Prison Break - Season 1 [Blu-ray] Overview
Fox's Breakout Hit of the 2005-2006 Season!
Most men would do anything to get out of Fox River Penitentiary, but Michael Scofield will do anything to get in. His brother Lincoln has been sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit, and the only way to save him is from the inside out. Armed with prison blueprints and an impossibly intricate escape plan, Michael gets himself incarcerated, and the race against time is on. Now, he'll need all of the cunning, daring, and luck he can musterÂ...along with the assistance of some of the prison's most vile and dangerous felons.
Prison Break - Season 1 [Blu-ray] Specifications
Season one of Prison Break is great television. Here's the set-up. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is framed and wrongfully convicted for assassinating the Vice President's brother. Lincoln's brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who just happens to have designed Illinois' Fox River Penitentiary where Lincoln is on death row, hatches an elaborate escape plan. Michael's plan involves getting himself incarcerated in Fox River and smuggling the prison's blueprints by having them hidden in tattoos that cover his entire torso. Once inside, Michael must form alliances with a rogue's gallery of felons with their own sometimes unsavory motives. Meanwhile, on the outside, Lincoln's lawyer and one-time girlfriend Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney), pursued by Secret Service agents, attempts to unravel the conspiracy that sent her man to the slammer.
Prison Break is anchored by tight, suspenseful writing clearly relished by the largely little-known cast. Standouts include Robert Knepper as the murderer/pedophile T-Bag, who somehow makes such a despicable character likeable. Stacey Keach of Mike Hammer fame plays the warden-with-a-heart-of-gold, who clashes with Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) over whether to rehabilitate the inmates or makes their lives more miserable. Peter Stormare, famous for his skills with a wood chipper in Fargo, turns in a deliciously menacing performance as mob boss John Abruzzi, while Amaury Nolasco's winsome Fernando Sucre shares a cell and secrets with Miller's Scofield. Watching the show one gets a sense that this is the opening salvo of Wentworth Miller's career, which will doubtless include roles as assassins, detectives, super heroes, and perhaps the champion of staring contests. Midway through the season it's explained that Scofield is a genius with an heightened sensitivity to other peoples' suffering, which sums up what makes the show so great--the mind-bendingly intricate plot is a framework for moments when people make others suffer and cope with the burden of their own suffering.
The six-disc set includes 22 addictive episodes, audio commentary on selected episodes, three featurettes, and alternate and deleted scenes. As with most TV shows on DVD, the "previously on Prison Break" intros can get tiresome, but that's what the fast forward button is for. --Ryan Boudinot
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Customer Reviews
Show as Prison Break, Heroes, Lost, the old X-Files are, in large measure, to consider how many of us perceive the world around us in these uncertain times and difficult:
- Controlled most of our lives affected or even high-ranking individuals or organizations that now have the opportunity to realize their programs
- Things are seldom what they seem, because the hidden forces are at work
- Only a few insiders understand fully andControl and set the agenda for all the control bodies
- We consider ourselves lucky if we can find out who it is and how it is changing our world, but we can never know why
- Force This hidden and mysterious, the plan as "action, and act globally
The "Season 1" Michael Scowfield is so guilty that he be put in prison so that he fled his brother, help (wrongly) on death row, too. Sounds too complicated? Itnot because it is. While working on the run, Michael, a control freak and a genius, interacts with a dozen prisoners from the middle characters level mafia types, the wrongfully convicted, the unfortunate, the mentally ill, really sadistic, vicious murderess. And there is the outside world. He has friends who help him and his brother has some very powerful enemies - how does it look like the President of the United States, when one thinks of the enemy? Well ... is by far the most powerful, becauseThere is this mysterious "company" I do not know exactly what you are trying to an agenda that we are not aware of implementation will be monitored (see paragraphs before this review) for further clarification.
This is a great series, really, my favorite in general and the Blu-ray version takes advantage of higher screen resolution. I do not think that there is Gee Whiz, Blu-ray special services on this package, but I do not know much anyway for further treatment. I'm just glad to actually seeshow in high definition.
We have seasons 1, 2-3 already, and we look forward to the forthcoming season 4 release - sorry, there is too much excitement for me to see this on television, one hours a week at a time.
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