One poster, trying to make sense of the series, wrote:

"At the start of the miniseries, the Village appeared to be sinister, but at the end we learn it was intended as an act of kindness by 2 and his wife. His wife's altered state of consciousness was able to bring a sense of purpose and happiness to all the broken people (such as 313) in the real world that Michael helped locate. When 2 expressed joy over enlarging the Village, he did not see it as imprisonment but freedom for new members of the Village."

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Yes, a real sense of happiness in the form of a giant white ball that suffocates and kills you if you try to escape. A real sense of happiness to watch your child disappear in a sinkhole, to have your name taken away and being known as only a number,to kill your gay lover and then yourself, to be sitting in a diner which is bombed, to live in identical houses with no purpose under the maniacal leadership of a clearly unstable person, to be strapped to a gurney kicking and screaming while being taken for "therapy," to have every sense of reality stripped from you, to be made to fall in love and then being told it was a chemical sham, to have a club of debauchery as the only entertainment, to have children in a classroom being taught to conform and spy on each other, to create a Stalin like society where everyone spies on everyone else.

Oh yeah!!! An act of kindness, alright. And here comes recruited #6 to take things over, so that everything continues to run so smoothly.