Quite how Knepper made, and still continues to make, viewers care about such a despicable character while showing glimpses of his humanity and hurt is a mystery. Wentworth Miller, whose career was on a fast track to nowhere before it received a much-needed boost in CW's The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, seems to be having the time of his life. Perhaps, like Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers or David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Miller will, for good or bad, always be associated with the role of Michael Scofield.ĭitto Robert Knepper as Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell, everyone's favourite bisexual racist, pedophile, rapist (can't believe I'm typing those words).
The city is under siege by Islamic State fighters and Michael is accused of being a terrorist himself, in league with the Islamic State.Īs for the first two episodes, there's good news and bad.įirst the good: It's delightful to see the gang back together, effortlessly slipping into the characters we've all come to know and love. A quick couple of assassination attempts later, Lincoln follows the clues Michael has left from "beyond the grave" to a prison in Yemen. Naturally, he approaches Michael's big brother Lincoln, who begins to investigate. He receives a mysterious letter containing a picture of Michael Scofield, alive and well. The plot for Season 5 then: Seven years after Michael sacrifices himself for his family to ensure their escape, Thedore 'T-Bag' Bagwell is released from prison. Why go through the rigmarole of creating new, intriguing characters when you can have the never ending adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow or any number of X-Men. Studios know that, above all, what the audience is looking for is the familiar. We are living, after all, in the age of sequels and prequels. It makes sense to revive Prison Break now.
#PRISON BREAK SEASON 5 EPISODE 1 ONLINE WATCH TV#
The show finally ended, not with a bang, but the worst of all whimpers: A made for TV movie.
The writers couldn't handle their runaway train, which veered off tracks. The less said about seasons 3 and 4, however, the better. It was very, very good, although it fell short of the original season. That momentum carried to Season 2, which dealt with the aftermath of the escape. It was perhaps, the most entertaining first season of any TV show in history. And carrying the prison's blueprints by literally tattooing them on his body. So he comes up with a plan: Breaking his brother out. He isn't going to let him die for a crime he didn't commit. He's also convinced of his brother's innocence. His brother happens to be in the same jail, languishing on death row, convicted (perhaps, wrongly) for the murder of the brother of the vice-president of the United States. Michael Scofield, a structural engineer, gets himself sent to prison.
I can still remember the sheer audacity of its premise. They were still in the DVD rental business. Ironically, online streaming was not even a gleam in Netflix's eye at the time. It was, arguably, the first binge watch show in history. Remember the days before Netflix made binge-watching a way of life? In 2005, you had to actually wait days for each new episode of a TV show, sometimes even weeks if not months.
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