Prison Break The Final Break Watch
Hadda Condino
One thing that I feel that has kept the viewership is that every episode is a cliff hanger. I know I keep watching because I want to know what happens next.
As for season three taking place in a prison once more, I thought about this jokingly. Personally I think that this is just way to far fetched, and just drags the show on even more.
I am finding it hard to remove myself cold turkey from the act of reviewing media that I come in contact with. So, in good nature, I have decided to give my fairly unbiased opinions about a television show that was first featured in 2005 and I first watched in 2012 called Prison Break.
the break is really an amazing show to watch it is full of emotions compounded with hate, love and envy all through the seasons whetting your appetite to watch simultaneously without a break
especially the American bond they show when they get to Sona rules are rules to the Panamanian drug Lord in the battle field
the team work and so on..
it was really interesting show ever.
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i still have unaswered questions.in season one,the convicts applied fertilizers on their bed and i wonder why they did that.also i feel mike and linc could have disquised themselves better and that would have sort of reduced the chase.still best show ever though
I recently downloaded 'Prison.Break.The.Final.Break.WS.PDTV.XviD-iLM' and a week or so later I downloaded 'Prison.Break.S04E23' and 'Prison.Break.S04E24' - but I'm a little confused - so, PLEASE, without spoiling, which eps do I watch first?
Some information if you're confused:
Episode 22 was indeed the series finale of this show. However, two bonus episodes were produced, and FOX decided not to air them.
These episodes take place after most of the events in E22, but before the '4 years later' time jump.
The episodes were 'converted' to a standalone 'prequel movie', titled "Prison Break: The Final Break".
(This is also scheduled to be released seperately on DVD & Blu-ray on July 21 in the US)
If you did not already watch it - watch ep 22 until the "4 years later" break - which are just the last 7 minutes - but thse minutes could spoil the Final Break a little. Just watch those 7 minutes after The Final Break
Left me sad and actually wanting more. Shame to loose such a show that started so well. I would like to see something similar be created in the future. You gotta love the characters... and a lot more.
PB would definitely have been better off calling it a day after S2, but I quite liked the creativity in getting them thrown into a Panamanian prison for S3. S was the big problem, as the show transformed into an entirely different beast that bore no relation to its own title. Still, if you don't take any of it seriously, it was largely entertaining and silly nonsense. I only really started to grow weary with it after it came back from hiatus with a run of terrible episode and stupid twists.
But, Alan, this isn't even "the end", as there's a DTV movie coming in the summer!
I've never missed an episode and I have no idea what Scylla is, either.
Also, Michael is not an architect. He's a strucutural engineer. Don't ask me to explain the difference, because I can't.
I just watch for the pretty.
I also stopped watching this show mid season two. I enjoyed the review (though headless people coming back to life seems a lot more Days of our Lives than a primetime show), but I really found interesting your comparison with UK shows.
I watch a pretty fair amount of BBCAmerica, and I like their approach to TV series. Sure, I'm often not ready for certain show to end, but at least they often end at a high point, creatively.
Now, the problem with US shows is often two-fold: shows that go on for too long, and then the shows they cancel without giving much of a chance (and my bitterness about not airing the remaining episodes. I'm looking at YOU, ABC. Though I think Pushing Daisies will be coming back in a few weeks.)
It was a show that was always elevated by the actors, but was done in by the writers' and producers' lack of imagination and contempt for the viewers. The whole Sara beheaded and brought back to life plot showed that, and now we have the nonsensical resurrection of Christina Scofield and multiple rewritings of the entire series premise.
It helps that TV culture in the UK isn't as focused on ratings (even the non-BBC commercial channels, to some extent.) Of course, it helps that shows are British shows are MUCH cheaper to make, so there's not as much risk. In the US, networks pump millions into their shows and they live or die on how attractive they are for advertisers, on the basis of ratings. Pure and simple.
I can't even think of a UK show that was cancelled because of low ratings that DIDN'T deserve it!
And those that COULD continue for years and years don't because the lead actors or writer/creator get itchy feet by year 2 or 3, and there is rarely usually much determination to keep a show going when that happens. Whereas, as you say, a successful TV series in the US is stretched to breaking point if the audience is there.
