There was a show, a log time ago, called
Nowhere Man. It involved a man targeted by a bizarre, mysterious conspiracy, that became more bizarre and mysterious as the show progressed.
As the series was coming to an end, I remember promotionals promising that the final episode would reveal everything. It did no such thing. All it revealed was that a few critical things that we had been led to assume, all along, were real, were not.
The Wikipedia article describes a conclusion that is not what I saw in the final aired episode.
I think we are owed a real final episode, that gives a real answer as to what the conspiracy really was, not the bullshit final episode that I actually saw, and not the nonexistent bullshit episode that the Wikipedia falsely claims to have existed.
An odd thought just now occurred to me; perhaps the Wikipedia has been seeded with misinformation, in order to foster a sense of paranoia about the show, somewhat in line with the premise of the show itself. A major point of the whole show was that the main character couldn't trust what any source of supposed information was telling him, and ultimately couldn't; even trust his own memories. I wonder if the Wikipedia article, and perhaps whatever other online information may now exist about that show, is seeded with misinformation to create that same sense of real-life paranoia and uncertainty about the show.
I'm now reminded of something I've had to say about the wonderful, bizarre, 1960s British TV show,
The Prisoner. I suspect that the star and creator of the show, Patrick McGoohan, would not approve of the use of such a vulgar term in connection with his show, but it really cannot be adequately described without using the word
“mindfuck”. It's what, in some episodes, the main character did to his captors, and in other episodes, what his captors tried to do to him. In the end, in the final episode, the biggest mindfuck was saved for the audience. I read somewhere that after the last episode aired, McGoohan had to go into hiding for a while, because everywhere he went, he was confronted by fans demanding that he explain that last episode.
