Imitation** To call this 2009 miniseries a remake of Patrick McGoohan's legendary 1967 masterpiece is an insult. It is not a reimagining; it is a defacement. Where the original was a brilliant, surreal, and fiercely individualistic critique of Cold War paranoia and societal control, this version is a tepid, confused, and utterly boring soap opera that completely misses the point. ### A Hollow Village, a Hollow Plot The core premise remains: a man, known only as Six (Jim Caviezel), wakes up in a bizarre, isolated community called T…

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