History Series / ThePrisoner2009

* HeroesWantRedHeads. Both major female characters are redheaded or have reddish hair, with 6 falling for both of them.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: 2 has 6 speak to a psychologist, 70, so he can find out what drives 6's desire to escape the Village. 2 later visits 70 and mockingly talks about his own psychological problems, before deriding it all as freudian mumbo-jumbo.

* DontWakeTheSleeper: The Village is not a physical location, but a shared dreamstate beneath the subconscious level which 2's wife discovered during her meditations, and requires an active "Dreamer" to keep the fantasy from collapsing. The events of the series are [[spoiler:part of a plot by 2 to allow him and his wife to wake up from the dream, and 6 to take his place as the leader of the village. 6's LoveInterest, 313, who in the real world is a severely mentally handicapped woman, becomes the new Dreamer.]]
* DreamApocalypse: All the people in the village have some sort of counterpart in the real world. [[spoiler:2's son 11-12]] is one of the few people who doesn't have one, and also has no childhood memories. He tries to murder his "mother" and hangs himself when he realizes that he only exists in someone else's imagination.

* HospitalHottie: 313
* HotterAndSexier: Unlike the chaste original (although several female characters were depicted as being attracted to, and even in love with, No. 6 in the 1967 series, their affections were never returned), in this series we not only see romance develop between 6 and two other characters, but there's even a love scene with one of them.

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:It looks like 147's daughter, 832, is about to fall into a BottomlessPit, but she doesn't--until a few minutes later.]]

** The final scene of 6 and 313 is extremely similar in framing, mood, and implication to [[spoiler:Remiel and Duma in Hell at the end of the ''Season of Mists'' arc]] of ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

* TomatoSurprise: Those flashbacks to Six's life before The Village? [[spoiler: They aren't flashbacks, they're happening simultaneously.]]

This was not a direct remake, as characterization, atmosphere, and ending were almost entirely different. [=McGoohan=] died before the series aired, but had been invited to make a cameo appearance, which he declined; played now by another actor, the cameo in episode 1 involved 6 coming across an old man dressed in Number 6's outfit from the original series.

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: The Village is monitored by a network of agents and double agents who are constantly spying on the villagers for any deviant behavior. Villagers themselves are also motivated to inform on their neighbors.