Prison Break

It’s kinda sad that this blog has just been set up, because we’re already into this second season by 10 episodes. To go back and recap all the past episodes would be extremely difficult for me to do. With that said lets start with last night’s episode and go from there.

Wow! Prison Break is just pure fun, like Die Hard. You understand how completely implausible it is while watching it, yet you’re totally engrossed in what’s going on. Prison Break isn’t grounded in our reality, but some other reality that appears to be like ours but everything’s a conspiracy and people figure the exact right thing out and the exact right second they need to. But, the key to Prison Break’s success in my mind is it’s sheer intensity.

Ok, now with last night’s episode the police in Arizona had caught Lincoln and L.J. But, like season one, a dark van appears on the horizon as Lincoln is being transported. Something about this show, is whenever something is happening of the utmost importance, like the transferring of the most wanted man in America, there’s only ONE police car doing it. I’m thinking in ‘our reality’ there’d be a convoy. But, that sort of fact is something that we push to the back of our brain while watching this show.

The van starts smashing into the cop car and runs it off the road. Of course the cops are incapacitated, but Lincoln and L.J. are fine. I knew Lincoln’s Dad, Aldo (who set up the whole van thing), would come back into the picture. I just didn’t expect it to be like this. But, why didn’t I see this one coming? This is exactly what happened in the first season.

Something else I really like about this show is how forth coming it is with answers, and the wonderful use of flashbacks to answer those questions for us. In a TV world where people seem to be becoming more and more impatient because shows like Lost aren’t giving them ‘any answers,’ Prison Break is the show for them. In this season especially they’ve been really good at tying things together. Only carrying secrets, or unknown plotlines, through two or three episodes at the most makes for really fantastic and fast-paced story telling.

Michael and Sara finally meet up in Gila, New Mexico with Agent Mahone right on his tail. Mahone seems like a man with nothing to lose. After we found out he buried the body of Oscar Shales, the only man to elude him, in his backyard we know that Mahone is not playing with a full deck. Combine his extreme paranoia with those weird pills he hides in his pen and that he’s working with the overall conspiracy, he makes for an interesting character.

Another great storyline is with Bellick and his guard buddy Geary. They find T-Bag at the house of the woman that turned him in all that time ago. We also know that T-Bag has all that money stashed away in a locker. I was actually rooting for Bellick this time around. Now that he’s out of that guard uniform and beating up on T-Bag, I’m pretty satisfied. T-Bag swallows the key. But, it only takes a while until Bellick and Geary make him…poop…it out. SICK! T-Bag is gross enough, but having to dig through his ‘leftovers’ to get the key that may be a bit too much for me. But, then again it is five million bucks. But, when Bellick and Geary end up getting the bag. Geary nails Bellick with a hammer and runs off with the money. I didn’t see that coming. But, I guess Bellick is pretty mean to him.

So, what’s going to happen? It’s anybody’s game right now. Oh I almost forgot, it seems that Lincoln’s Dad has a leak in his gang. My guess is that that lady that Lincoln head-butted will save them all. Any takers?

Until next week…

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