As I mentioned in a previous post, the Prison Break Season One DVD set goes on sale tomorrow. It comes highly recommended. There were only three shows I HAD to watch the night it aired last season, and Break was one of them.
I hate the cliche of it being a roller coaster ride, but it really was. Twists and turns abound. Every epsiode ended in some sort of cliffhanger (and the pilot ended with one of the coolest things I've ever seen on TV).
I will admit the twists got to be a little too much as the season wound on (I think it was due to the fact that the creators/network had no idea the show would actually make it though an entire season), and I wasn't a big fan of the conspiracy that raised its ugly head, but that is all minor compared to the pluses of the show.
The first plus would be the sheer imagination of the scripts. Yeah, sometimes the season drug on (usually during the scenes outside the prison), and other times things happened that made me say, "Oh, come on!" but those were pretty infrequent-- and there was always something to hold onto during those times that still made this the coolest show on TV last year.
The actors, led by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell are fantastic, and the supporting actors are excellent as well. Special notice has to be made for Peter Stormare, who plays mob heavy John Abruzzi, and Robert Knepper, who plays psychotic-scary Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell. Each time those two were on screen was magic. When they appeared together, it was as if the TV Gods smiled down on fans and said, "Hey, check out how great TV can really be." Yeah, that last sentence was over-the-top-- so what?
I see most places are advertising the show between $36 & $40, so catch it now before it goes up to insane 24-level prices: $60.
Just shut your head off, strap on the seat belt, and enjoy the ride.
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