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LOCUS AMOENUS

The first one is the hallmark episode setting the tone for everything that happens within a microcosmos of ubiquitous providence and eccentric occurences.
Without any doubt it's the very place where the outdoor shooting was made that conveys the show's overall impression. The Village, an eclecticistic collection of fantasy building styles and features, is both stunning and fundamental to the series. The Village ist the most important supporting actor.

Wisely, the place is never located temporally or locally by the production. At least, that is, until the ultimate episode. But even the signposted "A20" motorway to nearby London may be a disorienting clue on a higher level of interpretation.
It is a timeless relic as well as a contemporary artefact, the place where the real matches the realistic.

"Welcome home from Home" reads a note on his desk.

Upon his arrival Number Six takes a walk round an early morning place. Excited he is, wants to know where he is and he enters the local general stores where he demands a map of the Place and its environs from the shop keeper. Nightmarish, perplexing and oppressing: the place is The Village, the sea is The Sea, the mountains are just that: The Mountains... Deja-vu - tautology, a shimmering of meaning: everything is just what it is.

Cabs will undertake only local rides, public phones allow only local calls, canned food displays a "Village Food" label only. And public speaker announcements spreading anti-information in a news-like manner: ice-cream is on sale, "the flavour of the day is strawberry."

The inmates's way of saluting each other is both joyful and subliminally threatening at the same time: "Be seeing you!". There is no questioning the outside.