15 November 2009 8:07 PM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
The six-hour-long miniseries The Prisoner began tonight with two episodes back to back, a trend which will continue both tomorrow and Tuesday, with the show ending Tuesday night. There was mystery aplenty in the first two hours of the series, and I can only guess that the mystery will continue to deepen with each passing night.
A man wakes up in a desert, with fractured memories running through his mind of himself in his apartment. Disoriented, he stands up and begins running around, unsure of where he is or where he should go. Suddenly, he hears gunshots and barking dogs. As he climbs over a ridge, he sees figures standing on a clifftop, shooting at an old man who is fleeing below them, stumbling down rocks and dunes. He falls, and sees our hero. He calls to him for help, and our nameless hero obliges, picking up the man and carrying him to a cave. »
- Sam McPherson
