I think the problem is that it’s a remake of The Prisoner that had very little to do with The Prisoner.

I think the problem is with imagining that it’s a remake rather than a reimagining. It’s not taking The Prisoner as if it were Shakespeare, recasting it and redoing it with new actors and set pieces. People don’t do that outside of theater these days, and sometimes they don’t do it in theater.

It’s like every modern movie that’s “based on Jane Austin” that doesn’t involve period clothing. You can spend a lot of time getting upset that the plot is only vaguely related to the original, or you can look at the new piece and try to take it on its own merits.

I’m not saying the new miniseries was perfect either, I think it had some issues in the editing and holes that I think they’d have done better stretching the thing out for one more episode and rewriting the end a bit. But it is a pretty neat bit of surrealism starring at least one good actor.

Besides, it had Hayley Atwell’s breasts in it. That’s enough to give ANY show a peek, in my opinion.

@ Mistermook
I think the problem is that it’s a remake of The Prisoner that had very little to do with The Prisoner. It’s just another instance of Hollywood taking an older piece of intellectual property and ruining/updating it for modern audiences. I would say it never works but occasionally it does.

Oh. My. God.

I think the writers, director, and producers need to be sent off to a little seaside village in Wales, never to be seen again.