Nitpicking: The Prisoner

About Nitpicking: The Prisoner

Where we take the avant-garde 60s television series, look at it with jaded eyes, and then tell you everything that's wrong with it.

Publisher

Neil McGarry and Daniel Ravipinto

Category

comedy · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Aug 2021

Latest episode

19 Sept 2021

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Sept 2021

   Episode 8: Once Upon a Time and Fall Out

   We bring the experiment to a close with the utterly incomprehensible two-part conclusion to The Prisoner, and lay out what comes next.

2. 

   12 Sept 2021

   Episode 7: Many Happy Returns

   We discuss Number Six's silent birthday and the wardrobe of Mrs. Butterworth with our guest Tim Allen, who has learned how different The Prisoner is this time around without the help of pizza and weed.

3. 

   5 Sept 2021

   Episode 6: The General

   We discuss education, smoldering gay glances, and how to destroy computers in a Star-Trekian way with guest commentator Cynthia Taylor.

4. 

   29 Aug 2021

   Episode 5: A. B. and C.

   All the problems of The Prisoner on full display as we examine the episode that broke guest commentator Jill Neff.

5. 

   22 Aug 2021

   Episode 4: The Chimes of Big Ben

   Guest commentator Piers Marchant talks with us about the historical and artistic context of The Prisoner as the now-indoctrinated Number Six tries to escape the Village via Art.

6. 

   15 Aug 2021

   Episode 3: Dance of the Dead

   We realize the Prisoner is more poetry than prose as the first -- and only? -- female Number Two puts Number Six on trial for crimes against the Village. All plot, no story, but the costumes are nice.

7. 

   8 Aug 2021

   Episode 2: Free for All

   The experiment continues, but with a political theme as Six runs for high office and...stuff happens.

8. 

   1 Aug 2021

   Episode 1: Arrival

   We review the series' start, give a little of its historical context and lose it as we follow the bouncing ball...

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