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Best TV on.. uhm... TV: Prison Break

Today’s show in my series of great television that I currently watch is one that Sarah and Caleb turned me on to way back when it was in Season 1. It has the same intellectual problem solving that draws me to watch House, tension in the forms of a mystery organization that will shoot our heroes on sight and the constant run from the law, and as last post... a hott doctor. I am, of course, talking about Prision Break.

Prison Break

First off, Sarah Wayne Callie, who plays Sara Tancredi.

So apparently all you need to get me to watch your tv show is have a gorgeous, intelligent brunette as a secondary character.  Oh, and who doesn’t have a grudge against the world with something to prove. Listen Hollywood... you can have a strong female character without making her a bitch. Just saying.

But let us pretend for a moment that I would have kept watching even if she had decided not to come back for Season 4 after having her daughter last July. The current season is 5 episodes in, so you need to head over to Hulu to catch up. My thoughts on a current season are mixed...

It still has the crazy solution to some impossible break in or theft or whatever, which is the whole reason I watch, despite all my talk about Tancredi. This season has dropped the one huge mission like seasons 1 and 3 and replaced it with a stack of individual ones, which I am guessing will culminate in a larger, insanely dangerous one by the end of the season. All is good there.

What isn’t as good is their contact at the CIA or whatever he is. Though I can’t decide why I can’t stand him. Part of it is just his character... part of it is that I don’t think he can act... and part of it is the obviousness of his role in the overall plot. He is just there to provide the current mission and is going to die later, severing their only contact with the government and making them wanted fugitives again. The only surprising thing is that he hasn’t died already. I was honestly expecting it by episode 4. Now I am thinking by the end of episode 7. Either way, yawn. They will have to do something completely unexpected with him to make me care at all.

I love the cold blooded bastard that is hunting our ‘heroes’ down. If such a thing as the ‘company’ could exist, it would require people like him. I am terrified that he is going to murder a major character this season, but that’s what makes him great. You know if he gets the chance, the guys are dead. None of this pansy James Bond villain (yes, Kris, I misspelled that the first time) crap where he holds a victim and explains the plot. Nope, some torture for information and a bullet in the head is more his style. That all said, I think he’s dead by the end of the season as well.

I think the new hacker guy is going to screw them all over in some retarded and predictable way. He is just too much of an opportunist and the main characters are just too mean to him for it not to happen. I’m looking for that in the last 3 episodes of the season somewhere.

On to the main people...

Sara is awesome. And hott.

T-Bag is brilliant. He’s the guy you shouldn’t be rooting for at all, but I do anyway. I love how he just makes up stuff as he goes and just rolls with whatever comes up like it is no big deal.

She is in no way important at all until episode 5, and may still not have any importance to the season other than someone else to die.... but Shannon Lucio is cute. My guess is that someone decided there wasn’t enough eye candy for the guys, so they hired her cleavage.

And she’s a brunette who seems to be intelligent if episode 5 is any indication, so I’m not complaining.

A-hem.

Right. So I love Prison Break so far this season, despite the minor quibbles above. I like the overall plot so far, I still enjoy the characters I enjoyed last season, the pacing is solid, and there is always this sense that something cataclysmic could happen and change the season’s direction at any moment. So I would not be terribly surprised if none of the stuff I predicted above actually happens. I still think it will, of course, but if not, I won’t feel like they jerked the rug out from under us, because the show is based on the idea that all your best laid plans can be screwed over at any moment.

I went looking for a decent clip of the show and can’t find one anywhere. Youtube has a billion Prison Break vids and not a good one in the lot. Oh well, just check out whole episodes on Hulu.

Oh, and I love what they are doing with Gretchen, as played by Jodi Lyn O’Keefe. We were made to hate her in season 3 for good reason, but now... now we aren’t quite sure anymore. I find myself on her side coming out of episode 5. We shall see.

Just so I don’t have anyone claiming I post too many pics of women on this blog (is that even possible?), I’m told this is one of the reasons some female friends of mine watch.

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