Prison Break

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Anyone on WP interested in prison break ?

It was my favorite live-action show during the end of my high school years and early college. First 2 seasons were pure gold.

Yeah it's a great show. Especially in the earlier seasons. So many twists and turns, very intense.

The last season was pretty ridiculous. The first season was simply terrific. Season 2 was pretty good too, and I mostly liked season 3. Generally I think the show's weak link was the whole conspiracy with "the company" (or whatever they called it) - the more the show focused on breaking out of prison / being on the run and kept what was going on with "the company" vague, the better it was. The more the conspiracy and the company came to the forefront, the worse the show became. I think that was sort of its flaw - in order to keep the main characters likable and have the basic plot work, you couldn't have Michael breaking his brother out of prison if his brother really was guilty and still have Michael be seen as a likable character. Ergo, enter "the company" to frame Lincoln. Also, the Michael / Sara romance was a bit too far-fetched. But other aspects of the shows premise - the tattoo, a civil engineer with the blueprints of the prison being locked up in the prison, was pretty ace.

I watched Prison Break on Netflix and I really liked it. The first two seasons were some of the best TV episodes I have ever seen, even rivaling 24. The first half of the fourth season was cool, even with the absurdly contrived plot devices. But I just got to the water pipe incident (I don't want to give spoilers) and I may not finish it because it is not that good anymore. Burn Notice is another show I like watching in Netflix.

Probably the best show I've watched since Breaking Bad

The 3rd season was actually pretty good, even though it was only 13 episodes but that was the writer's strike's fault.

One thing I adored was how much like 24, nothing was ever certain on the show. I think the only thing that was guaranteed was the ending of season 1, since the whole premise was the title of the show.