PRISON BREAK
Prison Break is one of my favorite movie series, because of the quarantine many people began watching this series again in Netflix. The Prison Break was first featured in 2005, I started watching it way back 2014.
So basically Prison break is about a man, named Michael Scofield who went on a mission to break his brother out of prison. He was convicted that his brother named Lincoln Burrows is innocent of the crime he allegedly did. He was the suspect of the murder of the Vice President's brother. Lincoln Burrows was is placed on death row and was scheduled for execution within a month. To get inside the prison to help his brother escape, Michael Scofield, committed a planned bank robbery which landed him to Fox River State Penitentiary.
Prison Break is a complex and intense show, in my own opinion, the show did an excellent job. Many people were captivated the entire time, watching hard clenching plot twists, which I loved. I love all the characters especially T-BAG because he has a Joker-like vibe. This show illustrated the war being waged inside Michael's head, and this was fascinating to many people as a viewer. Michael never pulled a trigger, however, people's lives were ruined by some of the things Michael needed to do to get his brother out of prison.
In the first season, we find Michael making connections, scheming his plans, and remaining completely focused. RARELY does Michael become unhinged and nervous? Michael seems to have every angle thought out and every contingency considered. Only when Lincoln was about to executed did his plans fall apart. If it wasn’t for that rouge call from the judge, Lincoln would have been fried. It was only when the plane took off the runway, leaving the convicts waving down the plane, that it finally sank in. Some things can’t be accounted for. Humans. It seemed that everything that went wrong in Michaels's plan was not due to some equipment malfunctioning, but rather human acting, well… unpredictable. And I just have to say, for about 45 minutes of that final episode in season 1 (which was all of it, haha) I was holding my breath. I couldn’t believe the amount of suspense that led up to the final escape. I found my heart racing like a dubstep beat. Man, that first season was solid.
Season 2 was very interesting in my opinion too. I loved the new addition with FBI Agent Alex Mahone heading up a task force to retrieve the escaped convicts. I thought William Fichtner did an incredible job as the FBI agent. In this season, we follow the gang as they attempt to escape the clutches of the law and remain low as to not get noticed by any civilians. I have to mention this right now though because it bugs me as a serious plot hole. You would think that with all of Michael’s knowledge and foreplanning, he would have decided it was a smart idea to purchase some decent disguises for himself and his brother. It seemed like THE MAIN problem the brothers and the Fox river 8 were running into was being “made” by the local populous. Some of them were arrested and even killed because of it. “But Nooooooooo! We’ll just put on some civilian clothes, maybe a hat, and we’ll be fine! Yeah, our faces are plastered all over the country, but I think NOT disguising our faces in ANY way is good enough.” Hardly. Anyway, aside from that, I enjoyed the suspense of the Fox river 8 trying not to get caught. Season 2 was not worse than season 1, just different in design. I still loved it.
Additionally, I thought that the continuing plot-line revolving around “The Company” was starting to get interesting. You begin to feel how strong of a hold The Company has on those in law enforcement, politics, government, even on the executive level. You start to think, “Is there anything that The Company can’t do, or get to?” We find that The Company has a TIGHT hold on FBI Agent Mahone, as well as any person who has someone they love and doesn’t want to see any harm come to them. The Company loves to exploit this angle.
Season 3 starts with an interesting twist. At the end of season 2, it seemed like it was all over. Lincoln was exonerated for his crimes, they had a boat in Panama, Sara (Michaels love), and the money. Life looked good. Then Agent Kim enters the scene to screw everything up. He has Lincoln and Michael at gunpoint at the boat and is out for blood. Just as he is about to shoot, Sara comes from the back of the boat and shoots Kim in the chest. Kim falls into the water dead. The money falls into the river and is lost. Sirens from the Panama police are heard in the distance (from when Mahone made the call about two Americans shooting an Asian-American male.) Things don’t look good. Michael and Sara run and Lincoln escapes in the other direction. Michael takes the fall for the murder and is thrown into Sona Prison, the worst of the worst, and no one has ever escaped.
Season 3 wasn’t exactly my favorite, but it was still interesting enough. The entire season is about Michael trying to free a man named James Whistler. The Company wants Whistler out of Sona and is holding Lincoln’s son and Sara as collateral until Michael complies. Michael doesn’t exactly have a lot of time, and Sona is the kind of place where inmates regularly die from feuds. Lincoln is working on the outside to help Michael, but things aren’t easy…heck, when are they in this show? Lincoln decides to try and find his son and Sara before they are killed, and after Sara gave the brothers a clue as to where she was, Lincoln investigates. He finds where they are held, but fails to free them by seconds. Gretchen Morgan, the woman holding the two captives, decides to send Michael and Lincoln a message for their insolence, so she cuts off Sara’s head and puts it in a box for Lincoln to find. This was easily the most darkly intense moment of the season. Still, the long and short of it is this: Michael escapes with Whistler and Whistler leaves with Gretchen.
In Season 4, we find Michael devoting his entire focus to finding Gretchen and Whistler. His rage after finding out Gretchen beheaded Sara is palpable. You can tell in his eyes that he wants to do the same to Gretchen that she did to his beloved. Immediately in the episode, Michael has done just that. He has caught up with the two of them and cornered them at gunpoint. Gretchen then explains something phenomenal. We find out that Sara was never killed. Sara escaped, and Gretchen didn’t want to lose credibility on the brothers. As a follower of the show, I was very pleased that they didn’t kill Sara off.
Season 4 is all about taking The Company down. A team is put together, The Brothers, Sucre (Michael's cellmate in Fox river Prison), Mahone, Brad Bellick, Sara, and Roland Glenn, the techy. The team was put together by Homeland Security Agent Don Self. This season, in my opinion, was the most complex. The Company, the reason for SO many deaths surrounding each member of the team, was finally being taken down. Each member had a reason to take down the company. Each member knew someone killed by The Company to carry out The Company’s selfish plans.
The season ends with The Company being taken down and justice coming to those responsible. Still, you feel like you have to take a deep breath after it all comes to a slow. The scene where Michael is at the table about to hand over Scylla (The Company’s black book and patented ecological technologies worth billions) in exchange for exoneration, you can see it in his face…he is tired. Just as you think it’s all about to go bad once more, Michael says, “I’m tired of running…” And he hands over Scylla. His team is fully exonerated and their families safe. Everything that they had been fighting for the past 4 years was finally coming into fruition. As a viewer, it felt good. Like taking a deep breath after tense lungs are relaxed. If you were a watcher of the show, you know how it ends. I feel like the ending is very appropriate and beautiful.
By the way I would like to say Thank you to Admin Caution for letting me borrow his Netflix account.
And lastly, did you know Michael Scofield is gay in real life.
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