Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 18, 2009

The Prisoner Finale: Now It Can Be Told

By James Poniewozik

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Spoilers for the finale of AMC’s The Prisoner, which if you cared enough about you have already watched but remain spoilers nonetheless, after the jump:

 

 

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 16, 2009

The Morning After: Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other

By James Poniewozik

  I said my piece on the AMC “reimagining” of The Prisoner last week, so I don’t plan on doing any nightly blow-by-blow. But if you stuck around to watch it, let us know what you thought—and whether you saw the original. (Not that that should matter—the new version, I think, should be judged on [...]

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Tuned In+November 13, 2009

Dead Tree Alert: The Prisoner

By James Poniewozik

  In this week’s print TIME, I review The Prisoner, which I found pretty to look at, but pretentious and incoherent. Which, since you’re probably going to ask, is not how I would describe the 1967 original, for all its surreality. Some of the problems with the new version stem from the way it tries [...]

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Tuned In+September 29, 2009

AMC Sets Date to Release Its Prisoner

By James Poniewozik

AMC’s remake of The Prisoner is debuting on Nov. 15! Yay! It’ll air two hours a night for three nights straight! Yay! It’ll be preceded by a marathon of The Matrix movies! Ya— um… [confused muttering]. My yay!-ing, by the way, is based strictly on anticipation; I haven’t seen any of the remake yet. But [...]