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I loved the original version of The Prisoner, so I'm very disappointed that the remake has been getting panned, first in Entertainment Weekly, and now by David Bianculli. Incoherent, pretentious, and self-indulgent, it probably won't be on my DVR. Too bad since the updated shift to the dessert looked intriguing.
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Herc, did you actually watch it or are you just reading "reviews" of it?
I find it to be an outstanding show although I like to know how the main star got such a low number #6. And who is #1 ?
Posted by: Shawn Patrick | November 19, 2009 at 01:49 PM
I haven't seen it. I've read two bad reviews.
Posted by: jeffrey McMahon | November 19, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Yea, I take these professional reviews for what they are worth to me. Nothing.
Take almost any blockbuster movie and you'll find a large number of professional reviewers critical of it.
I'm sure you have discovered good movies or programs that these professional reviews hated.
#2 (the guy from the X-men movies) plays a wonderful part although I don't he will be able to shake off his Xmen character. And if I am not mistaken, one of the actresses in this was Rogue in the X men movies.
Posted by: Shawn Patrick | November 19, 2009 at 04:30 PM
Allow me to apologize up front for being the skunk at the garden party, but...
"Incoherent, pretentious, and self-indulgent"
...strikes me as such a pitch-perfect description of the original series that it might well serve as its epitaph.
With all due respect to Misters McGoohan and McKern, fine actors both, I felt like I needed a sturdy pair of English-made Wellingtons to wade through the BS on the few occasions that I tried to watch that tripe.
Even the most deliberately obscure episode of 'The Avengers' was lucid in comparison.
Posted by: Mike W | November 19, 2009 at 08:15 PM
Be seeing you!
Posted by: Don | November 20, 2009 at 12:45 AM