I think if you look at PRISON BREAK like a '40s Republic serial, it...well, it doesn't make more sense...but you may be able to appreciate it as just a wacky thrill ride. I'm pretty sure the absurd plotting is intentionally silly.
The direction and action sequences are extremely good for a prime-time network TV show; if not quite as good as 24, then extremely close (and better lit).
I don't think we're really supposed to know what Scylla was, and I don't think it makes any difference. It's just a McGuffin.
I'd love to have seen a Season 5, because I'm genuinely curious to know what the hell the writers could come up with.
Originally Scylla was posited as the Company's little black book, and was going to be used by Homeland Security (embodied by the never entertainin anymore MIchael Rappaport)to get rid of the moles in government and business and bring the company down. The keys to accessing Scylla were in the hands of six higher up operatives. At the time, all sorts of people wanted Scylla so they could sell it for a quarter billion dollars.
It was then revealed that Scylla wasn't just the Company's roster, but was the device that stores all of their secrets, including technologies that they have been researching and keeping for themselves.
Michael and Linc's mom managed to steal Scylla from the people that stole it from the people that stole it from the people that stole it from Michael, who stole it, and sold it to the son of the Indian Prime Minister for completely altruistic reasons (they were going to use the solar technology they developed to stop their dependency on fossil feuls) and then framed Linc for assasinating him so that his father would decide to use the technology for military reasons. She also had it implied that it was the Chinese that paid Linc to do it, which is silly, because he was exonerated for killing the Vice PResident's brother and would be a horrible choice for a paid assasin, as he is kinda famous for being a part of the Fox River 8 two years ago.
Anyhoo, Momma also plans to sell the technology to the Chinese and anyone else who wants to keep up with the superpowers as she sends the planet into world war 3 for fun and profit.
And Michael had his tattoos removed. I know they were useless at this point and a bitch to recreate all the time, but DAMMIT!
I also stopped watching "Prison Break" because of its incredible ridiculousness. But what's interesting is how closely the plot followed so many other thriller-style TV series:
1. The main character (or characters) is recruited into a strange situation, and seems to have unique powers for dealing with it.
2. The situation turns out to be related to a vast conspiracy.
3. The people on his side can't be trusted.
4. The people working against him have complex motives (and will eventually try to recruit the main character).
5. A mysterious person helps him.
6. The mysterious person turns out to be a presumed-lost parent or other family member.
7. The main character, who thought he got into the weird situation randomly, turns out to have been born into it somehow.
8. More family members turn up on the good and/or evil sides.
9. The main character is almost killed.
10. After coming close several times, the character eventually prevails, and finds the artifact/solves the mystery/learns what it all means.
11. Except that turns out to be only part of the mystery, and it opens the door to an even vaster conspiracy.
12. And so on, for as long as the show manages to stay on the air.
I can count dozens of shows that have followed a similar pattern. (Hello, "Chuck" and "Fringe"!) In fact, I think I'll start a writing seminar....
Any idea what timespan the entire series takes place in? From first episode to last, how long? This season appears to have taken place over no more than maybe a couple of weeks? You'll notice that no one ever eats or sleeps, and that almost every scene takes place during daylight.
I could talk PB for hours. I think it's a fascinating guilty pleasure, and I suspect it may well turn into a cult series sometime down the line. Fox must have thought highly of it to make it the first (or one of the first) TV series to get a Blu-ray release.
Ben K., THE X-FILES may be long canceled, but its legacy lives on among TV producers. I don't think there's an hour drama on television that hasn't been inspired in some way by it.
Thanks for the heads-up, Alan!
Personally, I enjoyed season 2 more than many did, but felt it was painfully obvious that season 2 was orignially intended to be the end (as the creators confirmed in interviews). Putting them in a new prison just felt so contrived, and I skipped out on most of season 3. I did however mostly like the way they re-envisioned season 4 as a heist sort of show. But I felt it could pretty easily have ended about halfway through (instead of having Rappaport betray them and setting off a new chain of events).
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