Prison Break Spoilers

This week’s new Prison Break episode (2.7: “Buried”) will be the last for a few weeks to accommodate baseball.

The role of Sucre’s girlfriend Maricruz has been cast for a third time because actress Camille Guaty got a part on ABC’s The Nine.  Guaty replaced Nadine Velazquez, who left to star in My Name is Earl. So Maricruz #3 is Six Feet Under’s Melissa Marsala.

Man, with the Maricruz actresses, Patricia Wettig, and John Billingsley all leaving to work on other shows, you’d wonder why Prison Break doesn’t have contracts for its smaller roles—even if it’s “we’ll need you to work on five episodes this season”.  Ah, I don’t know how that works in the TV world—maybe it’s impossible. But it is annoying.

Fairly minor spoilers make up the rest of this post. Just warning you: turn back now if you want to know nothing.













The American Express Preview for this week’s ep:

Doctor Sarah finds out her father, Governor Tancredi, has his nomination to the Vice Presidency withdrawn.  I’m expecting bad things to happen to him since he “caught” Kellerman in Washington.

Haywire appears again. He robs a convenience store.



Spoilers I gleaned from the internet about upcoming episodes. Since these are not “official” (like the Am Ex previews) and probably not sanctioned by the Prison Break team, they could change—and they could also be something more than they want us to know.  Can’t say these spoilers are major, but they do show a pattern for the rest of the episodes this year:






I already posted that T-Bag isn’t one of the remaining seven who die this fall (it happens within the next two episodes), and it can be assumed that Sucre doesn’t as well as the Maricruz role needed to be recast (or, if you read the spoiler for episode 10, like I did, you’d know that Sucre is still alive and is trying to meet with Maricruz). So that leaves Schofield, Lincoln, C-Note, Tweener, and Haywire as the likely deaths (unless we’re completely being misled and it’s someone else—although I’ve been reading that it’s an escapee).

The policewoman who came to Janette’s house in Ep 6 is her daughter. My guess is she gets taken hostage because she was not preparing for trouble as we (of course) were expecting when she showed up last week.

L.J. is supposed to get a “menacing” visitor this week. It must have scared him as Lincoln is redoubling his efforts to break L.J. out, according to the notes on my DVR schedule.

When the show returns after baseball, a new Internal Affairs agent is put on the convict’s trail.  “Agent” Richard Sullens will become a thorn in Mahone’s side when he asks questions like how a convict escaped after being handcuffed in his car (Tweener, anyone?).

And in the ninth episode, Schofield visits Mahone’s ex-wife (I guess that means Schofield doesn’t die, either) to get some dirt on him.  Apparently even she doesn’t know what happened to her marriage—just that Mahone’s personality changed drastically during their marriage.  The episode has a Mahone press conference about a dead convict interspersed through it.  The conference could have been about a former convict he was hunting or Abruzzi, but my money’s on one of the remaining seven as I’ve read from more than once source that another escapee bites it soon.



And another odd thing I read (coming from a faxed page of script that was dated a long time ago, so who knows if this will happen—or when; but Lincoln is supposed to try to get to L.J. in the next episode):

Lincoln and L.J. escape from a smashed squad car and they start to run, but a van full of guards dressed in black catch them. Lincoln fights, but is stopped when one of the guards (Jane Farrow) says she is on their side and will take them to Lincoln’s father.

I’m not a fan of the whole conspiracy thing, but at least I know there’s something more going on after/while the others are digging for Westmoreland’s money (which is found).

Bad Karma

I recently received the My Name is Earl Season One DVD set for my birthday (thanks, Moe!), and it had an interesting extra: a mini-episode titled “Bad Karma” about what would have happened had Earl watched Family Guy instead of Carson Daly while he was full of painkillers in the hospital.  The episode is about 15 minutes long and loosely follows the “real” Earl pilot’s plot, but instead of Daly’s philosophy of karma, Earl decided to follow Stewie Griffith’s philosophy of revenge.  Earl makes a list not of people he wronged, but of people who wronged him.

And then enacts his plans for revenge.

It was pretty interesting (and funny) to see Earl in a completely different light, but it was even more interesting how the mini-episode felt like a “real” episode of Earl.  

So, if you’ve got $35 or so laying around, the Season One DVD set gets a high recommendation from me.  Not only do you get the first season episodes of the very smart and very funny series, but a little extra as well.

This and That

Odds and Ends (no spoilers contained within—except one, but it’s at the very end—and fair warning is given):

I watched the first episode of Heroes, and it didn’t grab me as I had hoped.  But I know the pilot was meant to be seen as a two-hour movie that eventually was split in half, so I’m hoping the second episode next week pulls it all together (it’s supposed to).  If the first episode was too slow and the previews didn’t convince you to stick around, I’ll ask you myself: just watch next Monday’s episode before you do anything rash. I hear it’s worth the wait.  This show has potential, and I don’t want it to get the ax just yet.

