The Prisoner won the New York Film Festival's 2008 award for best pilot. The 12 part series is also a game with clues and puzzles for viewers to decode. Tubefilter has an interview with creators Stuart Culpepper and Karin Williams.
They shot the entire series in 10 days, with huge crews by web standards...as many as 80 people. Nonetheless, they say their budget was very small.
This is the blurb about the show from College Humour:
The Prisoner follows a young American who is spirited away to the depths of a secret prison, chronicling his struggle to escape with the help of a seductive but enigmatic Trustee. This dramatic microseries -- designed for the web and mobile devices -- explores the limits of personal freedom in the context of a global war on terror. The Prisoner was created for development as a webisode series, long-form television series or feature. In subsequent episodes, our hero joins an underground network of escapees linked by a special RFID implant; are they freedom fighters, or pawns in a vast conspiracy of disinformation?
Culpepper and Williams are a little coy about how to watch the series; they suggest you start atmkzaq.us. Or you might want to start by watching the pilot below. But you'll have to figure out how to find the next episode yourself. (And if you find it, kindly enlighten me.)
