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[–] bobroland 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The prisoner finale is the one of the greatest ends to a show ever. I couldn't think of a better way reenforce the message that we're all prisoners of our own devising.

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[–] JimmyJimRyan 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

To be honest I never really got the prisoner, saw all of it but never go it (we had 2 channels) but the ending seemed in keeping with the weirdness of the rest of the show.

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[–] bobroland 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah. It was a pretty trippy show. If you view it as allegorical instead of a straight forward narrative, it's an incredible series.

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[–] srgmpdns ago 

There are plenty of cultural artifacts from that period (66-68) that show the effects of the widespread use of mind-altering substances among the creative types of that time, before LSD was illegal, and was mostly the provenance of the intelligentsia.

Rubber Soul, Sgt. Peppers, Get Smart, The Wild Wild West and many others... but the conclusion of The Prisoner takes the cake for the most acid-soaked mindfuck of the era.