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I haven’t been watch­ing many movies lately because I’ve been stuck on anime and minis­eries. My favorite minis­eries lately is The Pris­oner. It’s about a guy who wakes up in ‘the vil­lage’ where every­one thinks there is no place in the world other than that place. The pro­tag­o­nist, played by Jim Caviezel, has pieces of mem­o­ries of another place but he doesn’t know any other name than the num­ber he has been given. The entire com­mu­nity, is run by one man, num­ber two, played by Ian McK­ellen. In the vil­lage every­one is a num­ber. What unfolds over the six-part series is the pris­oner try­ing to escape, insist­ing that he is from some­where else while the leader of the vil­lage makes no small effort to con­vince him and oth­ers that may be like him, otherwise.

This Pris­oner minis­eries is a remake of sorts of a 60’s British series that is quite famous but I have never seen it. The minis­eries was aired on AMC and will be aired again this month. It’s also avail­able on Net­flix. When the series starts, it was imme­di­ately clear that there was a lot more going on that was obvious. I thor­ough enjoyed this series and tried very hard to fig­ure it all out as I went through it but except for a few points was unable to. That’s the mark of a good story for me.  I watched the begin­ning of it with friends and they were quite taken with it right away. It’s too bad they didn’t make this an ongo­ing series. I def­i­nitely would have watched it. I give it a four out of five marks. I think you’ll enjoy it.