That’s the problem I’m seeing creeping into this season.
Give us something that’s uniquely Prison Break! These characters should be using their smarts before their fists.
This kind of action is fun but it feels like it could be happening on any other action drama. Also throwing in a near rape scene didn’t do much to help. Yeah, last week there was some solid tension but here I was just kind of bored with it. I could watch that guy do… Well do pretty much anything! Even if it basically amount to “I have some vague information” Robert Knepper is so good in the part he makes it work. At least T-Bag was around to sweeten the scenes up. Again, the government plot does nothing for me. Which by the way, can we just take a quick side note? So apparently since Michael’s death he’s been working for the government to bust CIA agents out of prison? Does that mean prison breaking is legit Michael’s profession now? If so that is amazing.īut seriously, why has he not contacted Sara before now? Yeah yeah, it’s part of the bigger mystery but he couldn’t have rung her up before now? Come on, man! With only six episodes left in this season do we have enough time to build up to another huge escape? Prison Break was always about stretching that tension over time and I’m worried that it’s going to rush the eventual climatic prison break. Sure, in Panama he didn’t plan to be in prison but he had a few episodes to figure out a game plan. He’s really truly screwed and we’ve never seen Michael in a position like that. Seeing his reaction at the end and his tearful “final” call to Sara convincingly sold this isn’t just part of Michael’s grand plan. Michael’s old intricate plans were meant to fail so now he has to think on his feet without any backups. The show could be playing with our expectations. Now part of me thinks this was intentional.