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Highly recommended. This show was brilliant and weird. People were so obsessed with it, that when the final episode aired, with its, uh, interesting ending, ac

• Animats 10y ago
  Yes, the final episode makes little if any sense.
  • mjklin 10y ago
    There were huge complaints from viewers. Interesting write-up here: http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/the_prisoner/ http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/the_prisoner/ Be seeing you.
  • leoc 10y ago
    Not so: people hate it because it goes meta (to a greater extent than most of the other episodes), because it retreats into allegory and humour and fourth-wall-breaking rather than providing a clever resolution on the spy-fiction level; but everything in it makes sense. McGoohan, evidently, had a Catholic attitude of fundamental pessimism about the human condition. He believed that the root problem with human society was human nature, and he didn't share a Randian belief that autarkic superman individualists were blameless, or a Star Trek utopian-socialist belief that the future would raise up a New Man to sort everything out, or a conviction that everything will be groovy once the Revolution comes. Given that, there's basically no one else that Number 1 could be (notice that Pris. doesn't look very surprised to find out), and no other way the series could end (nothing changes, basically).