Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – The Prisoner thinks it’s Star Trek (or the other way around)
(Episode 14 – “Living in Harmony” & Episode 15 – “The Girl Who Was Death”)
Remember in my last Prisoner diary post, when I noted how things started to switch gears? It turns out I was right, as things still haven’t switched back to the way they used to be. Rather than episode after episode of watching Number Six in the same ol’ Village, going about his business (or at least making it appear so), the locales have changed and the methods the new Number Twos are using to attempt to extract information from Six are growing more absurd … or are they ingenious?
As with all of the Virgin Diaries, I’m not going to get into the exact details and plots of each episode — if you’re reading these, chances are you’ve seen the series (or at least these episodes) already. If you haven’t, then shame on you, you spoiler-peeking fool!
Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – The scary white balloons are suddenly named
(Episode 8 – “The Schizoid Man” & Episode 9 – “Many Happy Returns”)
The series is definitely getting better. As I said before, what’s neat about The Prisoner is that each episode, so far, is self-contained. For the most part, nothing we’ve learned from previous episodes carries over into the present, other than the general premise. You could catch the pilot episode and then skip a whole slew of episodes within the series, then hop right in here, at the eighth and ninth episodes, and not feel out of place. Well, “out of place” is a relative term when it comes to The Prisoner.
Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – Number Six gives one Number Two a one-two punch
(Episode 6 – “A, B and C” & Episode 7 – “The General”)
I fully stand by my assessment of the episode “The Chimes of Big Ben” being the episode where The Prisoner Blew the Hatch. Since then, the show’s continued to get better. What I especially admire about The Prisoner is that it doesn’t try to be something it’s not. There’s no secondary or even tertiary plots thrown in to confuse or bore the hell out of us. No romances, no parallel character plots to follow. It’s just about Number Six and how he’s trying to get the heck out of The Village, while the Guardians try to extract information out of him.
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