PRISON BREAK MARATHON

I’m sure we have all heard about Prison Break or had the opportunity to watch Season one on TV. I was only able to catch 2 episodes of it on TV and fell behind. I loved the show the minute I started watching it so I figured I would get to watch it on DVD one day. Special thanks to my friends who purchased the season one DVD for me on my birthday.

I have just spent 2 days at home, down with a throat infection watching the entire season of Prison Break. I started the marathon not realizing that I would be so addicted to it. Every time I went to switch it off the show ended in a dramatic way that I had to keep going and before you knew it, it was 4am and I was still clued to the TV. I haven’t done a marathon like this since Buffy.

For all that don’t know the basic plot is about Michael Scofield (Played by Wentworth Miller) who robs a bank in order to get into Fox River Penitentiary. His brother Lincoln (Played by Dominic Purcell) has been sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit and the only way to save him is from the inside.

Cast of Prison Break

Armed with prison blueprints and an impossibly intricate escape plan, Michael gets himself incarcerated and the race against time is on. It’s amazing how the writers have dragged out an escape plan to an entire season. Every time the inmates have boxed themselves into a corner the viewer thinks how can they get out of this situation the writers out do themselves and come up with something that makes sense but something that you would have never thought of in a million years.

Michael & Licoln

The minute Michael gets into Prison it’s always been 2 steps forward and 1 step back. With the time ticking away this show manages to keep the viewers clued to a chair with its structure, intelligent writing and map out of the story. It portrays a story of family, which most viewers can link to or reflect from. Its amazing to see what one brother will do to save his older brother.

Throughout the journey of the 22 episodes one does question whether this escape plan will actually work however their escape is just the beginning. The writers tend to think they have mapped out the next 3 to 4 seasons. I just hope the next seasons are as intense, drawing and amazing as the first.