I liked the first season of Prison Break. It was must see.
But since season 2 it’s jsut seemed to be rubbish.
They’ll open up plot lines, and bring in possiblities which look like they could last for half a season. But in the next episode they just kill someone off or whatnot and everything’s forgotten about.
I have no faith in the 3rd series.
The way i see it, if there is anything that is “needed” someone can just be bribed, or someone can just be introduced into the prison with the answer.
Does anyone feel the same?
Does anyone have faith in the 3rd series?
I bailed out after the first episode of the third season. It seemed silly now. The story wrapped up at the end of last seson, except for the extraneous stuff they tacked on to make another season feasible.
I still like it, although season 3 less than the previous seasons. The plot contrivances are preposterous, of course, but they do keep me guessing. I like that the show is totally fun and unpredictable, even when they seem to be covering the same ground as from S1 (Michael escapes again!).
Also, the supporting cast is very, very good. T-Bag is delightfully, deliciously evil and Bellick manages to be a petty, cruel, loser bastard but with occasionaly lapses of real pathos. Sometimes I actually feel sorry for him.
It’s kind of like an old fashioned adventure serial – way over-the-top and overly dramatic, but a fun guilty pleasure.
I’m not liking it as much as the first two seasons. I almost bailed after the first episode this season, but stuck it out. It’s gotten marginally better, but I don’t feel that sense of eagerness that I used to.
I’m sticking it out to see how the have Michael react to Sara’s death. That better be a good scene!
The words “Michael” and “react” don’t generally belong in the same sentence together.
I’m still watching and enjoying. It’s not as strong as the first two seasons and I wouldn’t have been at all upset had they ended the show with season two (with a different wrap-up, obviously, without the cliffhangers). I think killing Sara was a stupid move; they could’ve just recast the part. One of the best things about this season is watching the guy playing Bellick. He’s shown amazing range in what could easily have been a very one-note performance.
Ditto. Ostensibly, they only have one day left (in the story’s timeline), so I really hope they don’t do something to artificially extend the deadline. I’m interested in Michael escaping, seeing why the Company wants Whistler, and whether Linc will give the beatdown on the evil Sara-murdering chick. Let’s get out of there, soon!
At the end of last season, an agent of the conspiracy tracked down Michael, Link and Sara and was about to do Very Bad Things to them. Sara shot the guy dead and, when the police showed up about a minute later, Michael confessed to shooting the agent to keep Sara from being arrested.
It goes without saying (even though we all keep saying it) that it could never be as good as the first season. Nothing could ever be as good as the first season.
But I’ll say that it’s still my favorite TV show. And on the scale of preposterous, far-fetched and filled with plot holes you could drive a truck through, it’s nowhere close to the last few seasons of 24.
Next week is a two-hour “event”, and it seems clear that they’ll escape. As I said in another thread, I’m assuming/hoping that the rest of this season will feature Michael’s intricately-plotted and deliciously suspensful revenge against everyone connected with Sara’s death. I mean, they really can’t just keep putting him back in prison, but they have to make use of his master-planner abilities somehow, so a revenge plot seems only fitting.