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Post by Eyphur on Nov 30, 2005 19:38:03 GMT -5
One thing I have wondered about this series is how will there ever be any other seasons? I read in TV guide that the story had been plotted out through 44 episodes so I guess we have that long until it becomes a problem. |
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Post by doobrah on Dec 1, 2005 9:25:07 GMT -5
What's with the electric chair? I thought all states now used lethal injection, but maybe that's not scary enough for TV. (Seems like it would be scary to poor Linc, since he'd be dead either way). In Virginia, the condemned now get to choose the method of execution. While 'ol Sparky is still available, it's only been chosen once (to dramatize the inhumanity of it) since lethal injection became available. |
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Post by inuvik on Dec 1, 2005 11:04:43 GMT -5
IWhat happened to Nick? Who did it? / |
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Post by hoosier on Dec 3, 2005 17:51:11 GMT -5
IWhat happened to Nick? Who did it? / Fisk shot Russo!!! Thanks for filling me in! |
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Post by carl1951 on Dec 22, 2005 20:58:46 GMT -5
I have never posted on this thread before. Never "saw" the show; have no interest to. I wondered why the fascination and popularity of the show.
In Florida, an alleged serial rapist, Rapaso (my name is my crime) escaped from the Miami Maximum security jail. The Chief of Police said the popularity of a television series may have given the "escape idea" to the escapee. Now this guy tied bed sheets and scaled-down the side of the building. He is still on the lam.
The Chief also said the writers of the program are not only very talented, but have given jail personnel insight to some things they never even thought of...hmmm
Now the truth is out:
With all the serial killers on the Board, must keep up with the escape-of-the-day, don't we. tch, tch, tch.
Later, Carl
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Post by inuvik on Feb 21, 2006 14:10:47 GMT -5
I have seen a bunch of promos saying this will be back on March 20. Hooray!
(Wish it was right now, Olympics is putting everything on other networks in reruns it seems and all my fave shows aren't on on CBC, the Canadian network covering them).
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Post by shmeep on Mar 20, 2006 9:49:48 GMT -5
I caught part of the marathon yesterday! Well, it was on in the background as I tiled my kitchen floor, but I was able to follow. I am so excited about the rest of the season starting tonight! I have to say, Prison Break and the 24 may be too much for me to handle in one sitting. What a great night of television!
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Post by shmeep on Mar 20, 2006 11:52:12 GMT -5
A little interview with Matt Olmstead over at TVGuide.com:
Prison Break: What Happens Next?
by Matt Webb Mitovich
Sixteen long, long weeks ago is when this TV season officially started getting weird. Prison Break, a critical and ratings smash for Fox, aired its "fall season finale" on Nov. 28, leaving not just fans but Michael, Sucre, T-Bag et al in an utterly criminal limbo as their painstakingly crafted escape plan hit a big shiny dead end. The good news? Prison Break is back with new episodes starting tonight at 8 pm/ET. Executive producer Matt Olmstead generously shared with TVGuide.com a sneak peek at what's to come in the first season's back nine episodes.
TVGuide.com: Is everyone there at Prison Break as glad as the rest of us to finally have new episodes on air?
Matt Olmstead: Absolutely. Obviously we've been working nonstop in production and writing, so as far as that, there hasn't been a break, but we're absolutely looking forward to our show coming back. We feel very strongly about the episodes that are forthcoming.
TVGuide.com: You also must be psyched to have no less than 24 as a lead-out. It promises to be quite a night of television.
Olmstead: It really fell into place. For a while there, we didn't know when we were going to come back, but the show's success and the strength came together to make Fox an offer they couldn't refuse, essentially.
TVGuide.com: When last we tuned in, Michael & Co. were literally stopped in their tracks by a shiny new steam-pipe fitting. Does Michael have a Plan B tattooed somewhere on his inner thigh?
Olmstead: Damn straight! He has a Plan B that is a much less-desired plan because it's incredibly risky. He hoped he would never have to resort to it, but circumstances dictate that he must.
TVGuide.com: And if Plan B fails? Plan C?
Olmstead: There is no Plan C. It's Plan B or 6 feet under.
TVGuide.com: Will Officer Bellick, Warden Pope or anyone else learn of the escape attempt any time soon?
Olmstead: Not anytime soon, but perhaps there is a traitor in our midst....
TVGuide.com: Are you talking about Tweener?
