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Liveblogging episode four of the season, “Safe and Sound.”
21:03: My cousin and her friend are talking loudly from the other room so thankfully I can’t hear Mahone and his wife being emo drama llamas.
21:06: This does beg the question was T-Bag does with his days in the office.
21:10: You hired Michael, annoying FBI man, can’t you just trust him?
21:11: You know something is overplayed when Mahone says, “That’s the man who killed my son,” and your first reaction is “GOD enough about your son.” Really, to make a dead son unsympathetic? Serious effort.
21:18: Again sir: You hired Michael Scofield for this job. It’s time to get on the Michael Scofield Bus and trust the man.
21:19: Really, gentlemen, an insurance payout is your ploy? Dressed like that? Yet the inappropriately dressed secretary doesn’t seem to fall for it. Go fig.
21:27: T-Bag, this leprechaun metaphor is really not making you as scary as you want to be.
21:30: Damn you and your mysterious nosebleed, Michael, you just ruined that woman’s shirt.
21:31: Dear Token Asian, saying a murderer can’t help being a murderer is not something to tell a grieving father. Just FYI.
21:37: “It was a big deal when you were thirteen.” Ooo, mystery surrounding Michael’s nosebleeds. My cousin’s friend says childhood nosebleeds are a sign of leukemia. I, however, vote for mysterious brain disease. That’s how all the brilliant TV minds go.
21:54: I liked their “The ocean IS your backyard!” conversation much more than this sort of cold and angsty talk about trust. Really, where is the chemistry from season one?
21:57: …really, Prison Break? Did you just use the fakest, most overused scream sound effect ever? You have jumped the shark.
Again, an ok but ultimately lackluster episode. As Mahone’s quest for his son’s killer got tired the second it started, I’d recommend a little more Michael/Sarah interaction. But now that there’s no prisoner/prison doctor forbidden love there it seems like the writers don’t know what to do, other than give them a sibling level of affection and casual acquaintance level dialogue. I may quit watching, but I suffered through season 3 to get to this point, it’s hard for me to give up now.
21:02: I’m not sure what weird little voice that was, Michael, but it was pretty cute.
21:04: T-Bag, also hving an adorable moment? Very strange.
21:06: I love me some Prison Break themesong.
21:09: Run, T-Bag, run!
21:12: Keep running, T-Bag, keep running!
21:!7: If the Company might know where they are, wouldn’t it be best to… move? They’re in an abandoned warehouse with some laptops and a whiteboard, it’s not that hard.
21:27: I think I have pinpointed my problem with the evolution of the Michael/Sarah relationship. I liked it better when Sarah was Michael’s anchor, not the other way around.
21:30: Wentworth Miller in a police uniform? Even with that silly hat, hoooot.
21:35: No, Sarah, no, answer your phone! And/or don’t let skeevy people steal your things!
21:49: There you go again with your nosebleeds, Michael.
21:53: I really want Token Asian to be funnier. Either legitimately so, or so bad he’s funny. But much like the curly haired agent he’s just occupying this boring middle ground in the land of uncompelling.
21:56: Poor Mr. Xing, it’s not his fault! Also, Token Asian is hiding something? But what?
21:59: And since they had a sweet, romantic talk, something bad is going to happen. Cue – assassin stalker!
Meh. Prison Break continues to be sort of lackluster. It just doesn’t have the cleverness and interpersonal drama of season 1. Yet I want to see what happens to Michael and Sarah, so I’ll hang in there.
21:01: This scene makes it clear that Wentworth Miller > whatever the hell that guy’s name is. He can’t act for shit. However, he was, perhaps, chosen because he is not as pretty and therefore will not distract from Went.
Good sir, if you ever read this, which you will not, I’m sure you are a kind and wonderful man.
21:04: Mahone, please stop asking your lady friend to stick her neck out for you.
21:06: They are pretty smart for not changing up the intro format too much. Same song, but the color-saturated images (and what color it’s saturated in!) are appropriate to the season. Very nice.
