Maybe people were singing quotes from the show!

Heh! to the singing of phrases. A bit on the poetic side, but it almost works, given how quotable the original is.

The classic phrase was 'I am not a number -- I am a free man!'

This sort of lack of quality control has become endemic on this site. Not only has the quality of the writing gone drastically down-hill, but the editing is abysmal. From "singing phrases" to embarrassing "reign/rein" errors (witnessed more than once on these pages), I don't think I can take it anymore. This used to be one of my favorite sites, because it was clever and well-written, and a result I used to read practically everything on it. Not anymore; since the sale, quality has suffered tremendously.

The Village exists inside the head of two's wife M2. Basically, inside her lower subconscious. How she controls the village, and the prisoners inside it is never explained. How can she control prisoners with her subconscious without any mechanical intervention between her and the prisoners? How can M2 provide reparative therapy and at the same time free will, all with an unattached subconscious to the collective?. How Summakor gained such a technology is not examined either. In that lies deep frustration with the series. The very mechanism or reason behind the "Village" left only to the viewers imagination. Which might be well and ok if this mysterious fact were explained earlier in the series rather than later.

You get to the sixth episode of the series "Checkmate" and are still left in a state of stasis. Much like the prisoners. This is mainly due to poor direction by Bill Gallagher. The flashback scenes lacked a sort of time stamp, leaving the viewer uncertain as to when, and where something was happening. The viewer is consistently left adrift like a ship sailing without a chronometer.

The only way to become remotely familiar with the storyline is to watch the videos on AMC website and click on the link , ”Inside the Prisoner”. In fact the Prison in this series is much like the world of the Matrix, but the difference is that the storyline provided by the Matrix explained what it is in the beginning. This helped the viewer understand the complexities of the plot in a manner that removed unnecessary confusion. Confusion was used a plotline in the Prisoner, but to it’s own detriment.