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Description: Genre: Television - Prison Break / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Actors: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell ... / DVD ... more
Prison Break - The Complete Season 1 (DVD) ... released 18 September, 2006 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL, Subtitled / 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

Newest Review: ... his brother Lincoln 'Link the sink' Burrows by shooting up a bank in a fake robbery. As the story pans out, you discover ... more

 ... that Lincoln has been framed for the murder of the U.S. Vice-President's brother Terrance Steadman. Michael is an absolute genius and has been planning on breaking his innocent brother out of Fox River Penitentiary for months. He has profiled several of the other inmates, thereby covering more bases to make deals and cut them in on the escape. He has obtained and tattooed his entire torso with the blueprints of the prison. He even has a contact on the outside helping him and has information about prison staff of whic...more

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emmbop82
Premium Review Prison Break - The Complete Season 1 (DVD): Cancel everything - you will be hooked! (561 words)
by - written on 15/04/08 (Useful, 35 readings)
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Prison Break is broadcast by Fox. The show is in its third season. The seasons usually consist of 24 one hour long episodes. The third season has unfortunately been cut short due to the writer's srike and consists of only 13 episodes. This review is based on the first series, partly because I'm not up to date on the second and third series, and partly because I don't want to spoil for anyone who hasn't started watching yet. This drama does something that not many other programmes do, keeps you watching on the edge of your seat. It is addictive. I'm sure I could feel my blood pressure rising as I became so hooked I devoured the whole first series in ...  Read the complete review

murray2008
Premium Review Prison Break - the best TV show on TV (246 words)
by - written on 08/04/08 (Useful, 33 readings)
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This has got to be the best show on TV . I didn't watch it when it was on channel 5 as I missed the first few episodes, so I rented it on DVD and I've got to say thats the best way to watch a tv show. You have a straight 45 minutes of Michael Scofield and co with no ad breaks, pure tv heaven. So what I like about this tv show is the genuis plot. The brother of a man who is sent to prison, commits a crime bad enough on purpose to be sent to prison with him, confident that he'll be able to break both of them out, as he is a structual engineer and knows just how the prison was built. A bit far fetched you may think, but honestly I couldn't recommend ...  Read the complete review

craignow
Premium Review Prison Break - The Complete Season 1 (DVD): great series must watch (195 words)
by - written on 12/04/08 (Somewhat useful, 26 readings)
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wentorth miller and domonic purcell play link and Micheal Schofield, this series is all about two brothers and when link gets wrongly accused and sent to prison micheal goes and tries to break him out! micheal schofield is a architect and he designed the prison that link had been sent to and tries to break him out.this series is completely great however it is15+ so it is not suitable for kids.i love this series and since i first seen it i have been watching it every episode.the prison micheal is sent to is called panama, when micheal gets himself sent to prison to save link he meets a woman called sarah who he falls in love with.now not only does micheal have break ...  Read the complete review

funagogo
Crowned Review If I go to prison I want it to be this one! (1274 words)
by - written on 12/01/08 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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Release Year in UK: 2006 Certification: 15 Running Time: 990 minutes! (Approx) DVD Extras: Audio commentaries from the writers, director and cast Alternative/deleted scenes 'Making A Scene' featurette 'Making Prison Break' featurette 'If These Walls Could Speak: Profile Of The Joliet Correctional Center' featurette 'Beyond The Walls' featurette TV spots Plot: Lincoln Burrows has been falsely accused of killing Terence Steadman - the brother of America's vice president. He is sentenced to death and sent to Fox River Prison to see out his days. Convinced of his brother ...  Read the complete review

pmcds
Premium Review Prison Break - The Complete Season 1 (DVD): Oh, for a get out of jail free card! (777 words)
by - written on 15/03/09 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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The US has a plethora of different TV shows that get through the cutting process each year, and I can only inagine the number that don't. In amongst all of these shows, there are few that stand out, but Prison Break is one of them. In theory, it shouldn't work, and the possibilities should be severely limited as to what they can do with the show, but it is now well into its fourth season, and is one of the top rated thrillers still. There have been a number of developments since it first aired 4 years ago, with season 1 proving a big hit. Little was explained about the show to start with, leaving it very much up to the potential viewers' imagination, and I'll ...  Read the complete review

 
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