#Prison break season 3 dvd series#
After a thrilling first season, I’ve gradually fallen out of love with the series as it’s transformed into exactly what I feared it would be - a show based on a gimmick that had already run its course. One forehead-slapping alteration (you’ll know it when you see it) involves the relationship between Michael and Lincoln and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.Īs it stands, ‘Prison Break’ has a lot of work to do to ensure I’ll stick with it for a fourth season. Last and certainly least, several characters make bizarre decisions that frankly don’t make any sense considering their history and personalities. Such knowledge was plausible in the first season since he was intimately familiar with that prison’s grounds and buildings, but the third season offers very few explanations to justify his expertise in an obscure, foreign prison. I also couldn’t get past the fact that Michael magically knows everything he needs to know about the Panamanian prison. Worse still, the third season’s main villain is an eye-rolling cliché straight out of a ‘Bond’ film or a ‘Charlie’s Angels’ flick, the inner-workings of the Panamanian prison robs each episode of any serious drama, and the series’ writers continue to make every female cast member feel completely expendable.
The series’ creators were obviously trying to return to the first season’s roots after mixed reactions to their second outing, but Michael’s newest prison is plagued by laughably improbable circumstances, the latest escape plan disappointingly requires less brains and more brawn, and the central kidnapping storyline feels like it belongs in a show like ’24’ rather than ‘Prison Break.’ More distressingly, the characters have become flat, predictable caricatures of the engaging heroes and villains that littered the first season. Sadly, ‘Season 3’ did little more than offer a contrived excuse to toss yet another daring prison break into the mix. However, when ‘Season 2’ took quite a few ill-advised left turns into uninspired mediocrity, I became more skeptical. What I thought would be an episodic gimmick had a great hook and kept me coming back week after week. I have to admit, I was really surprised that I enjoyed ‘Prison Break’s first season. As Michael and Lincoln rush to meet the Company’s deadline and secretly gain the upper hand, their loyalty is tested and their loved ones are placed in immediate danger. As his brother struggles with the plan, Lincoln must contend with the deadly Gretchen Morgan (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe), an unbalanced Company operative with a penchant for decapitation who holds the proverbial gun to their heads. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), and wants Scofield to break a fellow inmate named James Whistler (Chris Vance) out of prison. After a compelling opening volley that followed brothers Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) in a daring escape from prison, the series shrugged off its title and devolved into an unwieldy extended chase sequence that abandoned the first season’s intellect, intensity, and intrigue.Ĭut from twenty-two episodes to a mere thirteen as a result of 2007’s infamous WGA Strike, a truncated ‘Season 3’ finds Michael locked away in a Panamanian prison and Lincoln reluctantly helping an at-times faceless antagonist known as “The Company.” It seems the organization has kidnapped Lincoln’s son, LJ (Marshall Allman), and the recent love of Michael’s life, Dr. Instead, ' Season 1' fans who didn’t catch the second season on television will have to live with a rather jarring and disjointed jump to ‘Season 3.’ Not that it matters much. In fact, Fox currently hasn’t announced any plans to make it happen. If you’re digging through our site in an effort to find a review for the high-def release of ‘Prison Break: Season 2,’ you can save yourself a trip to Google - it was never released on Blu-ray.
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