Thereturn ofPrison Breakis so exhaustingly mediocre, I barely have energy to make jokes about it.
Prison Breakisnt worth much of anything, but it could have been.
you’re able to see the better show trying to escape its lock-up of bad ideas.
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And by better, I dont mean important.
I dont needPrison Breakto be Emmy-baiting prestige TV.
But I do need it to be a hoot.
Alas, the reboot hurts for hoots.
Not at first, though.
How did he get there?
What is he up to?
Is Michael really Michael?
All are questions that drive either some or all of the season.
Michaels maybe/maybe not identity theft is intriguing, and the actors take to their old parts with gusto.
Its all bazaars and squalid inner cities, byzantine passageways and road-blocked streets, shot through a burnt-sand filter.
Here,Prison Breakspirals into a depressing quagmire of Muslim stereotypes and over-simplified geopolitics.
In this regard, Fox really is peddling propaganda.
(A terrible episode ofThe X-Filesrevival trafficked in such stuff, too.)
One tries to string up the homosexuals in the prison.
The first 4 episodes are watchable enough thanks to the cast, and its possiblePrison Breakcould finish strong.
Yet I cant imagine anyone except the most die-hard ofPrison Breakfans sticking around to find out.
Theres just too much good TV out there thats more deserving of your attention.
Why waste it on a creatively dim enterprise of middling pleasures and demeaning effect?
Sorry, fans, butPrison Breakshould have stayed locked up.C-
Prison Breakreturns Tuesday, April 4 at 9 p.m.
