So, I started watching Prison Break on Fox in late 2005. The show was based upon this idea that the younger brother of a man who was wrongfully convicted of killing the brother of the Vice President of the US was so desperate to break his older brother out of jail that he came up with a plan for both of them to escape and got himself put into the same prison.

Long sentence, but good plot. So, I watched and enjoyed the show. It moved fast, there was plenty of action and it was (for the most part) well acted. Wentworth Miller, Robert Knepper and Sarah Wayne Callies are far and away the best reasons to watch the show. The show was a big hit when it first came on the air (despite some reluctance by Fox to advertise the show) and Fox added 9 more episodes to the initial 13 that they purchased, and here is where the trouble starts… Season two started with them having made their way out of the prison and the show has gone from plausible to downright awful. I hear that the show is officially supposed to end after season three – but it should have ended after the initial season and perhaps Fox could have really made some “hay” with people about their cutting-edge philosophy with this show. Instead we see them doing what networks always do – taking a good show and making it try to last as long as possible with no regard for creative flow or content.

After the prisoners got out we’re subjected to story lines and plot points that are completely ridiculous. They have episodes that contain story lines that we never see again – for no apparent reason. For example – the older brothers wife is killed by the FBI right in front of his son and his son has pictures on a cell phone of the agent who killed her as well as knowing the location of an FBI agent (or his body anyway) in a well. That whole part of the story has been dropped completely. Just gone.

It’s been VERY frustrating to like a show SO much in one season and completely feel cheated the next. I’ve officially removed Prison Break from my Season Pass schedule on my TV and I have vowed to not watch it again. Fox screwed me over on X-Files, then on Firefly and now on this. And they wonder why HBO wins awards year after year for their shows! Idiots. Thanks for letting me have more room on my DVR for good shows like Veronica Mars, Rome, 24 and Battlestar Galactica.