Slipstreaming between Africa and New York and stripped almost entirely of humor and heart, the new Prisoner, which airs in six parts Sunday through Tuesday on AMC, is too heavy on domestic melodrama and too light on sci-fi possibility. Rather than taking its contemporary obsessions about love in the time of technology to the outer limits, director Nick Hurran and producer Trevor Hopkins have played it safe.
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