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Remarkably like the 60s show The Prisoner

posted 14 years ago by annakillick
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The show's pilot aired last night in New Zealand. I have an extreme 'cheesiness' alarm that actually didn't go off! I loved it! I felt the wife was a bit moany and overplayed but enjoyed the Truman-show like setting and felt Alec Ross was believable and likeable. Star of the show was definitely the first Kyle though. Brilliant performance by a talented young actor.

Very remarkably like the 60s show The Prisoner - same premise; guy wakes up in what looks like his house on an island he can;t get off and where ppl know where he is at all times. A LOT of weird stuff and confusion goes down. I loved The Prisoner too.

Can't wait to see more!

[–] grapplernz 14 years ago

Did you catch the remake of The Prisoner? I thought it reminded me of that.

But I enjoyed it more than the first episode of The Cult.

Hey Ugly Bugly! Did Adolf Zitler launch a Zitskrieg across your face?

[–] StaySaneInsideInsanity 14 years ago

How many people actually watched The Cult?

I saw one episode and that was enough for me.

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[–] grapplernz 14 years ago

I watched the entire series, was pretty disappointed at the end.

Hey Ugly Bugly! Did Adolf Zitler launch a Zitskrieg across your face?

[–] annakillick 11 years ago

Yes, I did see some and agree!

[–] hollywoodruffstar 14 years ago

The Prisoner always knew who he was, even when the Village leaders tried to break him. Alec is trying to figure out who he is. But the community is just as creepy and sinister.

[–] cwa_wrappedinplastic 14 years ago

I was thinking the same,that the show has a Prisoner vibe to it. Big fan of The Prisoner (The Patrick McGoohan original,not the terrible 2009 remake starring James Caviezel and Ian McKellen) fav episodes The Schizoid Man,The General,& A. B. and C.Im enjoying This is not my life so far,havent missed an episode,better than i expected it to be.

[–] straker-1 14 years ago

The series is known as 'This Is Not The Prisoner' round these parts, as the wholesale plagiarism is painfully obvious. This supposedly brilliant drama is just a Frankenstein monster of much better shows - The Prisoner (more the remake than the McGoohan one), Lost, Nowhere Man, FlashForward (OK, that one's not good), and so on and so on. The outright theft of premises, format and
even characters is not so much as hinted at, let alone acknowledged. Tonight's episode, which is still playing, is so derivative it contains stolen *camera shots* from Lost.

[–] daninbigd 14 years ago

That's a bit like saying that the "Cosby Show" was a ripoff of "All in the Family" because they were comedies about nuclear families who lived in New York.

There aren't a lot of entirely new premises out there that still lend themselves to a story people will connect with.

I've watched the Prisoner and Lost and while there are some similarities, this show has gone off in an entirely different direction.

[–] gallae 8 years ago

Just watched this, six years later. Am familiar with the original Prisoner and and the US remake. They all share the scenario of a town you can't get out of at an unknown location, but that's mostly it. The UK version had different themes to each episode whereas this has the same theme each week, and the plot is developed steadily over the season.

But I enjoyed all of these.

Laura Ess