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Prison Break - Season One
Average Customer Review : 5.0/5 based on 212 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
Season one of Prison Break is great television. Here's the set-up. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is framed and wrongfully convicted for assassinating the Vice President's brother. Lincoln's brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who just happens to have designed Illinois' Fox River Penitentiary where Lincoln is on death row, hatches an elaborate escape plan. Michael's plan involves getting himself incarcerated in Fox River and smuggling the prison's blueprints by having them hidden in tattoos that cover his entire torso. Once inside, Michael must form alliances with a rogue's gallery of felons with their own sometimes unsavory motives. Meanwhile, on the outside, Lincoln's lawyer and one-time girlfriend Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney), pursued by Secret Service agents, attempts to unravel the conspiracy that sent her man to the slammer.
Prison Break is anchored by tight, suspenseful writing clearly relished by the largely little-known cast. Standouts include Robert Knepper as the murderer/pedophile T-Bag, who somehow makes such a despicable character likeable. Stacey Keach of Mike Hammer fame plays the warden-with-a-heart-of-gold, who clashes with Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) over whether to rehabilitate the inmates or makes their lives more miserable. Peter Stormare, famous for his skills with a wood chipper in Fargo, turns in a deliciously menacing performance as mob boss John Abruzzi, while Amaury Nolasco's winsome Fernando Sucre shares a cell and secrets with Miller's Scofield. Watching the show one gets a sense that this is the opening salvo of Wentworth Miller's career, which will doubtless include roles as assassins, detectives, super heroes, and perhaps the champion of staring contests. Midway through the season it's explained that Scofield is a genius with an heightened sensitivity to other peoples' suffering, which sums up what makes the show so great--the mind-bendingly intricate plot is a framework for moments when people make others suffer and cope with the burden of their own suffering.
The six-disc set includes 22 addictive episodes, audio commentary on selected episodes, three featurettes, and alternate and deleted scenes. As with most TV shows on DVD, the "previously on Prison Break" intros can get tiresome, but that's what the fast forward button is for. --Ryan Boudinot
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Spotlight Reviews
Best season so far (2009-01-07)
Customer Review : 5
I am writing this review mid season 4 and I have to say that season 1 is still the best BY FAR. The suspense and the action are outrageous in this season. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
A Great Action Series (2008-12-28)
Customer Review : 5
'Prison Break' is a well written series that is addictive.
It features Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield, who is determined to break his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), out of prison. Scofield believes that Burrows has been wrongly convicted of a murder for which he faces the death penalty. Michael is a structural engineer with inside knowledge of the construction of the Fox River Correctional Facility. Additionally, he has gotten the blueprints of the facility tattooed all over his body.
Along with the blueprints, Scofield has concocted several other elements of an elaborate plan for the breakout. In order to succeed, he is forced to recruit several other prisoners for their unique contributions.
Scofield's nemesis is a sadistic correctional captain, Brad Bellick (Wade Williams). He not only dislikes Scofield, but will go to great lengths to make his life miserable.
The casting in this series is superb. In addition to the actors mentioned above, two other standouts in this area are mob enforcer John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) and pedophile/murderer T-Bag (Robert Knepper). The casting director of this show has done a great job.
The plot itself is packed with action and suspense. It will keep viewers interested througout.
This is a show that would likely be enjoyed by anyone who loves action, suspense, and/or prison stories.
fabuloso!!!!!!!!!!! (2008-11-18)
Customer Review : 5
This purchase had been a long time coming. I'm glad I decided to buy on Amazon. It was affordable and the seller was very prompt. Thanks!!!!!!
Season One of My Favorite TV show (2008-11-09)
Customer Review : 5
Shows such as Prison Break, Heroes, Lost, the old X-files are, to a significant degree, reflections of how many of us perceive the world around us during these uncertain and unsettled times:
- larger portions of our lives are influenced or even controlled by high-level entities or organizations who now have the means to implement their agendas
- things are almost never what they seem because hidden forces are at work
- only very few insiders completely understand and control and set the agendas for these all-controlling entities
- we should consider ourselves lucky if we can figure out the who's and the how's that change our world but we may never get to know the why's
- these hidden and mysterious 'powers that be' plot, plan and act globally
On 'Season 1' Michael Scowfield gets himself convicted so that he can be sent to prison so that he can help his brother, who is (unjustly) on death row, escape. Does it sound over-complicated? It does, because it is. While working on the escape, Michael, a control freak and a genius, interacts with a dozen inmate characters, ranging from mid-level Mafia types, to unjustly convicted, to unlucky, to mentally deranged, to truly sadistic, vicious murderers. And, there's the world outside. He has friends who help him and his brother has extremely powerful enemies - how does the President of the U.S. look like, when we think of enemies? Well... she's far from being the most powerful because there is this mysterious 'company', controlled by we don't know exactly whom attempting to implement some agenda we are not aware of (see the first paragraphs of this review for more clarifications).
We own seasons 1, 2, and 3 already and we are looking forward for the upcoming Season 4 release - sorry, there's way too much suspense for me to watch this on TV, one weekly hour at a time.
AWESOME SHOW! (2008-10-30)
Customer Review : 5
I just started watching this show a few months ago, and it is AMAZING! I love the acting as well as the production. I have flown through the past 3 seasons because I couldn't stop watching them!!!!
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