Fox's Breakout Hit of the 2005-2006 Season!
Most men would do anything to get out of Fox River Penitentiary,
but Michael Scofield will do anything to get in. His brother
Lincoln has been sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit,
and the only way to save him is from the inside out. Armed with
prison blueprints and an impossibly intricate escape plan,
Michael gets himself incarcerated, and the race against time is
on. Now, he'll need all of the cunning, daring, and luck he can
musterÂ...along with the assistance of some of the prison's most
vile and dangerous felons.
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Season one of Prison Break is great television. Here's the
set-up. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is framed and
wrongfully convicted for assassinating the Vice President's
brother. Lincoln's brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller),
who just happens to have designed Illinois' Fox River
Penitentiary where Lincoln is on death row, hatches an elaborate
escape plan. Michael's plan involves getting himself incarcerated
in Fox River and smuggling the prison's blueprints by having them
hidden in tattoos that cover his entire torso. Once inside,
Michael must form alliances with a rogue's gallery of felons with
their own sometimes unsavory motives. Meanwhile, on the outside,
Lincoln's lawyer and one-time girlfriend Veronica Donovan (Robin
Tunney), pursued by Secret Service agents, attempts to unravel
the conspiracy that sent her man to the slammer.
Prison Break is anchored by tight, suspenseful writing clearly
relished by the largely little-known cast. Standouts include
Robert Knepper as the murderer/pedophile T-Bag, who somehow makes
such a despicable character likeable. Stacey Keach of Mike Hammer
fame plays the warden-with-a-heart-of-gold, who clashes with
Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) over whether to rehabilitate
the inmates or makes their lives more miserable. Peter Stormare,
famous for his skills with a wood chipper in Fargo, turns in a
deliciously menacing performance as mob boss John Abruzzi, while
Amaury Nolasco's winsome Fernando Sucre shares a cell and secrets
with Miller's Scofield. Watching the show one gets a sense that
this is the opening salvo of Wentworth Miller's career, which
will doubtless include roles as assassins, detectives, super
heroes, and perhaps the champion of staring contests. Midway
through the season it's explained that Scofield is a genius with
an heightened sensitivity to other peoples' suffering, which sums
up what makes the show so great--the mind-bendingly intricate
plot is a framework for moments when people make others suffer
and cope with the burden of their own suffering.
The six-disc set includes 22 addictive episodes, audio
commentary on selected episodes, three featurettes, and alternate
and deleted scenes. As with most TV shows on DVD, the "previously
on Prison Break" intros can get tiresome, but that's what the
fast forward button is for. --Ryan Boudinot
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