Dark Matter Series-Premiere Recap: Man and Superposition

The seminal British spy-fi series The Prisoner, which ran for 17 episodes in 1967–68, was an oddity that cast a long shadow, influencing many better-remembered weirdo TV series that came later, including Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Lost. Each episode began with a lengthy title sequence wherein co-creator and star Patrick McGoohan’s unnamed character angrily resigns from some unspecified high-security job and is then gassed and abducted, waking up to a strange life in a...