Cause every time I hear anything about it, it just sounds awful.
I’m enjoying it a lot.
It’s actually one of the only shows I’m watching this season.
I watched the premeire but wasn’t impressed.
I’ve heard it compared to 24 a couple times. My response is “It’s a lot like 24, except for the fact that it’s not in real time, Keifer Sutherland is a lot more fun to watch then Dominic Purcell, it only took Jack Bauer 2 hours to break out of prison(with a Columbian Drug lord) and prison break sucks.”
I’ll agree with that, but Wentworth Miller is infinitely more enjoyable to look at than either.
OK, I admit it, I watch this show. It’s like “24” in that it’s addicting, and makes you want to know what happens to the characters, but it’s not like “24” in that it’s not as good. Actually, I guess it about as good as season 4 of “24”, with a lot of groan moments everytime something barely plausible happens.
I think it would make a pretty good miniseries (6-10 hours maybe), but the obsticles and workarounds are getting bad IMHO.
Brian
I agree. I’ve been watching it since its first episode, but I expect I’ll stop fairly soon. If they continue to stretch out the actual prison break, it will get completely silly instead of just mostly silly. However, once they break out, the storyline must go to the conspiracy, which is the worst part of the show. I can’t see the show lasting too long, although I’ve enjoyed it so far.
Apparently FOX doesn’t care about it, despite its being one of its few solid hits from the new fall schedule, seeing as how after sweeps it’s going on hiatus until fucking MAY. Because there’s nothing guaranteed to hold a new mystery/suspense show’s audience like a six month absence. Morons.
But yeah, I care enough about it to keep watching, because it’s so completely absurd.
I think it’s gotten better in the last few episodes. I find the “government conspiracy” plot line a lot more interesting than the “get out of prison” plotline, and the former has been taking up more and more of each episode. The latest government baddie is GOOOOOOD!!!
“24’” is a better show almost exclusively because of K.S. and how he plays Bauer. There isn’t any similar character in “Prison Break”. I’m actually embarrassed for Stacy Keach. Is it bad acting, bad writing, or both that makes his character painful to watch?
They were locked into the hiatus long before anyone knew whether PB was going to be a hit or not. In order to have 24 run uninterrupted for 4 months, they frontloaded PB in the fall. May be a little painful in hindsight, but certainly nothing moronic about it (since moving it or 24 to another day would just complicate things further).
Have watch OZ-lite since day one.
There are quite a few groaning moments…this elaborate plan constantly being hinged upon whether a bird poops on the right leaf and the wind comes from the north at exactly 5 mph and the guard happens to pick up the twig and - you get my drift.
Still, there is a hell of a lot worse on television and I will continue to watch the show to see how it ends - but I was not aware of a 6 month hiatus.
That sucks big time.
6 month hiatus? That’s bullshit.
Prison Break is geat because it’s ludricous without being insulting (unlike 24 which insults its viewers atleast once an episode.)
The actors are all fine. The conspiracy plot which was the weakest thread of the show has started to really ramp up.
The show has two seasons in it at most. This season better end with the escape and season 2 should be about them on the run.
I was wondering how they were going to keep this nonsense up. They can stack up all the conspiracies they want; it’s still only wafer thin. A six-month hiatus is a great answer.
Too bad nobody will care by then.
Not to be harsh to the AD fans but seeing as how that show is cancelled and apparently that kitchen show is too, and seeing as how FOX is regularly running repeats of Prison Break in the earlier time slot anyway, has no one at FOX considered the wacky notion of filling the vacant time slot with Prison Break?! I find it impossible to believe that whatever shit they’ve dredged up from the bowels of mid-season replacement to fill the hour is so woderful that it can’t bear a nine week delay to allow PB to finish its season.
My personal favorite was how, in the last episode, the plot depended on the big mob boss being trusting enough to go kill the informant in person (don’t they have minions to do their dirty work for them?). And not only that, but he and his goons charged right in, guns drawn, without, you know, watching the house for a day or so to make sure the informant was actually there and the house was not in fact currently surrounded by cops. Sweet.
The two aforementioned (and clearly hilarious) sitcoms weren’t on Fox’s Jan schedule in the first place. Instead, House is in the time slot (what was it some AD critics were complaining about? The same jokes/stories every week? Huh.), followed by 24.
I’ve enjoyed Prison Break from the first episode, and though I like the ridiculous MacGyver-like abilities of Wentworth Miller’s character (especially that rock hard map of his), I’ve started drifting in and out of the actual plot. It’s no Oz, but what is? And I have to say, it’s remarkably violent for primetime.
The reason people compare it to 24 is because several times during any given episode of either show, you find yourself saying either “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen” or, perhaps, “These are the stupidest people I’ve ever seen.” You can’t depend on it to make sense or to deliver any sort of characterization, thoughtful plot development, or important human insights. The show exists to be laughed at, not with. Presumably that’s not what they were going for, but it doesn’t matter, because it provides enough enjoyment in this way that it’s landing lots of viewers.
–Cliffy
Any time that Fox does repeated “Encore Presentations” it means that it totally sucks and the ratings are in the crapper. I think that Prison Break is right on the money for that one. Now they can bring back North Shore!
Juuuuust kidding.
I’ve seen about two episodes of this show. From what I saw, I’d like to watch the rest, except it’s on opposite Monday Night Football. C’mon, I’m only human!
So run Prison Break in the time slot vacated by House. Oh wait, we have to keep that slot open for yet another passle of no-talent douchebags who can’t sing trying to get a record contract. American Fucking Idol.