Prison Break

[panther]

The new show on Fox which will be airing a pilot on August 29th

Synopsis

Michael Scofield is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother, Lincoln Burrows, is on death row and scheduled to die in a few months for a murder Michael is convinced Lincoln did not commit. With no other options and time winding down, Michael holds up a bank to get himself incarcerated alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary. Once he's inside, we learn that Michael -- a structural engineer with the blueprints for the prison -- has hatched an elaborate plan to break Lincoln out and prove his innocence. Senior correctional officer Bellick offers some prison wisdom as Michael arrives. Then, with the help of his cellmate Sucre, Michael begins to align himself with a disparate group of prisoners -- including former mob boss John Abruzzi, and Charles Westmoreland, a man some believe to be the infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper. On the outside Michael has only one ally, his defense attorney and longtime friend, Veronica Donovan -- who is Lincoln's former girlfriend. Meanwhile, Lincoln's 15-year-old son, LJ, is now adrift without his Uncle Michael's positive influence

STARS:
Wentworth Miller as Michael
Dominic Purcell as Lincoln
Robin Tunney as Veronica
Sarah Callies as Dr. Tancredi
Peter Stormare as Abruzzi
Amaury Nolasco as Sucre
Wade Williams as Bellick
Marshall Allman as LJ

2 hour Season premiere
August 29
9pm

Prison Break

Have you seen the pilot - leaked on net?

What expectations do you have for the show?

Share your thoughts here

[Deleted]

I have not seen the entire pilot but DirecTV is doing this little free fall tv preview of what's on Fox and they showed the first four minutes of this show. I didn't have an opinion of it at all until I watched the first four minutes. Now I kind of want to see it.

I love Wentworth Miller. I think he was awesome in Popular and I loved him on Joan of Arcadia. I'd watch a whole show with him. There's something rather evil and cute about him. However, I wonder how they can do this all season. Eventually they're bound to break out, right?

[panther]

Once they break out then the next storyline would be about them trying to solve the conspiracy that got lincoln locked up in the first place.

Was anyone here an extra on the set?

If so do you have any insiders stories to tell about goings on on the set?

Thanks!

[Benni]

I watched this last night and enjoyed it. I am always leery of investing my time in shows like this in fear of them getting canceled.

I thought the casting was really good. The two brothers and nephew looked very much alike. I liked Stacy Keach as the Warden. I was a little surprised at the tattoo on his whole body. Kinda Weird and very different premise for a show.

I cannot think about the toe thing. Just ewwww.

I don't understand some of the prison lingo. I figured out shoe must mean solitary confinement. Fish - does that mean like fresh meat?

[raqs]

Benni, that's what I think Fish means. And I agree with you about being afraid to really enjoy a show for fear that it will last one season.

Thoughts on the show - it nearly lost me the first epi; the second was much better. By then you didnt have that feeling that they were trying to explain the story to the audience. The tattoo is freaky-cool but someone has got to show me where the blueprint code/cipher is because..... hell it all looks like tattoo to me!

But.... Wentworth is truely awesomely sexy *sigh* I think I'll tune in again next week, just to check out that tattoo again.

ps: I think it would definitely be a better show if they lost the two love interests (because you KNOW Scofield and the doctor are going to hook up). How predictable.

[topher]

I missed it last night; too nice of an evening to stay indoors. Are they going to repeat it?

[InchoateDetails]

Topher they'll repeat it Thursday 9/1/05 at 8 pm. I'll see it again because I am in love with Wentworth. Please nobody tell me he's an ass in real life!!

[polygal]

I missed the middle chunk of the first hour, but I still thought the show was good. LOVED Stacy Keach as the Warden, but I think he's awesome at everything.

The toe thing totally weirded me out.

I like it, but I'm not getting too invested, because it is FOX.

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benni said:

I don't understand some of the prison lingo. I figured out shoe must mean solitary confinement. Fish - does that mean like fresh meat?

As someone who is a smidge too enamoured of "OZ" (what can I say? I'm a big fan of male frontal nudity, all too rare in Hollywood.), SHU is Secure/Solitary/insert your choice of S-word here Housing Unit, the spiffy new term for solitary confinement. "Fish" is the writers' word for new and seemingly-vulnerable prisoners, similar to Oz's "prag." I doubt you'd hear it in a real prison - made-up words date less (because no one used them before and no one used them after.)

It seems that the early ratings are good, but I'm still trying to avoid attachment, having been burned by Fox on numerous occasions (there are days I'd swear X-Files survived only because nobody carried it where I was living at the time!)

[kostgard]

I know they used the term "fresh fish" for new arrivals in The Shawshank Redemption, so maybe it is a term that has just fallen out of favor (with the "Oz" lingo being the newer stuff) or maybe it is regional.

I liked it - and it did really pick up in the second hour. They threw a ton of information at us in the first, then the action picked up in the second. I like how Scofield went from Mr. Smug Smirkington in the first hour to "Oh, crap" in the second hour when things just didn't fall into place like he thought they would and people kept upsetting his plans.

Some things were hard to buy - a lot of the dialogue was a bit ham-fisted, and there is no way in hell a young, attractive woman like that would be a doctor in a male prison. And if that actually happened - there is NO WAY she would be alone with an inmate in the exam room.

But overall, good hook with watching Scofield's master plan unfold, and I like the characters (especially his comic relief cellmate). My only concern is how long can they drag this concept out? He's got 60 days to get his brother out before he goes to the chair, right? They could spend one season on that, but then what? Will he have another master plan for when they're on the lam?