Ah, yes. This was much better.
I’ve been working my way through the two first seasons of “Prison Break” the last couple of weeks and finished watching the second one a couple of days ago. I wasn’t too much impressed with the quality of the first season, but the second one started off really good and just kept going. That doesn’t exclude the fact that it was a bumpy ride and that I fell out of the car a few times, but sometimes even falling out at sixty miles per hour can be enjoyable. The same goes for “Prison Break”.
The second season continues where the first season left off. The eight convicts above have managed to break out of Fox River and are now on the run to keep out of Fox River. Micheal is still convinced of his brother’s, Lincoln Burrows, innocence, and will stop at nothing to prove it to the world. But the world isn’t listening, cos the people they’re up against are much too powerful to be brought down by a couple of low-lives like Scofield and Burrows…
The best thing about the first season of “Prison Break” was the exciting episodes that always started and ended with somebody hanging off the proverbial cliff. The same thing goes for season two, even at times raising the bar from what they’d done in the previous episodes.
Overall you can actually point out that the show has gotten better at just about everything. We don’t have to spend nearly every second in the same three prison sets like we did in the first season, cos now we’ve got the whole of America to choose from. The characters also get more flesh on their bones as we they set the spotlight on their own personal problems. My favourite ex-prisoner is without doubt T-Bag (even though he creeps me out something fierce), and he’s particularly awesome in this season. Characters like Fernando Sucre and C-Note, who were nothing special in the first season, are quite good in this one, but none of the escaped convicts can match the FBI agent Alexander Mahone; a good actor playing a very good part and I thoroughly enjoyed every second of him.
However, I still think that Scofield and Burrows are very mediocre actors and that the show had been much better if they’d casted someone who had more to play on then their good looks.
The logical errors in this season do exist, yet they’re not that obvious nor as annoying as the ones in the first season. If I was in charge of this show, I’d have called it quits towards the end and wrapped everything up. Even though the show has gotten better, I felt like the concept was quickly losing my interest and I have no interest whatsoever in watching a third season. But apparently, that’s just me…
7,5 /10
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I believe you mean “they’re” in the first sentence of the last paragraph. (since you’ve asked me to point out that kind of thing when it’s the most blatantly horrendous)
“I felt like the concept was quickly losing my interest and I have no interest whatsoever in watching a third season. But apparently, that’s just me…”
I felt a little like that at the most repetitive points of season 1, but I did not feel that at the end of season 2, no, sorry.
I like this season. Mahone is amazing from the very first scene, T-Bag reaches new hights, and boring C-Note and Sucre get a little less boring. And Bellock starts becoming interesting too. Of course, they killed off the wrong guy in Stormare, but I believe that was the actor’s request, so… couldn’t be helped I guess.
I’m very interested to see what you’ll think of the third season. They’ve managed to keep it fresh so far, but they really need to do something big in the next couple of episodes if it’s not to become repetitive like season 1 did. (It hasn’t so far, it’s in fact very captivatingly exciting and fresh, but it’s also continously hovering along the edge of getting trapped in the status quo)
Thanks for the that, Loki. Can’t catch all of those pesky errors, can one?
I seriously doubt that I’ll watch season 3 of Prison Break any time soon. It just doesn’t interest me enough to bother someone with downloading them, but maybe someday I’ll get a chance to watch them on DVD…
Right now I’m going to do “Dexter”, season 2. Methinks it’s gonna blow my brains out
Dexter is on a certain list of mine over on my weblog, feel encouraged to drop by with a comment and a recommendation.
As for season 3, so far I’d rank it approximately the same as season 2, but with a little more to live up to due to the stronger precursor-season it builds from. So the degree of effort you should put into getting to watch it depends entirely on how much you liked season 2, really.
Oh, and for the record, I believe I’d have given season 2 a very weak 8,0 on the grade-system, so we’re approximately on the same page. (My liking Scofield and to a certain extent Burrows more than you do is probably what amounts for the extra 0,5) If I remember correctly I’d place season 1 as a very strong 6,5 or possibly a 7. So far I’d say season 3 is on a very shaky 7,5 which could tip up to an 8 or down to a 7 with little effort.