21:07: Ok, that was just weird.
21:09: It’s really hard to blog this show, because damn, you have to listen to everything. Especially because Token Asian talks fast.
21:12: T-BAG!
21:15: “This is a strange time to be in Disneyland.” “I’m getting you the card.” “From where, Tomorrow Land?” Oh, stop with the puns sir. I feel bad for you now, it’s not your fault your dialogue is badly written.
21:17: Did he just say “Hey, lady.” ? And come on, he is going to track him down and he is going to do something to get himself hurt! As if there was any question.
Oh, he probably said “Hey, Lang.”
21:19: OH FUCK. Damn those failsafe devices. Don’t they consider the possibility of people being IN the server room when the fire alarm goes off? Surely there’s a safety switch somewhere. Also, I see certain vacuum-related problems happening with sucking out all the oxygen + apparently glass windows.
Commercial: I’m sort of sick of these political ads on both sides. Why can’t the American people just do their damn research? Also, I really wish the Republicans I know who are not consciously opposed to abortion would just admit they don’t care about other people, instead of arguing “No one in Mississippi wants an abortion.” But that’s another matter.
21:24: Linc is, of course, going to bust in there He-Man style. As if there was any doubt. But seriously guys. Safety switch. Do you have any idea the kind of lawsuits if there wasn’t one?
21:26: I hate to break it to you man, but “I don’t know” may be the truth. Then again I guess you’ve got syringes to waste.
21:27: AHA. That’s how he got money. I totally forgot T-Bag stole Whistler’s shit. I do enjoy how he’s spending it. Singing in the shower, ordering pizza, watching porn.
21:29: Did you need to ask, Michael? Did you really? And come on Token Asian, you should know better than to think it’s that easy to decode these things. You’re the computer genius after all. Seriously, did they have to make him so pathetic?
21:30: Thank you Sucre for spelling out why you’re hanging around, since Belick obviously forgot.
21:31: Oh yes, Sarah is in this episode, and Michael cares about her! In case we forgot.
Commercial: The Family that Preys? Really? Because when Masters of Horror did that pun it wasn’t good either. And generally doing anything that Masters of Horror did is a bad plan.
21:46: The couple that stays together flees the authorities together! Only not – Sarah gives herself up? I guess she wouldn’t really go to jail.
21:47: Oh shit! You show him Linc, kick that cellphone!
21:48: Since we cut to commercial I can only imagine someone surprising is in that car. Or if it was someone we knew, would it have been revealed pre-commercial for us to GASP about? Oh the delicate intricacies of TV.
Commercial: Hey, it’s Diane Lane in Nights in Rodanthe! I saw that house, and met her. Only by met her I mean transferred her call to my at-the-time boss.
21:52: Dear incompetent agent man, I think I will start calling you the Red-Headed Stepchild.
21:53: Michael, Sarah, can you have your romantic moment this episode please? The two of you have been really chilly and frankly it’s disappointing.
21:54: God, Token Asian just keeps getting smacked around. Can he please turn out to be hugely awesome and save the day? Or is he not allowed because he’s not white? Then again, the rest of the supporting white cast is frequently incompetent, Linc included. So it’s probably less a Hollywood racial thing and more a ‘Michael needs to look competent’ thing.
21:57: I think that’s one ’shot off-screen’ where we can assume he’s really dead.
So-so episode. Prison Break continues to focus a little too much on their intricate plot and not enough on the personal lives of their extensive cast. I don’t really want it to turn into a soap opera, but I feel as if the first season had a better balance of plot vs character drama. I would, perhaps, just like to see Sarah and Michael show one ounce of the love they apparently have, rather than have Sarah be this bizarre Madonna (notice the odd height-difference hand-kissing Michael-head-hugging at the end of this episode – vaguely religious undertones, idk) to the series’s many whores. Surely Prison Break can show a loving, supportive relationship when two people are together, as much as they use it as a character’s impetus while they’re apart.
And yes, I spelled names wrong left and right. I didn’t really care.
