Saturday, May 28, 2011
Prison Break
The word of a thief and liar is worse than useless. Mercy is a dangerous thing to practice on a cellblock.
This is a series based on High Concept precepts. The first is that a brother with a brilliant promising career would have the plans of a prison tattooed over his entire body and then get himself committed to that prison for the sake of his brother. The second is that he could plan a prison break known to a large group of inmates without getting caught. The third is that a man on death row weeks from being terminated would be let out to mingle with the general population.
Without being as graphic as other prison dramas out there the series still presents the usual fodder for such series: drugs, corruption, brutality, rape, and murder. It soon becomes clear that the warders are every bit as much in prison as the inmates. It is however the quality of the acting and our identification with Wentworth Miller and his character that carries one along and allows the viewer to buy in.
This is a series based on High Concept precepts. The first is that a brother with a brilliant promising career would have the plans of a prison tattooed over his entire body and then get himself committed to that prison for the sake of his brother. The second is that he could plan a prison break known to a large group of inmates without getting caught. The third is that a man on death row weeks from being terminated would be let out to mingle with the general population.
Without being as graphic as other prison dramas out there the series still presents the usual fodder for such series: drugs, corruption, brutality, rape, and murder. It soon becomes clear that the warders are every bit as much in prison as the inmates. It is however the quality of the acting and our identification with Wentworth Miller and his character that carries one along and allows the viewer to buy in.
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