Hey Numbersix:

[moses]

I'd vote for you over the incumbent #2. Just wanted you to know.

 

[moses]

Presumably the same excellent show that I missed. 1967's The Prisoner. I'm only a few episodes deep, but it is a pretty exceptional bit of programming.

 

[cynyr]

Six for Two!

 

[dervis]

Amazing show. Ending was less than I wanted it to be. Still certainly worth a watch

 

[numbersix]

Thanks moses - glad to hear you are watching it. It can be a bit heavy handed at times, but worth the effort. Hope you enjoy it.

Amazing show. Ending was less than I wanted it to be. Still certainly worth a watch

Patrick McGoohan left England because of the public's intense negative reaction to ending, but he said, even in later years, he wouldn't have changed it.
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The ending was completely unexpected but made sense in a way. On the surface this was a spy thriller, but really it was a surrealist drama, a sort of "Hero's Journey". McGoohan was a very spiritual person in real life and my understanding of the ending was that no. 1 was No. 6's ego. He was being kept prisoner by himself. This is a very Eastern way of thinking (Buddhism and some Hindu sects say that the ego is a false construct that keeps us imprisoned). This was also the late 60s which was a time of great spiritual upheaval. Which I think is why so many in England were resentful of the ending - they thought all along they were watching a James Bond type spy thriller, not an esoteric commentary on the human ego.