The Prisoner : “It Means What It Is”

The Prisoner is one of those rare television series that is both completely rooted in its particular time and yet somehow timeless. It’s 1960’s Orwell meets Sargent Pepper style speaks to themes of authoritarianism, social atomization, and malicious technocracy just as well today as when it was made. And while it’s been analyzed from every angle in the intervening decades, I’d be remiss if I didn’t contribute something to discussion of The Prisoner.

Collin Cleary’s essay on The Prisoner can be read here:
https://counter-currents.com/2014/06/patrick-mcgoohans-the-prisoner/

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00:00 Intro
02:00 Antimodernism
04:30 Politics and Subversion
06:55 Mandatory Fun and Pathologized Dissent
09:00 Rules and Suspicions
11:15 It Means What It Is
13:50 Once Upon a Time . . .
15:00 Fallout
18:57 Looking Back