Prison Break

Prison Break

Prison Break

Prison Break is an American drama that was aired on Fox TV for four seasons. It is based on Michael Scofield who is a big time structural engineer who has to commit a crime to gain entry to a local prison as his brother is incarcerated in the prison allegedly for a murder he never committed. Michael (Wentworth Miller) had access to the blueprints of the prison and has a really intelligent photographic memory so he then get the secret labyrinth of blueprints tattooed on his body hidden within a design so only he can see what it really means, this is his plan to break out his brother before his death row sentence as he can't stand to see his brother die. Immediately from the start it turns into an exciting race against time for Michael to rescue his brother from getting the chair.

Michael Scofield's Story

Secret Tattoo on Michael

Michael is a structural engineer, living a very highly lavish life. Once he learned about his brother who had always been a problem child he felt like he had to devise a plan to help save him. Using his resources he creates an elaborate plan and this is unearthed throughout the series and you realise how smart the plan actually is.

Lincoln Burrow's Story

Lincoln in Fox River

Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) is a typical problem child grown up thug, he gets accused of the murder of the vice presidents brother - Terence Steadman. He is wrongly convicted although his past never helped his plea as he claims he is innocent. You find out through the show that people from high above have something to do with his incarceration into Fox River Penitentiary.

The Show

Season 1 Cast

The show starts quickly with how Michael gets sent to prison and how he has shocked his brother with committing a crime of armed robbery in a bank to get sent to Fox River. He tries to see Lincoln as much as he can within the prison to start getting the plan in place, Michael carefully sourced out unique individuals to his plan that were in the prison already.




With the start of the program you get to find out the essential characters and what role they play in

Part of the Crew

Michaels plan, within the first season it is all based within Fox River and how they are going to break out of the prison. The show is like a much more action thrilled Shawshank Redemption, it keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting to watch the next episode. A lot of problems arise for the team and this causes chaos and quick thinking from the recruited members of the escape team.

FBI Agent "Mahone"

Season 2 you find the start of life on the outside of the prison, with tensions high between the inmates you find a lot of problems arising between the group and people start to go separate ways from each other. Throughout the season you find the police and the FBI hot on their trail and it creates a very exciting watch for the viewer.

With DB Coopers money and a lot of the group chasing it for their future life plans it causes turmoil between the inmates, turning them against each other so they can have all the money for themselves. It proves an exciting watch as it is a substantial sum of cash they unearth.

Meanwhile the people who imprisoned Lincoln are trying to kill him and Michael, these hitmen work
for "The Company", in turn it spirals round and they can't seem to kill the brothers. With the hitmen on the tail of the brothers and the FBI agent Mahone it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to maintain survival without being caught or being killed.

With Season 3 the brothers find themselves in Panama City and this is where more complications

The brothers in Panama

occur for them as they need access to someone's knowledge who is imprisoned in a prison n Panama called Sona.

Without giving too much away I would highly recommend watching Prison Break as it is one of the best TV series' I have ever watched, it isn't too long an episode and within each episode it is gripping enough to keep you entertained which is very difficult for a show to constantly maintain. What I think a major strong point of the show is the constant reoccurring cast which lives strong throughout each seasons which users can relate to as they by then will have favourite members of the cast and this entices them to watch more.

Prison Break Official Site

Prison Break Season 1 Trailer

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