“Hmmm…hmm…”Besides Wentworth Miller’s sexy quotient, the other great thing about Prison Break is its ability to make you suspend your belief and still believe. Unfortunately, the previous season wasn’t that gripping–the gang, led by Miller’s Michael Scofield, ended up in a heavily secure Panama prison called Sona and well, to sum it up, the lieutenant (?) from The Wire who started that whole Hamsterdam experiment played a Jamaican inmate overlord. This season’s bad actor is Michael Rappaport, who I guess fits into the show perfectly since you have to suspend your belief that he’s a good actor. Thank goodness this season is going better than last. I won’t say the writing is great (The Wire remains my favorite TV series ever in that department), but as sure as Joe Biden gets Botox injections, Prison Break is the ish. Mondays at 9pm ET.
“What makes this so much damned fun are bright exteriors, crisp cutting, outrageous action sequences, and, most of all, the acting ensemble. I especially enjoy William Fichtner as Alex Mahone — Fichtner’s probably the best character actor on TV. These guys play it straight, so the audience does the same. There’s also a crazy existential subtext: No matter what these hapless escapees do or how fast they run, they always end up…booya!…back in prison.” (Stephen King: Why I Love ‘Prison Break’)
