According to Epguides, the show has at least a 13-episode run.
I’ve given up with 20 minutes left to go.
It just can’t hold my interest. I liked Oz but don’t like 24. Back to Monday Night Football for me.
Yeah, I’d grab ahold of his pocket any day.
Meh.
They’re going for Oz, but can’t be so edgy on network television.
They’ve got a very good unfolding escape plot, but I just can’t see it working for an entire season wthout things getting stretched direly thin.
Would’ve made a hell of a movie, but they don’t have the characters to pad it out for serial television (unlike, say, Lost, whch also has a single slowly revealed plot, but has the characters to keep my interest in between the rare revelations).
Ok, probably oughta spoiler questions so as not to mess up anyone still watching.
The mob guy who controls the work thing, how in the world would Mr.Nobody Architect Man know the mob guy is in there and be able to find out what all the other folks can’t, i.e. the guy who turned witness?
I can coast on the warden just happening to need a structural engineer, and the death penalty that doesn’t exist in Illinois, all the other coincidences, but I that one’s got me stumped. Did I miss where they explained that?
It hasn’t been explained, but if he can figure out a way to encode blueprints in magic tattoos then researching who else is in prison and finding one guy on the outside is the least of the stretches of credulity.
Wow. I’m surprised at the responses so far. I’m usually super-critical about roll eyes aspects of plots, and this show surely has plenty. But… I liked the pilot episode a lot. The acting was good, and the various plot threads all made sense in terms of working towards the main theme. This was a lot better than I expected.
I give it a solid B+.
I watched up until the last twenty minutes or so (friends wanted to play volleyball), so could someone spoil the ending for me?
Not sure if I remember all the details, but:
In the race riot, younger Brother gets his screw (the real one, not the verb) and it turns out that he files it down so it’s an allen wrench. Unclear why it HAD to be that specific screw and not some other piece of metal. Anyway, the wrench fits a screw in the prison toilets. The Lawyer Lady gets to see the security tape and it looks like Older Brother did cap the guy, but it turns out the guy was ALREADY capped, so he didn’t do it. Crab-guy’s girlfriend (or wife?) pays a visit to Lawyer Lady and tells her about the giant conspiracy. A phone call is placed to Rich Montana Woman (whoever that is) to tell her that Lawyer Lady is onto something. RMW says, in effect, that nothing, not even LL, can stand in the way of what they’re doing (whatever that is). Mean Guard Guy arranges for Younger Brother to be led to Long Haired Mob Guy, who threatens to cut off his toes if he doens’t give up Fibonacci’s number. Get it-- Fibbonachi’s number? Yuk, yuk. I couldn’t watch the part where they either did or did not cut off Younger Brother’s toes-- too squeemish. Oh yeah, Bishop Guy gets killed by someone sneaking into his mansion while he’s asleep.
I like it. It’s very silly, but good fun.
Silly stuff about the tats – he incorporated the manufacturer and part # of the screw inked onto him, but committed it to memory that he’d find it in the bleachers? Oookay. Also, I’m curious about how he’s expecting to refer to stuff on his back. I guess he’s counting on picking up his co-conspirators.
Anything that includes D.B. Cooper as a major plot point gets +10 cool points. Even Up the Creek.
The first scene indicated that he’d been carefully crafting his whole plan, and showed newspaper clippings ('cuz all super-educated savants use the Chicago Tribune as a primary research source) which made specific references to the mob boss being fingered, the governor’s daughter, the legend of D.B. Cooper, the insulin blocker, etc…
As for how he was able to locate the guy in witness protection, I think the main thing is that he’s smarter than Jack Austin at twelve noon, and the mob guys are just a bunch of dumb thugs. It being the kind of show that it is, I think we can also take it as written that his girlfriend is a chatty FBI agent who was assigned to relocate Fibonacci, too.
I’m looking forward to seeing how he manages to get “D.B.” and the mob gorilla outside and then manages to effect the bad guy’s (correct use of apostrophe) recapture.
Oh yeah, this’ll get me through until Third Watch, 24, and Desperate Housewives return. Easy.
Seems to me the bad guys are just making things worse. They’d probably have an easier time of having someone in the prison kill the older brother. Offer up Fibonacci to the mob to have older brother killed, or something. Oh well, I guess most movies are based on the bad guys making bad decisions.
It’s adjusted for inflation. 
Illinois has the death penalty, they just aren’t sentancing anyone to it and everyone on Deathrow had their sentance commuted.
Shortly after watching this, I re-watched *Rome *on HBO. I had watched at a friends house on Sunday, and wanted to see it again in HiDef. The HiDef sure makes it much more watchable, but I thought there were at least as many plot holes in *Rome *as there were in Prison Break. For instance, the two guys sent to find the Standard just happen to find Octavian, while they’re walking because the horses were stolen. Puhleeeeeze…
Larry? - sorry to break the news to you but Third Watch isn’t coming back.
Killing big brother only brings more attention to his case, unless they could provide an impatient inmate who can’t wait 30 days.
Well, I thought it was entertaining, although I’m pretty good at suspending disbelief for some of the more “out there” plot coincidences. I liked watching Dominic Purcell in “John Doe” (a series canceled before we really found anything out, dang it), so I decided to give Prison Break a shot.
Is there really an over-the-counter insulin blocker? Why? Is there some kind of “anti diabetes” where the body makes more insulin than it should? And would it really work fast enough to increase Michael’s blood sugar level enough to fool the doctor in the time it took to get from the yard to the infirmary? Did he chug a bunch of sugar packets on the way up?
I’m guessing that the “prison break” aspect will probably go on for about half the 13 contracted episodes. Maybe even less, given that the previews for next week’s ep showed Michael using the allen wrench to remove the toilet and access the prison’s “Jeffrey’s Tubes”. Although now that I think about it, I think they prefaced the preview with "scenes from upcoming episodes, so it may be a few weeks out. Then it’ll probably switch to a conspiracy investigation to figure out why Lincoln got set up, why the VP’s brother was killed, why the Secret Service is in on it, and how Rich Montana Woman fits in.
Noooooooo…
Sort of. Remember the doctor said he looked like he was Hypoglycemic?
Hypo = low. Diabetes can be thought of as Hyperglycemia. Hyper = high.
I didn’t see all of it because I was working on something. The Prison break plot was interesting enough but the rest left me bored. I’m a 24 fan but I’m not a huge fan of prison movies. I turned it off at 9:30 to watch South Park.
We saw him remove the first of the bolts last night. Being able to access the space behind the toilet can’t be all he needs to do to make good the escape, what with his furtive dropping of origami ducks hither and thither. He needs to make it to the infirmary and then from the infirmary to the outside. He also needs to enlist the Mob guys and DB Cooper, so part of the story will be consumed by that.
Now, does anyone know why we’re supposed to care about tattoo brother’s cell mate and his girlfriend? Or is the GF just motivation for CM to join in the escape plan?
I agree with your spoiler. Otto.
Not sure the series is going to pull anything off though…looks mildly boring.