Olmstead: Oh, I don't know. It could rhyme with that, perhaps. [Laughs] We try to always keep our characters on our toes, so just when you think it's somebody, it turns out to be somebody else, whether it's with regard to this or something else. But at a certain point someone in authority gets wind of the escape, which accelerates the [Plan B] escape. Everything has to move up, which is another rug pulled from under these guys. If the first 13 episodes were about a methodical execution of a very intricately planned escape — albeit one met with some hiccups and setbacks — the back nine, concerning Plan B, is just madness. Everything gets thrown at them.
TVGuide.com: The promos that have been airing show Lincoln all strapped into the electric chair. How is it that we aren't about to smell fried hair?
Olmstead: [Laughs] We might. You never know!
TVGuide.com: Or...
Olmstead: Or... people on the outside, like Veronica and Nick, are doing their level best to try to get a stay [of execution] or at least buy some time.
TVGuide.com: The April 3 episode, "Brother's Keeper," features flashbacks to many characters' lives before prison. What sorts of things will we be learning?
Olmstead: Each flashback is basically about the tipping points for every character — not just for the cons — that either sent them to prison or were major turning points in their lives. I have to tell you, it's my favorite episode. It was written by Zack Estrin and directed by Greg Yaitanes, and it's unbelievable. The beauty of the episode, which fell to 15 [in the order], is that you have invested in these characters over the course of the first 14 episodes: When you do see them on the outside years prior and when you see what happened to them back then, it's explosive.
TVGuide.com: If you had to single out one flashback as being the most shocking...?
Olmstead: The story of Sara, the doctor, is unexpected. There's nothing that we've indicated prior to this that would lead anyone to believe what she went through. Also, T-Bag's story line is very unexpected.
TVGuide.com: How many more episodes until we learn of Abruzzi's fate? I mean, dude was gushing mad amounts of blood after T-Bag cut him.
Olmstead: Rumors have been flying around, but we give a pretty definitive answer of what happened to him fairly shortly.
TVGuide.com: Vice President Caroline Reynolds' [played by Patricia Wettig] master plan seems a bit extreme. I know people can be ambitious, but is there some added wrinkle to the conspiracy that we haven't seen yet?
Olmstead: She's half of a puppet to this company, these people that are pulling her strings, half of the master of her own destiny. At a certain point she gets on the ropes, and she has to either make a power move or "get thrown under the bus." That's where her big decision comes. What she needs to do to survive requires some real nefarious stuff.
TVGuide.com: It sounds like Patricia Wettig landing a fall pilot might not necessarily be a wrench in the works for you.
Olmstead: As far as actors doing pilots and stuff, we just have to work around it. But there's a lot ahead for her.
TVGuide.com: Assuming the boys break out, how might you continue what's been started between Michael and Sara? Once he's out, it's not like he can swing by to ask her to Starbucks.
Olmstead: Absolutely not. But by the same token, it will be an extension of their relationship right now, which is "frustrated." These are two people who would be in the sack by now if they were working together at a law firm. But because of the limitations and constraints of where and who they are... they have to try a little harder, and that makes the times that they are together that much richer. If Michael does get out, their contact and connection would essentially continue the same dynamic it had in prison.
TVGuide.com: Again, assuming they break out, will the guys each go their separate way, or will the situation be such that they need to stick together?
Olmstead: If they do [break out], it can't be like Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run with seven guys in a chain gang running down the road. But remember, dangling out there is Westmoreland/D.B. Cooper's money, and if that does exist, it certainly would be enticing to everybody who wants a piece of that pie. There are things like that they would want and need to work on collectively, as well as the things we've established that they want and would pursue individually. So as opposed to this seven-headed monster running around, it would be about their lives connecting and disconnecting.
TVGuide.com: Is there a pivotal character whom we have yet to meet?
Olmstead: No, I think that we just dig a lot deeper into our existing characters and throw even more intense conflicts and setbacks at them to see how they react. We consider ourselves quite fortunate to have the actors that we do. Believe me, it is very easy to write for these guys.
TVGuide.com: No Season 2 pickup yet, right?
Olmstead: No, but certainly we like our chances. Fox is waiting until we repremiere to see how we do.
TVGuide.com: How much of Season 2 do you have mapped out already?
Olmstead: We're done writing Season 1 and will be done with production by the time people read this, and we're now in the room working on sketching out Season 2. We have basically our "tent poles" mapped out, and now we're getting into the specifics.
TVGuide.com: Before we go, how about one last tease?
Olmstead: I would just go back to Sara. She has a real dark secret in her past that comes to light and definitely informs her character, informs her relationship with her dad and with the governor, and plays out heavily in the back nine of this season.
