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Prison Break - Season 1 - Complete [2005]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Robin Tunney, Stacy Keach, Wade Williams

Features:

• Box set
• PAL
• Subtitled

Editorial Review:

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Best TV I Have EVER Seen
  Its not often I bother to write reviews but I have enjoyed Prison Break so much I just have to write to say its the best tv I have ever seen. I was gripped from start to finish, sat on the edge of my seat and glued to the screen. Brilliant casting, superb acting and amazing writers. The plot twists and turns - its full of adventure along with cliff hangers in each and every episode. Its been worth every penny...I am completely hooked and now a huge fan.
  

• Buy It!!
  Massive fan of 24, and less so of Lost, I was reluctantly persuaded to buy this as something to watch while waiting for 24 season 7 to arrive. The first episode had me so hooked (not just for the wonderful eye candy of the 2 brothers!) for the script, but also wondering how a whole series could be dedicated to breaking out of prison (like all the other reviewers say). However, the show was so addictive, I found myself abandoning the kids, the household chores and everything else to watch the whole lot in... more info

• THE BENCH MARK HAS BEEN RAISED!!!!
  I am a massive fan of 24 and I mean massive I am waiting for season 7 to hit our shores so I wanted something to watch until this happens. I decided to give Prison Break ago because I saw it cheap in my local DVD shop. Well I am lost for words how good this is it is totally brillant and the story and acting has in my eyes raised the bench mark big time. I never ever thought I would say this but this is better than 24 by a mile you really have to sit back and admire how clever this is the story grips you and... more info

• Top-notch pacing and tight story telling
  Prison Break series 1 is a strange pastiche of dramatic layers; some work so well they positively shine, and others feel rusty and under developed.
  First, the positive. The plotting here is first rate. Unlike other comparable series, such as 24 Season 6, the plot has a clear and causistic direction from day one: Michael Scofield's (Wentworth Miller) brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) is on death row for the murder of the Vice President's brother. Lincoln claims he was framed, and while his lawyers work... more info

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