Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Prison Break (2005-2017)

Genre: TV / Drama
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Sarah Wayne Callies
Number of seasons: 5



Lincoln Burrows is sent to prison and sentenced to death for the killing of the brother of the Vice-President of the United States; a crime he never committed. His brother, Michael Scofield, a brilliant structural engineer, gets himself thrown into the same prison, the Fox River State Penitentiary, with the purpose of breaking him out of there before he gets executed. Whether it is inside the prison or outside of its walls, a major fight for freedom and truth is going on. Loyalties are being tested constantly.

The two main actors, Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, have such great on-screen chemistry as brothers who have only had each other to depend on since childhood. Now, they will have each other’s back at all costs. Both brothers are polar opposites, but you can easily feel, through the acting and the storytelling, that link that will forever unite them. I particularly dug the Scofield character, a man who does not have the brawns so he uses his brains. He is always multiple moves ahead in his head, which makes him a threat to many people.

The supporting cast is also very solid. There are too many actors and actresses to name them all, but there are so many good performances here. Character development is a very important aspect in Prison Break; so many layers, with people switching sides in the war depending on their stake in the matter. In some cases, we go from hate to love and back and forth in regards to characters, but, come what may, we always care what happens to these fictional people.

As good as the character development is in Prison Break, some plot twists left me scratching my head a little bit. The story took a few turns for the weird, especially in the last season. But, by the end of it all, it was brought to a good conclusion, filled with emotion and intensity. 
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