Tears were shed, revenge was sworn … only for Sara to turn up, alive and with her head very much intact, one series later. Sara’s decapitated head was sent to Lincoln in a box, Seven-style. However, its real shark-jumping moment came early in season three with the death of Michael’s love interest, Sara Tancredi. Want to escape from jail? Just get a mate with a pilot’s licence and leave! Has nobody pointed out that the quickest way out of prison these days is to get a true-crime podcast made about you, not crawl through miles of sewers?

And so on, like a jail-based hokey cokey. As the series progressed, it got tangled in a confusing mess of conspiracies, secret service double agents and a mysterious, probably evil movement called The Company, who framed Lincoln for murder and seemed intent on ruining Michael’s life.įurthermore, it was a concept with a built-in problem: what happens to a show called Prison Break once they’ve broken out of the prison? It’s on to another prison, of course, which they have to break into … and then out of. But, rather than leave it at that, the show was intent on throwing as many complicated plotlines into the mix as it could. Ostensibly, the main story was that of architect Michael Scofield, who gets the plans to Fox River State Penitentiary tattooed on his body so he can break his brother Lincoln out from the inside. Prison Break was never a straightforward TV programme.

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