Pretty tats! Pretty fucking useful! |
In brief the premise of the show is that Michael Scofield's (Wentworth Miller) brother Lincoln Burrows (a shaved bald Dominic Purcell) has been framed for the murder of the United State's Vice President's brother. Michael realizes he's wronged his brother for years and written him off for no good reason. He then, quite logically/insanely, has himself arrested for armed bank robbery and sent to the same prison. Michael does this 'cause he's ridiculously brilliant and psychologically flawed and has created an elaborate escape plan to get his brother off of death row and out of prison before it's too late.
Scary Linc is ...sexy... |
Michael is equally key, he's the POV character for the audience. An intelligent guy that once worked as an architect he has to negotiate the foreign waters of prison. He's further hampered by a psychological condition which prevents him from being a selfish cold-hearted bastard aka someone that can survive prison. A conceit that works nicely to add justification for some stupid shit Michael pulls to help out other prisoners at the potential cost of his brother's life.
There are various scaly and hideous inmates he has to do business with in order to effect his escape but one of the skeeviest is a prison guard Brad Bellick who causes no end of suffering for the brothers. Crises occur, alliances are made and broken, tragedy and a bit of comedy run rampant and so on.
The show is great, it's a lot of fun but come the end of the second season my brain checks out. About five minutes before the end of the last episode Michael pulls a move that makes me want to stab random strangers with plastic sporks. Everything following I wash my hands of, however, the first two seasons are great and loads of fun.
Availability:
Netflix - Yes, instant and disc, Seasons 1 - 4 are available as well as 'the final break' which is apparently two hours missing from the series finale, according to amazon reviews there were 'creative difficulties' around the finale. As noted above I stopped paying attention after the stupid shit they pulled for season 3 so I have no idea if the final break is worthwhile viewing.
Hulu - Yes, all four seasons no mention of the final break.
Amazon - Yes for both, clickable pics below
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