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...new Prisoner keeps some of version 1.0's hallmarks, notably Rover, a balloon-like orb that patrols the Village and enforces discipline. But thematically, it at once changes very much and too little. For instance, in McGoohan's show--a Cold War story of totalitarianism--giving the Villagers numbers made chilling sense as a dehumanizing, de-individualizing device (and 40 years ago, played a tad more original). But for The Prisoner's new dystopia, which seeks to control minds more than imprison bodies, it doesn't quite fit. One would think the Village's happy-faced thought control would...
Aesthetically, the new Prisoner is a feast. The Village, manicured and painted in cartoon pastels, has a menacing gaiety. (The show was filmed on location in southern Africa, and it's shot through with gorgeous lemony light.) The miniseries shows flashes of surreal playfulness: the only foods served at any occasion in the Village, for instance, are wraps. (You just knew they were evil.) And the sound track is heavy on Brian Wilson's Smile, his opus begun around the time of the original Prisoner, which lends this version a dreamlike carnival tone...
...simply materializes. His past comes to him, and us, in a series of disorienting flashbacks (or are they?) of life in Manhattan that act as a parallel plot. He faintly recognizes people he meets from elsewhere, but they don't recall it; they don't know what New York is or recognize names like Darwin and Plato. The official belief is that there is no outside world: "There is only the Village." (The few who believe rumors of "another place" come to a bad end.) Are Six's memories even real? Is the Village...
...New York City...
...New York City department of health has come under fire for distributing rations of the still scarce H1N1 vaccine to corporate health centers--including those of Wall Street firms--despite shortages faced by hospitals and pediatricians. Officials defended the decision, arguing that they are simply increasing the types of locations where the shot is available...