Escape to Obsessed With Film, where I've reviewed the premiere of A&E's new crime drama BREAKOUT KINGS. Prisons! Criminals! Cops!
Originally a pilot script that was refused further development by Fox, Breakout Kings managed to find a home with the A&E network. Created by Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead, two prolific writers on Prison Break, Breakout Kings cleaves close to the fourth season premise of that defunct show. By-the-book CPA Agent Charlie Duchamp (Laz Alonso) and hotheaded detective Ray Zancanelli (The Wire's Domenick Lombardozzi) resurrect an idea to recapture escaped convicts by assembling a team of criminals with breakout experience themselves. As the marketing paraphrases, "it takes a con to catch a con"... Continue reading...
