This all said: I've watched all of Prison Break, numerous times, and enjoyed every second of it, but even I had a hard time sitting through the first four episodes of this revival. The best way I can think of to describe Prison Break: The Final Break is that a lone DVD copy sat in the bargain bin at my local Rite Aid, untouched, for over a year. In "The Final Break," Michael breaks into a prison in order to break his wife out of the prison, but he dies in the process. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Collies) was decapitated and her head is put into a box-but in season four, she was alive (head and all!) with basically a shrug from the writers. (Honestly, no one really knew what season four was about.) It was eventually clear that there's no rhyme or reason to Prison Break: in season three, Dr. But once they broke out, it got a little weird.Īfter a season on the run, Michael ended up in a Panamanian prison-one ruled by inmates, not guards-but he broke out of that, too, only to spend another season collecting cards to break into a facility with ties to a conspiracy. The first season (particularly the first 13 episodes) made for fascinating television, with a compelling, edge-of-your-seat escape plot alongside a love story between Michael and his prison doctor as well as a surprisingly emotional relationship between the show's two brothers. It's hard to top the strangeness of where Prison Break ended up. Even when Prison Break first premiered on FOX back in 2005, it seemed like a baffling series-how do you sustain a story about a guy breaking out of prison? What happens when he does break out of prison? The answer, it seemed, was to just keep ramping up the wild insanity, which is the same strategy this limited series is employing and with even stranger results. While other television revivals make sense- Gilmore Girls, Full(er) House, The X-Files-the return of Prison Break seems like the punchline to a joke about peak TV.
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