The Prisoner Remade on AMC

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The Prisoner Remade on AMC

11-02-2009, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Secretagentnumber6

The new show will never be as good, because you cannot match the real life setting of Port Meirion. That place is so awesome and really exists. Nonetheless I will watch the new one and I figure it will be pretty good.

The new setting is visually suburbia-cliche' good, but in trying to go for an overly allegorical "Everyman vs. Evil Oppressive Psychiatry" theme, they've stripped the specific MI5-paranoia secret-agent-cool out of it.

C'mon, would McGoohan have been half as cool or resourceful if he hadn't really been John Drake (shh!), and had just been some vanity martyr-complexed Jim Caviezel shlub?

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