PRISON BREAK - The FlashbacksGreat new Prison Break last night on Channel Five showing how each character wound up at Fox River State Penitentiary. Very interesting viewing if you've been glued to the best guilty pleasure on TV at the moment. For while Lost, 24 and Battlestar Galactica are undoubted masterpieces currently airing on TV, there's just something undeniably fun about the "under the radar" Prison Break.
Maybe it's because there's always been something great about enjoying a TV show nobody else seems to watch. Remember The X-Files back in '93-'94? Before the days of Gillian Anderson naked in FHM? That was when only the "special few" knew how great the show was. Prison Break is along similar lines.
But it's probably more to do with the fact you can't quite figure out how the writers are going to keep the episodes coming! Particularly after the failed escape plan a few weeks back, surely a prime "jump the shark" moment for a show like this. Still, rumours have it that season 2 will focus on a fugitive aspect with the escapees outside the prison walls (so it's goodbye to all the characters who work at Fox River?), while season 3 will involve them all having to break back in for some reason!
I'm sure even moneygrabbing Fox won't be able to pull a fourth season out of the concept...