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Showing posts with label Patrick McGoohan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patrick McGoohan. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 August 2024

Scanners (1981)

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 "You murdered the future!" Before I get into it... yes, I haven't blogged for about a week and there won't be much for th...
Thursday, 1 August 2019

The Prisoner: Fall Out

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“You are the only individual.” That was... a lot to digest, utterly glorious and at the same time quite, quite mad. On the surface this ma...
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

The Prisoner: Once Upon a Time

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”Why don’t you resign?” The Prisoner has never really cared much for realism; it’s full of surreal imagery and relies on it, being a pro...
Friday, 26 July 2019

The Prisoner: The Girl Who Was Death

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"My name... is death!" Well... at least the game of cat and mouse and the sequence with all the booby traps was entertaining. I ...
Thursday, 25 July 2019

The Prisoner: Living in Harmony

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“Welcome to Harmony, stranger...” Argh. I want to like this episode, I really do. It tries to do something brave and left field, and I...
Monday, 22 July 2019

The Prisoner: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling

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"For once I am dictating!" Well, I can’t like them all. I know nothing of Prisoner fandom; is this episode disliked? This epi...
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Thursday, 18 July 2019

The Prisoner: A Change of Mind

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"Unmutual!" Wow. This is actually quite a harrowing episode that goes to some very dark and totalitarian places, exploring the n...
Tuesday, 16 July 2019

The Prisoner: It's Your Funeral

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"I can think of better ways to die..." "And better causes to die for." Well, here’s yet another very good episode in...
Monday, 15 July 2019

The Prisoner: Hammer into Anvil

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”Each man has his breaking point, you know...” This is possibly the finest episode yet. A simple plot- Number Six is outraged at the sadis...
Monday, 8 July 2019

The Prisoner: Checkmate

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"It 's not allowed- the cult of the individual!" A weird but very interesting episode this time, with subtle exploration of ...
Friday, 5 July 2019

The Prisoner: Dance of the Dead

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“Questions are a burden to others. Answers are a prison for oneself.” A bit of a downturn in quality this episode; it isn’t bad, far from ...
Thursday, 4 July 2019

The Prisoner: Many Happy Returns

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”Where is this?” Seven episodes in and I’m still fascinated in what plots can be got out of such a seemingly limited premise. This episode...
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Wednesday, 3 July 2019

The Prisoner: The General

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“Nothing’s impossible in this place.” Another intriguing episode this time, with yet another very ‘60s and very British view of freedom an...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019

The Prisoner: The Schizoid Man

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" Your job, Number Twelve, is to impersonate him. Take his identity away." This episode is an extraordinary example of instituti...
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Monday, 24 June 2019

The Prisoner: Free for All

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"Very good technique. Where did you get him? "The Civil Service. He adapted immediately." I know it's been a while si...
Thursday, 6 June 2019

The Prisoner: A. B. and C

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"This is a dreamy party..." Well, that was certainly different. I suppose this is early in the series, it's too soon to ha...
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The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben

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"I don't want a man of fragments..." I’ve asked around and ummed and ahhed and done a bit of reading to see what the best or...
Wednesday, 5 June 2019

The Prisoner: Arrival

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"We're all pawns, my dear. Your move." This blog started out with Doctor Who and then Blake's 7 ; I think it's time...
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Monday, 13 November 2017

Braveheart (1995)

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“The trouble with Scotland is it's full of Scots...” I’ve seen this film a fair few times but not for many years, and certainly not ...
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