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Louise

Prison Break

By Louise, in General Chat

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Joe.

Joe.

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Just watched it. Moving on slowly but surely...

Thought we were going to lose him there!

Had to add the spoiler just in case I ruined for those inquisitive few... ;)

Bert

Bert

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Good.

I'm guessing this one HAS to be the last series yes?

Here's hoping mate.

Bert

Bert

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I'm glad you've not changed your views on this. :D

I've been informed I'm watching this tomorrow - Hand-cuffed and gagged. So I can't move or speak.

Libertine

Libertine

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I've been informed I'm watching this tomorrow - Hand-cuffed and gagged. So I can't move or speak.

Oh Jebus.

I'll be thinking of you, whilst your retinas are detaching. :(

:P

Bert

Bert

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Oh Jebus.

I'll be thinking of you, whilst your retinas are detaching. :(

:P

Easiest hour's kip I'll ever get.

syston_fox

syston_fox

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I don't know what to make of this anymore.

- Season one was awesome

- Season two was a bit.... meh

- First half of season three was up there with season one

- End of season three .... bit pants really.

Wont be bothering with season four for a while I dont think!

Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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I don't know what to make of this anymore.

- Season one was awesome

- Season two was a bit.... meh

- First half of season three was up there with season one

- End of season three .... bit pants really.

Wont be bothering with season four for a while I dont think!

Season 4 is probably the best season yet bar perhaps the first one. It really is exceptional.

Uncle Albert

Uncle Albert

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Great episode on Christmas Eve, nice ending to lead into the mid-season break now. Cant wait for it to come back now though with this new twist. Gets better and better this series does.

Season 1 and 4 are both quality. Season 2 is good and 3 is average because the whole point was to get onto this current season as quickly as possible because if they dragged 3 out then people would lose alot of interest in the show.

  • 2 weeks later...
Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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Hooray! Hooray for Prison Break (Mon, 10pm, Five), because it's wholly bloody stupid and doesn't care who knows it! In fact, it's SO ridiculous, it might just single-handedly usher in an all-new golden age of inanity, thereby confounding anyone who thought society had reached its ultimate idiocy threshold a few years ago with the invention of novelty ringtones.

Prison Break is possibly the dumbest story ever told. It makes 24 look like cinéma vérité. It's as realistic as a cotton-wool tiger riding a tractor through a teardrop. I've played abstract Japanese platform games with more convincing storylines. And the American public recently voted it Favourite New TV Drama at the People's Choice Awards. Suddenly, the farcical tragedy of current world events makes perfect sense. I'm not saying the Americans are stupid. They're not. All I'm saying is a substantial number of them may well have lost their minds. Centuries from now, historians will cite Prison Break as the quintessential artefact of a civilisation sliding into absolute babbling madness. It's that good.

The set-up is as follows. Justin Timberlake has a problem - he's not called Justin Timberlake any more. He's called Wentworth Miller and he's a structural engineer. But that's not the problem. His brother's the problem. His brother's a Clive Owen lookalike with jawbones so square he looks like he's trying to hide a box in his mouth - and he's on death row for murdering the vice president. Except he didn't do it! He's the victim of a shadowy conspiracy! And only Justin Timberlake knows the truth!

Now, Justin loves his brother. Loves him with the kind of unquestioning intensity mere acting, dialogue and direction can't possibly hope to convey. So he cooks up a plan. Step one: he robs a bank - and gets caught on purpose!

Following the trial, Justin's lawyer (and close personal friend) can't work out why the previously intelligent, mild-mannered structural engineer would do such a thing. More perplexingly still, he seemed to actively welcome his prison sentence. "This just isn't like him," she muses. "He just rolled over - he didn't put up a fight." Two qualities that should prove handy in prison.

But he hasn't gone crazy. He's simply entering step two of his plan - because he's now in the same prison as his brother! And he's going to help him escape! It all sounds like the sort of scheme Elmer Fudd might dream up while drunk. It isn't. It's far stupider than that. You'd need a supercomputer to work out all the drawbacks.

But Justin has an ace up his sleeve - an ace that might, in our universe, be considered implausible: he designed the prison himself. Remember I said he was a structural engineer? For Whopping Contrivance, Inc? Well he is. So prior to committing his armed robbery, he had the prison blueprints tattooed all over his body! Brilliant!

Hilariously, Justin is so certain of success, he actually enters the prison with a smirk on his face. This immediately irritates a guard, who asks him whether he's religious man. No, says Justin. "Good," replies the guard, "Because the Ten Commandments don't mean a box of piss in here." The dialogue continues in this vein for the rest of the programme and, I hope, the entire series.

And so it begins - headlong we plunge, headlong into the very maw of folly. Gasp! as Justin has a fight with the tall scary bloke from Fargo. Coo! as Justin bonds with the absurdly cute female prison doctor! Cry! as the governor begs Justin to help him construct a matchstick model of the Taj Mahal for his 40th wedding anniversary!

I'm not making this up. All of this happens in the pilot episode. It's like they took a two-year-old to see The Shawshank Redemption, asked him to recount the plot three weeks later, wrote down everything he said, and filmed it. It's flabbergasting.

Got the stomach for it? Then tuck in. But tread lightly. Because Prison Break is so astronomically dumb it could genuinely damage your brain.

God bless Charlie Brooker

  • 2 months later...
maddog

maddog

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Back in the US April 17th. Been confirmed it's the last series :(

Thank fook for that they have totally ruined it with the extra seasons.

Originally they only set out to do 2 seasons, then saw the £££££££££ so made more seasons.

The 1st season was utterly compelling and superb, the second season was very good, the 3rd season was shit, and the 4th season awful.

A little bit like lost, but so far lost season 5 has been a fantastic watch, hopefully prison break season 5 will be better.

lildave3

lildave3

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Thank fook for that they have totally ruined it with the extra seasons.

Originally they only set out to do 2 seasons, then saw the £££££££££ so made more seasons.

The 1st season was utterly compelling and superb, the second season was very good, the 3rd season was shit, and the 4th season awful.

A little bit like lost, but so far lost season 5 has been a fantastic watch, hopefully prison break season 5 will be better.

Well i've loved all of them.

This is still Series 4.

  • 4 weeks later...
lildave3

lildave3

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It's been that long i can't even remember what happened. lol

I watched the last ep before the break the other day on Sky Anytime just to refresh my memory :D

Missed it last night, repeated tonight on Sky2 - Will be watching.

lee7

lee7

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I can't believe i forgot that this was on last night, i'd been looking forward to the new episodes then i missed the first one :doh:

at least it's on tonight.

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