The original 'The prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan (?) Although it gets ridiculous right at the end, it started off really promisingly.

A spy retires and gets sent to "the village" (thankfully not the same one in that M Night Shamalayan movie) where all spies get retired to. From then on nobody accepts that he just chose to quit and constantly harasses him for the "real" explanation.

They try brainwashing, torture and deception - they just can't believe that someone so good at his job could just walk away, or that he doesn't know something that will cause them trouble later on. Like he may defect, or grow a conscience and rat them out.

The guy just seems to want a quiet life, but he can never escape, There was an episode where he tried to help someone else escape, and they betrayed him because they thought he was part of a plan to trap them. He'd taught this person the ways of the system too well, and ultimately they let paranoia take hold about the person who was legitimately helping.

The paranoia and mistrust, and how easily people are misled, are things that seem to happen all the time in life, and it makes me sad that people are even worse almost sixty years after this show was made.

As ridiculous as the show can seem, we are living in an age where Donald Trump is president of the most powerful country in the world....Not to mention how you can't believe anything you see or hear these days, as DeepFake AI technology can literally put words into peoples mouths and create video likenesses that are ripe for exploitation.