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Post by inuvik on Mar 20, 2006 16:08:41 GMT -5
Shmeep--what an appetite whetter!!!!
Where I live they changed the time of this show. It used to be on at 8, now it's at 9--the same time as Monk. It's hard for me to believe, not having cable, only having 5 channels and not watching very many shows, that I still run into conflicts.
Monk, you lose! You get recorded.
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Post by shmeep on Mar 21, 2006 12:14:01 GMT -5
Oh, that was fun and worth the wait! And it even made me cry a little. This show is so suspenseful and emotional and yet so very fun. Every moment with T-Bag on the screen is brilliant and Sucre has become a strong character as well. I loved the rats--the literal and the figurative ones--and how they played into the story. How the execution was almost halted but how that plan was thwarted by Tweener's love of fast food as well as his aversion to the thought of being placed with an unsavory cellmate.
Veronica didn't annoy me, Nick was gorgeous and powerful (but when did he have time to get that flattering new haircut?), LJ broke my heart, and Sara really came through for Michael. Didn't do any good, but she tried and that has to mean something to Michael. How long before she becomes an integral part of the plot? Before she either figures the whole thing out or Michael lets her in? Now that she's done her homework on Michael and has also read Lincoln's file, she must be able to put together that he really is innocent and that Michael is there to save his brother. She's a smart woman, which is why she's such a wonderful character.
That good-bye! That was what undid me. Michael, so strong and steely throughout the series, couldn't be crying! And yet he was and that was almost too much for me.
I know it's unrealistic that the governor would call just to say that he wasn't going to grant clemency, but I'm glad the writers did that because that eliminates the best hope Lincoln had left. We know, going into that execution, that there won't be a last-minute call from the governor. That means that either he'll die, Sucre will go into the walls and figure out a different way to short out the electricity, or Michael had one last-ditch plan to which we are not yet privy. After all, we didn't get to see all their time together so it's possible he was able to slip something to Lincoln that he could do to the chair itself that will make it malfunction. I know. I'm desperate to think of ways they might be able to save Lincoln. Man, this show makes me tense! I didn't realize how much I've been missing it until it came back on last night!
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Post by inuvik on Mar 21, 2006 14:25:09 GMT -5
A bunch of us were talking about it at work this morning. Really good! I'd forgotten how tense this show is. It's really hard to go to bed after it, it's sure not relaxing--I'm all worked up!
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Post by maggiethecat on Mar 21, 2006 14:34:15 GMT -5
I had forgotten how much this show can pack into one hour, and I was limp by the end last night. The emotional aspects were just stunning, and I too was getting a little verklempt, especially during the phone call between Lincoln and LJ.
I can only hope that Michael knew they were going to test the connections, and he's got a second electrical snafu all worked out . . . 'cause it ain't lookin' good.
Addiction TV is back!
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Post by shmeep on Mar 22, 2006 12:38:48 GMT -5
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Post by shmeep on Mar 28, 2006 9:06:53 GMT -5
Things are getting even stranger! Lincoln's father was there? Ensign Ro Laren is in leage with the evil Vice President? That really was the VP's brother in that grave? (Come on, who really believes that? I'm sure that examiner is in her payroll as well. Did she really show up just to scold Nick and Veronica? What was she doing there?)
And poor poor Tatoo! I didn't realize it until yesterday, but Tatoo was one of my favorite characters and knowing part of it--a rather important part!--has been burned off of Michael's body was distressing. And gross. Poor laundry guy! Do we even want to know about the big donkey secret Sucre used as leverage? I know I don't.
Next week looks really good! It will be a flashback to the time before everyone was in jail and it will give all the backstories.
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Post by doobrah on Mar 30, 2006 9:03:31 GMT -5
From today's NY Post:
March 30, 2006 -- The hit drama "Prison Break" is coming back next season - probably with a new name.
By announcing a new season, the show's producers may have spoiled the season finale, revealing that the impending escape the series has been building to for months now will be a success.
"Season 1 was the prison break, and Season 2 will be the manhunt," series creator/executive producer Paul Scheuring told the Hollywood Reporter from New Mexico, where he is scouting locations for the show's second season.
"It will be 'The Fugitive' times eight. We're going to be scattering our escapees to the four corners of the country, using various modes of transportation: planes, trains and automobiles. Basically, it's going to be the second half of 'The Great Escape.' "
Next fall's edition could be called something like "Prison Break: Manhunt," officials said.
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