I would drop by and give you a recommendation, but I don’t know how much help I’d be. You know which shows I’ve watched and how I felt about them from reading my blog here. From the list you offered on your blog I’d strongly recommend “Dexter”, but you already know that I think that show is the awesome, and since I’m not especially familiar with the other choices, I didn’t bother to comment
(Would like to see a review of “Dead Like Me” on your blog, though. I’m running low on choices of what to watch after I’ve done season 2 of “Dexter” and rewatched season 3 of “House”. I thought that I’d maybe give B5 a go, but that show is so long that it’d fit better to watch it during the summer…)
I’m currently watching season 2 of DLM, recently finished season 1, a review should be up by the end of next week. Maybe even by the end of today, who knows. I’d also like to make a post on season 2 and 3 of House M.D., season 1 of the Sopranos and BSG: Razor in the near future, as well as a bunch of movies.
A lot of stuff to write, eh? I tried to write reviews of season 1&2 of “House” when I watched it back in September 07, but I couldn’t find any good way to do it. There’s just something inexplicable about that show which makes it very hard to review (at least for me…).
I never reviewed season 1 due to seeing it on NRK, all slowly and divided out over so many months, I felt I couldn’t form a fair opinion on the wholeness of it. I watched it as an on-going, and my M.O. with tv-reviews is basically to review anything I watch in big chunks by season, and everything I watch as on-goings by episode whenever one particularily strikes my fancy – usually meaning I’ll report on the season openings and finales and therein also mention some thoughts on the season as a whole.
Season 2 and 3 – and what’s been out so far of 4 – however, I’ve watched pretty tightly, and thus I’m planning to review.
I adore Scofield
c’est vraiment super et ca nous met dans un état de suspense attendant la quatrième saison que je suis sur qu’elle va venir avec de nouvelles aventures et de nouvelles série de suspense
I am, alas, not what you’d call fluent in the beautiful language called French (aside from the obligatory silliness picked up in pop songs and Monty Python sketches). But from what Babelfish can tell me, the comment from “abdou” says something along the lines of:
“it is really super and Ca puts to us in a state of suspense waiting the fourth season that I am on it will come with new new adventures and series from suspense”
Clearly not the best of translations, but better than nothing. I have, sadly, nothing to remark on the comment, aside from “Yay! I have a french comment!” and that I would presume that the third season was very suspensful indeed. I hope that doesn’t insult anyone
The third season isn’t done yet… but it’s veeery good!
(I mean, for PB it is. Watched the two recentmost eps yesterday, and it’s really enticing)
this is the best ilm that i saw
i love you Prison Break and i think that you are the best…..
i can’s say another words…………….
..elhendy
I wonder why this post is getting this rare amount of attention. It isn’t linked to by any site as far as I can tell, and I highly doubt that any search word combination would bring it very high.
But who cares? Comments = Yay!
Mystery solved. I checked my stats once more, and it would appear that I’ve got some 300 hits from google image search. So that’s another reason to include pictures in my blog posts!
i want the 4th seasOn PlZzZzZzZzZZzzzzzZZZZZ
You’ll get it. No way the studios let such a money-maker die on them. It’s the “old-but-true”-shows I’m worried about, the ones with a sizeable following but not a broad general audience. Big hits like “Lost”, “24″ and “Prison Break” will never be too badly affected by the strike. But “Scrubs” running into this in the middle of their last season worries me, as do new and promising shows like “Chuck”. And “Heroes” has already gotten its second season wounded by it.
I was wondering if there are going to be any more season ’s of Prison Break
because last night’s Season 3 Finale looked like the end of the show, so if anybody has any information it would be of much help to me.
As far as I know, nothing is definite, but they’re likely to bring the show back, either for a fourth season or to continue the third. (Personally, I consider the former to be the most likely). No guarantees, though, there’s been no official statement that it’s being brought back is a certainty to my knowledge. Still, it seems likely that they’d keep it going, it’s a rather big hit.
ttt
Apparently, “ttt”, is an acronym for “Thought that too”, which is a nice sentiment but hardly worthy of a comment.
(I’m French !!!)
It’s very, very, very coooooooooool.
I love Prison Break, because there are many of suspence!!!!!
Slogant young: Break prison, the series which tears!!!
XD The series that causes tears, the series that tears you up, or a series of tears?
No matter what, Loki, you got to hand it to her for being “French !!!”. I wish I could say I am “Norwegian !!!” with the same aplomb.
You could’ve if we hadn’t been so watered out by years of oppression by the Danish and their pesudo-Danish wannabe heirs in Oslo.
Vestlandsparti!