Prison Break wasn’t supposed to be here, and we all know it. It was supposed to be a one-off, one season gimmick show…but then it blew up. People started watching, ratings and ad buys went up, and Wentworth Miller was known as ‘Pretty’ to many more people than just T-Bag.
So, we got a 2nd season that was radically different from the first, that seemed to come in a lot of main chunks of stories, with an overarching one that seemed to come in a bit late.
We had the race for the money, then the aftermath, with everyone splitting up, the failed escape from the country, which segued nicely into the political/conspiracy part, then another escape from the country that went surprisingly smoothly, a courtroom drama, then everyone gathered inexplicably in Panama of all places for the coup de gras.
I just hope there’s more of a bigger picture type of story this time around, as Season One was, with a clear endpoint in sight that we slowly and agonizingly build towards. Not that I think the writers were making it up as they went with S2 or anything, just needed a more fluid story that didn’t jump around so much…but I guess when you cover that many miles with that many characters, the jumpiness is bound to happen.
Now that coup, of the de gras variety I was talking about before, was absolutely beautiful. It was ironic, poetic, however you want to put it, but really, everyone kind of got what they deserved.
And it set an unbelievable stage for Season Three.
The whole Sona prison concept sounds dynamite, with no guards, prisoners running everything…and just how the prison itself looks. That final scene where Michael walks down the hallway and sees what he really has gotten himself into was one of the more chilling and absolutely wicked scenes of TV I’ve seen in a long time.
Also, one of my favorite parts of Season 1, the prison politics, are back, and this time, they’re a lot deadlier.
I’ve read a few spoilers, which I of course, won’t just go into out of nowhere, wouldn’t do that to you non-spoilery people, wouldn’t want to muck up those squeaky clean minds, but it seems as though there is a few really well-rounded stories right off the bat that involve everyone in a good way.
I hope we can get more into the Company, and the whole conspiracy portion of the show, but I feel like that's coming. Hell, they may just be waiting for Paul Adelstein to come back from the pretty-sure-to-fail Private Practice and seek his revenge (you do have to admit, his death was a tad ambiguous last year, no?)
I for one, cannot wait, as Prison Break will be one of the few shows I really look forward to during the week, on that Lost/Heroes level, and I know it will be an absolute rollercoaster…of one kind or another…
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