prison escape-related stories
Posted Mar 5th 2007 10:53PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E19) After all of my complaining through the past few episodes ... OK, the entire season thus far, I'm happy to admit that this episode was actually well done. No huge loopholes worth dwelling on and a couple of surprises to boot. Heck, before this episode I was dreading what would be coming next, when now I'm looking forward to it.
The recording we were waiting to hear was ... unexpected. I'm not sure I could have predicted that. I'm a bit confused as to why such information would make any difference to her when she was planning to leave the presidency anyway. Was it just the embarrassment of the situation? Does she have other plans?
Continue reading Prison Break: Sweet Caroline
Posted Feb 26th 2007 10:17PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E18) Someone commented last week about my
Prison Break review, saying it was possibly the shortest review ever on TV Squad. Well, it certainly wasn't the shortest, but I have to wonder what more could have been said?
Seriously, I sometimes ask myself why I tune in every Monday to watch this show. It's just that I feel as though I've invested so much time into this show as it is, and I'm just waiting for the payoff. But will there be a payoff? And when will the end be?
Let's discuss the good and bad points of this episode...
Continue reading Prison Break: Wash
Posted Feb 19th 2007 10:35PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E17) Damn, that felt good. Seriously, the best part of the season was in the second half of this episode, when Bill Kim got a beat down by the front end of an SUV and then Lincoln's fist a few times. It's almost too bad he didn't get a few slugs in the process, but we already knew that wouldn't happen ... yet.
This was actually one of the better episodes of the season, though not without its own set of problems.
Continue reading Prison Break: Bad Blood
Posted Feb 5th 2007 10:41PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E16) I guess for those of us who assumed Haywire would be the only one to find his way to freedom, maybe we weren't all that far off.
As much as I'm sad to see Haywire gone, it was a fitting end for him. As short as the scene was, it was actually one of the more well done moments of the show so far. We get a sense for how Mahone feels having to always run away while mirroring Haywire's feelings of being caught in a maze like a rat. What worries me now is how quickly they're killing off interesting characters from this show.
Continue reading Prison Break: Chicago
Posted Jan 22nd 2007 10:48PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E14) First thing's first, you have to love the title of this episode -- anyone who knows Dominic Purcell's past might get a chuckle out of that.
It's hard to get entirely excited about this show these days, when so many other shows I love come crashing out of the gates with season premiere-like episodes to kick off the second half of their seasons. This episode wasn't what I'd call super-stellar, though it had its moments.
Continue reading Prison Break: John Doe
Posted Nov 27th 2006 10:27PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E13) I didn't really pay much attention to the previews last week, so I didn't see it coming when Mike and Linc were taken into custody. Of course it makes more sense that something like that would happen, given how last week ended, since clearly we couldn't have Mahone going on killing the two of them.
Somehting that sort of occurred to me: Why is Mahone trying to kill them when it seems like it might actually be easier to kill William Kim? Would he think that those who work with/for Kim would still carry out the hit on his family? I guess that could be the case, but with Mahone's attitude it seems he'd feel a lot better killing Kim than the two brothers.
Continue reading Prison Break: The Killing Box
Posted Nov 20th 2006 11:03PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E12) It seems we have conflicting reports on what's going to happen to the remainder of the season for
Prison Break. On one hand we have a
report that we'll see the show continue without interruption for a while longer, while on the other hand the network is saying that next week is the "fall finale." So which is it really? Maybe it's both, and the show will just continue past this "fall finale" into the next week?
Anyway, I digress. Let's get to this episode.
Continue reading Prison Break: Disconnect
Posted Nov 13th 2006 11:01PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E11) Finally, the accursed hand is gone! I know, I know. It seems like such a small detail, but a hand sewed on by a doggy doctor has been bugging me on this show for weeks now, and to see it gone, no matter how it happened, is just a little satisfying I guess.
Continue reading Prison Break: Bolshoi Booze
Posted Nov 6th 2006 10:49PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E10) I didn't realize this until tonight, but it's actually a good thing for Lincoln that he got caught, and only we know it. At least in the way he was caught Mahone didn't have a chance to outright kill him. Last week I just assumed for some reason that he was done for and he'd be going to trial next season, but so far I'm wrong on that count.
Continue reading Prison Break: Rendezvous
Posted Oct 23rd 2006 9:42PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E08) A commenter a few weeks ago mentioned they thought Sucre and Michael are in on a scheme together, where it was planned all along for Sucre to take the money and meet up with Michael and Lincoln in a later episode. Looks like they weren't far off. Though I will say it would've been pretty cool if they could've pulled off fooling us for an entire season.
Continue reading Prison Break: Dead Fall
Posted Sep 25th 2006 8:55PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E06) So, did it make a difference that I had this post up a bit earlier for you all? I guess it seems probably not.
So we're back to digging again, and I have to say that Micheal's explanation of where the thought the silo was just seemed a bit too impractical. To be able to pinpoint it so closely with only what T-Bag had to tell him?
Continue reading Prison Break: Subdivision
Posted Sep 18th 2006 11:21PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E05) If I had to pick out one person who I'd like to see make it on the outside, so far it'd be C-Note. He's at least smart enough to not look so suspicious all the time, fronts a friendly demeanor and uses his head. Everyone else looks overly guilty all the time, including Michael. It's no wonder everyone looks at them funny.
Speaking of everyone looking at them funny, when's the last time you saw photos of a prison escapee from across the country? I mean, I know there have been prison escapes before, but hell if I could ever remember what they look like. It seems these guys are instant celerities all over the country.
Continue reading Prison Break: Map 1213
Posted Aug 28th 2006 10:51PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E02) So now the escapees are splitting up even more, which is actually a good thing for us viewers, since there's a lot more potential for better stories along the way. And once again, the writers get cutely creative when it comes to naming their episodes.
I forgot to mention last week that I'm glad someone finally mentioned how idiotic it is that C-Note is looking to see his family and Sucre wants to see his girlfriend. That bugged me all last season, and I'm glad Abruzzi was the one to point it out to everyone.
Continue reading Prison Break: Otis
Posted Aug 21st 2006 10:03PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S02E01) Damn, I love when the fall season starts up again! And what makes it even sweeter is having things start with a show I'm a fan of, regardless of how much I seem to consistently bash it. Case in point -- I was really bothered by how this episode started out. It's as though everything we saw at the
end of the first season was forgotten. The escapees were last seen running across an totally open field at night, with helicopters and multitudes of law enforcement hot on their heels. And now we open with the inmates running through the woods, in the daytime, with no choppers in sight. In fact, so few police were chasing the crew that they're able to get away by ducking around a passing train. Grrrr! How I wish to hate thee,
Prison Break!
Continue reading Prison Break: Manhunt (season premiere)
Posted May 15th 2006 10:23PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, Prison Break
(S01E22) The last three episodes of this show made up for one long, long season. Sometimes when I sit to catch a TV show at night, I'm looking to relax. That just didn't seem possible for the past two Mondays now. What will I do to make my Mondays so stressful, now that the season's over?
Something that's quite obvious about this show is that Michael will never be taken lightly by the authorities, having let convicted felons loose. Even if he returns them to jail, how much time money he's caused everyone to hunt them down will be enough to lock him away forever. So, simply put, no matter what Michael does at this point, this show cannot end with an "all's forgiven" for Michael.
Continue reading Prison Break: Flight (finale)
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