Prison Break: Life on the Run
PRISON BREAK (Monday 8/7c FOX) was a fun guilty pleasure for me last year. It was incredibly convoluted, but a wonderfully goofy time - and a very good companion piece for '24.'
After an entire year of wondering what in the world the producers were going to come up with to keep things going once the boys escaped, they have delivered.
This year, PRISON BREAK has erupted across the wide open plains of America, free from the confines of Fox Run Penitentiary. The multiple storylines help a great deal - the chance that they will all intersect at some point is pretty much a given.
It's nice to see the boys getting a little sunshine now that the production has moved to Dallas. The show overall is now brighter, more colorful than the dreary grays of Fox Run, and there's an infusion of energy from car chases, hot pursuits and explosions that was impossible in Season One.
I am guaranteed a loud chuckle at some point in every episode. This week, there were two. One when Burrows dragged T-Bag out of the trunk of the car and T banged his head lid. No way that one was scripted. (Poor Robert Knepper - he's drawn such a completely nasty character in T-Bag that he may very well be doomed to play characters like him for the rest of his career.)
The second outburst cam as the camera boomed high into the sky as the boys crested the hill to discover a residential development where their buried treasure is supposed to be.
Incredible. As in not credible. But I'm OK with that.
There's no way you're getting me to delete the Season Pass on this one.
1 comment:
I really loved the series, then it started to get, as you said, not credible. As Tweener goes into the gas station, the feds arrive within seconds. The police has not received ONE false sighting of the 8. How do we knoe that? When Sucre is stopped in his car on the road, the call from the policeman is registred in a second with the search unit, which in real life should receive at least 10 sightings from every major city. How many concerned mothers would see Bagwell everywhere they look? How many racists would see Sucre and C-Note on every corner? How did Bellick and his mate know, when they followed Nika, while they were driving behind her, that this was exactly the place where they should not drive behind her, but take the other road, from which they are watching her in the series? The idea of Mahone to search the river is not credible, too.
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