Speaking of getting the ax: Happy Hour became the first casualty of the season (no surprise here—I’ve been voting for it on the TV “Death Pool” website).  While the show is officially on an (unscheduled) hiatus until November, I’m going to bet we don’t see it again.  I’m just mad it broke up with me before I could break up with it (I was giving it one more episode before I dumped it).

I watched the remaining episodes of Who Wants to Be a Super Hero?, and while it was cheesy, and a little self-important (while tongue was firmly in cheek), and a little “set up” in places, and the winner was a little too into it, it was all-around a good show.  Any of the final three would make a great super hero, and it was nice to see.  The heart they showed along with the love and respect they had for each other (and host Stan Lee) was very heart-warming.  In a (reality) TV world where competitions are won through cheating, humiliation, lying, greed, and other lesser human qualities, it was nice to see that none of that was in play here.  It proved that regular people can be better than human—and you don’t need super powers to be a hero.  It was definitely a good experiment.

Finally, I’m excited that Prison Break is back to what made it great last year: twists and turns and “how the heck are they going to get out of this one” moments.  It was great to see a “forgotten” character this week, and it looks as if the heat is turned way up on our boys.  Rumor is: someone dies soon (I’m betting on next episode).  I don’t know who will die, but I’ve heard who won’t.  If you want to know, scroll down.



A little more:




A liiiiittle more:



You must really want to know who doesn’t die:



The one who makes it out alive: T-Bag.

Premieres for 9/25-10/1

Not much here today, so really fast previews.

Monday, 9/25

Seventh Heaven; CW, 7 pm CST. Season Premiere
The most hated show on the CW schedule (because fans of Everwood blame it for Everwood getting the ax).

Runaway; CW 8pm. Series Premiere
I don’t have high hopes for this, but Donnie Wahlberg sold me with Boomtown, so I gotta check it out. Watch.

Heroes; NBC, 8 pm. Series Premiere
The show I’m looking forward to the most this season. I’ve been right with Angel, Boomtown, The Office, and My Name is Earl recently, so I’m pretty sure Heroes will be as good as I’m predicting it to be this year. Must Watch.


Tuesday, 9/26

Gilmore Girls; CW, 7:00.  Season Premiere
I guess this is the best show I’m not watching…

Help Me Help You; ABC, 8:30.  Series Premiere
I’ve heard mixed things about it, but Ted Danson has a good track record. Watch.


Wednesday, 9/27

Lost: A Tale of Survival; ABC, 8:00
Get primed for next week’s premiere with this clip show of highlights of the past two years.

One Tree Hill; CW, 8 pm. Season Premiere
I know nothing about it.


Thursday, 9/28

Ugly Betty; ABC,  7 pm.  Series Premiere
From what I can see, this is the nearly unanimous critic’s choice of best new show of the year. So it’s bound for two things: being really good and being cancelled by January.  Seriously, I haven’t heard a single bad thing about this show about a less-than-attractive young woman who works at a fashion magazine. Must Watch.

Smallville; CW, 7pm. Season Premiere
Clark’s in the Phantom Zone.  This season also sees the beginnings of the Justice League.

Supernatural; CW, 8 pm. Season Premiere
I guess as an in-joke, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who died on a hospital bed in the Grey’s Anatomy’s season-ender in May is Sam & Dean’s dad—and is in a hospital bed in this season premiere. I don’t know: I find it funny.

Friday, 9/29 Quickies:

DeGrassi, The Next Generation; The N, 7 pm. Season Premiere
Meerkat Manor; Animal Planet, 7 pm. Season Premiere
Doctor Who; SciFi, 7pm and 8:30 pm; Original Special and then Season Premiere
Boston PD; Spike, 9 pm; 4-Part Reality series; Series Premiere
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team; CMT, 8pm. Series Premiere.


Saturday, 9/30

Saturday Night Live; NBC, 10:30 pm. Season Premiere
I’ll watch for two reasons: 1. To see if Dane Cook can overcome that horsecrap episode of SNL he was on last year.  And 2. Because the writers and cast have been overhauled.
Can this show get any worse? I want to see this car wreck.


Sunday, 10/1

CW season premieres: Everybody Hates Chris (6 pm), All of Us (6:30), Girlfriends (7:00)

The Game; CW, 7:30; Series Premiere

Dexter; Showtime, 9pm. Series Premiere
I wish I still had Showtime. This series about a forensics agent who hunts down and kills serial killers sounds interesting.