#Prison break full episodes season 3 series

Again, hints of something more profound in Prison Break, a potential political commentary never capitalized on. He espouses equality among the inmates, and eye-for-an-eye justice for all, but rules with a dictatorial ruthlessness that completely disregards his own laws. Only the iron will of Lechero (the awesomely named Robert Wisdom), formerly the most ruthless and infamous crime lord in Panama, keeps the place from descending into complete chaos. Inside the criminals - too violent to be ruled by authorities - rule themselves, through brutality and murder. Sona Prison has been given over to the inmates - the military maintains a tight perimeter around it, shooting anyone outside the walls on sight. Well, a bunch of ruthless cons - murderers, rapists, drug lords, the worst of the worst - all holed up in a concrete sweat box in Panama. But if itвЂ™s not there, if IвЂ™m not seeing an eternal, hopeless quest for redemption, what then, am I left with? It might not necessarily be there, in the script, but itвЂ™s visible nonetheless. ItвЂ™s just a bare hint of depth in a show thatвЂs generally all surface, a testament to Wentworth MillerвЂ™s soulful portrayal. Like maybe heвЂ™s actually starting to believe he is becoming the hardened con the world thinks he is maybe he is paying for sins that neither he, nor his brother, ever committed maybe heвЂ™ll never truly вЂњget outвЂќ. It would be enough to drive anyone to despair, or at least resignation to oneвЂ™s fate.ДЄnd indeed thereвЂ™s a noticeable pall of both despair and resignation in Scofield this season, a wearing down of his normally steely resolve and razor sharp intelligence as both the pressure from inside the jail and outside mount. His hopelessness would be the same as the showвЂ™s, condemned to loop around on itself forever. The show could run on like this, presumably forever.Д«ut then I thought, maybe Season 3 is much cleverer than IвЂ™d first thought, and the show was playing with the genre and the audience, taking it up to some sort of meta-level where Michael Scofield is caught in this eternal recurrence of having to devise and execute impossible plans to break out of prisons that heвЂ™ll inevitably just end up right back in.

Endlessly repeating cycles of tension and release, being imprisoned and being on the run. LetвЂ™s see them get out of this one!вЂќ and then setting it on autopilot. You can imagine them saying вЂњOh, I know! WeвЂ™ll just throw them all in an even more dire and impregnable concrete box. But then maybe the writers hit a wall, just resigning themselves to the inevitable, to a lack of imagination, giving in to the exhaustion of the hectic second season. It was loud, dumb, but a lot of fun.ДЄnd with so many narrative and characters thrown up in the air as Season 2 wound down, I thought that Season 3 would continue the on-the-run juggling act for a bit longer. But it has, or had, enough interesting tweaks on the вЂњjail breakвЂќ tradition to keep you hooked from week to week, a certain knowing disregard for even the barest hint of believability, but delivered with an entirely straight face. No one could accuse Prison Break of breaking the mold - if anything it reinforces it. There has to be more than one prison to break out of, doesnвЂ™t there? ItвЂ™s genre television at its most blatantly obvious, with all the formal and narrative strictures that necessitates. I guess thereвЂ™s a certain inevitability embedded in the showвЂ™s title that a critical viewer must just accept. But now here I am, watching and reviewing Season Three, loving every overheated, ludicrous moment of it, and wondering why I ever gave it up. Prison Break, a show I enjoyed immensely for a good season and a half, was finally broken. I also vowed never to watch the show again.

#Prison break full episodes season 3 series

So when just about every name character left alive did in fact end up, through a series of machinations and coincidences too ridiculous to recount, in a squalid, lethal, maximum security Panamanian prison, I was not at all surprised. It would be a cheap and lazy solution, sure, but also the most logical move, given the showвЂ™s title вЂ“ but still cheap. As off-the-rails and stupidly brash as the show had been for two seasons, I didnвЂ™t think it would have the gall to go through all the trouble of busting Scofield et al out, just to throw them back in. When I half-jokingly wondered aloud, while watching the second season of Prison Break, whether Michael Scofield and Company would just end up back in a different prison after a season on the run, I didnвЂ™t know that the showвЂ™s writers a) were listening to me and b) actually taking me seriously.