A surreal slice of seaside paranoia, “The Prisoner” is what happens when British exceptionalism takes a long walk and finds itself kidnapped by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy in a bowler hat. But beneath the eccentricity lies the Anglofuturist marrow: a war veteran, Number 6, clinging fiercely to identity, liberty, and honour even when faced with weather balloons of doom. Escape may be futile, but dignity? Always achievable. A series that knows the future needs backbone as much as it needs innovation.