Wowza. No that’s not a word, but that is my expression. I enjoyed the premiere of Prison Break as it breaks into its 4th season and as far as I can tell, everything we loved about Prison Break is still there.
The suspense, surprises, worries and other twists were there and there was at least one spot that kind of smelled lame. I presume it was to move the story along at a faster clip, but you’ll see what I mean in a moment.
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First, this isn’t your normal everyday recap. Nope. That makes sense, being that I’m not your normal, everyday writer! What I am going to do is chat about a few of the characters I saw in the 2-hour premiere and the details from those snippets will fill out some of the storyline.
WARNING: If you have DVR’d the Prison Break premiere for future viewing, there are details and fillers that will spoil the episode if you look for the surprise, shock and awe in an episode. On the other hand, I don’t spell out the order of things, so there still might be some surprise for you… if you dare!
So here we go…
After getting out of Sona, everyone gets busted – again. It goes down real fast and they all end up back in jail. Which is pretty convenient since now a small federal effort (At least that’s what it seems for now) is underway to take down “The Company.”
The brothers Scofield: After Michael hunts down Whistler and our favorite girl to hate, Gretchen, he interrupts a job where they were trying to steal some data off of a weird looking card / device. All in the name of The Company. Gretchen is completely unaware that during the heist, Whistler was doing some side work. He made a copy of the data thingy and passed the copy off someone else.
Michael and Lincoln are brought together with their old gang of associates to get this data back, known as Scylla, for the feds. A new player in the show, Donald Self, is the gangs wrangler and watch dog. (He’s put GPS anklets on everyone to keep track of them, which in itself worries me that somewhere down the road, that technological leash will be exploited by the bad guys in this whole scheme).
Sara Tancredi: The biggest point for me in this season opener is the new loose cannon, Sara. Yes, I said loose cannon, and we’ve got two of them. I think as far as explaining someone’s “death” away as an accidental identification of a severed head in a box in a dark location wasn’t too bad. I’ve seen worse explanations in other shows, so I’m OK with that. But Sarah is having what appears to be real issues with PTS from her torture sessions at the hands of our favorite lying beeotch, Gretchen Morgan.
Bruce thinks: Something is going to go terribly wrong for Sara, in her head. I don’t know when it will pop up, but you know it’s going to be a the worst possible time. And I think it’s the next time she might see Gretchen.
Alex Mahone is the second loose cannon to watch out for. Mahone is in on this party to collect the much coveted components of the Scylla. He’s got great operational insight that helps them locate one person already and I like Mahone as far as taking the action necessary to get a deed done. And done right.
Bruce thinks: With the death of his wife and child at the hands of our newest, soft spoken, torturous bad guy, Wyatt, Mahone now has an inner demon that I predict will get in the way at crucial moments and I’m betting when there’s a well laid plan in place, and he sees the man responsible for the death of his family, he ain’t gonna stick to plan. At least not the groups plan.
T-Bag. Can we ever be rid of Theodore Bagwell (T-Bag)? Well it turns out he has the dead Whistler’s bird book of codes and is making his way to Los Angeles to confront Michael. He’s blaming Michael for a lot and thinks he and Michael are a lot alike and Michael just won’t admit it. Sheesh. He’s got himself a building list of emotional scars going on, starting with his hand. And now, you can add cannibalism to the list of travesties that he blames Michael for. Yeah, yeah… you’ll have to watch the episode to understand that one, but sure enough, he’s got one more emotional scar to pack on top of the rest of his twisted psyche.
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10 Comments
Nice coverage Bruce,!
I liked the 2 hour show, thought it was great, even the break in!
They have really written in some money saving stuff. First there shooting in LA,,, that’s cool! The show has come along way from Fox River.
Having Micheal remove his tatt, saves major time in make_up,,,
Writing Sara back in the show was very clever, and also keeps the story from going full revenge. It seems Mahone is on that story arc now. He blew it by not telling his wife to leave the house!
Belicks come from the toughest cop at Fox River to a sniffiling momas boy. His story arc is really fun to watch.
T-Bag should have seen that. Coyote ugly coming,,, he’s loosing his touch.
His revenge arc I’m sure will take more lives and end in a huge way.
I’m hoping this black assassin dosnt last the whole season. He should be killed off in some random way while chasing our heros.
The shows writing staff continues to pace the show just like 24, its really fun to ride the show.
((Unfortunitly)) Bruce,,, FOX wasn’t happy with the low ratings let’s hope it was because of Labor day. If the show dosnt improve in ratings this will be its last season I’m sure of it.
Thanks 790. Yea… well, you know how it goes. Once the writing gets good, the show is doomed.
But that’s just my take.
Prison Break is a great show…
The writing has been stellar from the start…
The writers have a tough job to keep the show moving at the same time watching the ratings mid season as they develop the character arcs.
This could be a great end season, it could also restart the show for season 5,,, who knows ???
There’s a micro gray window for the writers.
This will be a intense season on both sides of the glass.
I absolutely loved the premiere! I was on the edge of my seat the whole two hours not knowing what would happen next.
One thing I am confused about though is T-Bag. It really seems he is loosing his touch. As 790 said he really should have seen it coming.
I know how they could do a Season5!..Well its sorta lame. U end this season by taking out the company, but discover that there is an even bigger ones that operates globally. That way you can have Michael running bout Europe and all over the world. But hey it won’t be bad if they just finish it this season cuz you don’t wanna ruin the legacy of a good show by stretching too thin…….btw Loving it this time round!
I loved it and am very happy with it’s return.
-790: You got that right!
-Stan: No Kidding!! We saw that from many miles away. His need for retribution seems to have taken control of T-Bag’s senses.
-Ngad, Dina: Yep, so far, so good!
Something else to remember:
I LOVED the first season of the show, not so much the second season and the 3rd? Was that the same show??
Something I truly would like to see is a focus on what is mini-series on television like this. Prison Break, the original story, was actually a vehicle written for Stallone and Willis! How interesting would that have been?
I totally agree on the intelligent writing factor – I’ve recently spoken to Joseph Hodges, production designer from 24 who we’ll be interviewing again soon and sadly – “common denominator writing and dumbing down” the content is what is focused on REGULARLY on-set, off-set, and during strikes!
“Now we’re all sons of bitches…”
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