I didn’t start watching FOX’s Prison Break until recently. I caught the first two episodes of Season One about two weeks ago, and liked what I saw. I am a 24 fan, so the fast-paced action and suspense really appealed to me. But I didn’t make an effort to follow up with more episodes. Then a friend of mine loaned me the entire DVD box set, so I sat down to watch a couple more episodes. That turned into a Prison Break marathon in which I reeled off 12 episodes in a 24-hour span!

The plot of the show should be pretty evident from the title. It’s about a group of inmates that are trying to break out of the Fox River Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. I have passed by that Joliet pen plenty of times during my travels on I-55 (or is that 355 in that area?), but haven’t been back to that area in years. In fact, I didn’t even know that the place was shut down in 2002. At any rate, that’s the principal filming location for the series, which kind of makes me wish I was back home so I could go check it out once in a while.

The only thing I’m concerned about with this show is how long the writers will be able to drag this plotline out. I mean, the prisoners will either escape or they won’t, and I don’t think as a viewer I’ll have much patience for their plans getting thwarted at the last second every single time just to keep them in their cells for another episode. There better be some pretty good plot twists in the work or else this could get boring very quickly.

At any rate, I’ve read that there are already plans for a third season, so let’s see how the writers keep Prison Break going for that long.

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