7/29/2023 0 Comments Prison breakWhat does that even mean? So to counter Jack Bauer, you’re going to make the hero a young, pleasant, pacifist? And it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the show when A) you’re replacing your iconic lead in the first place and B) you’re specifically saying you want someone as different from the original hero as possible. And even with him, the show struggled in many of its seasons, so without him? It doesn’t have a prayer.įor as much as I’d like to see a young black guy leading an action-heavy network show, replacing perhaps the most celebrated action hero in TV history is being set up for failure. Bauer is the key ingredient the show just can’t exist without. Simply keeping the real-time format and looming terrorist threat and name-dropping CTU and having a little ticking clock with those trademark beeps is not enough to effectively make a new season of 24. As 24 tried to keep topping itself, we started to see ludicrous plotlines like in season 4, where suddenly filling out 24 episodes with a single terrorist plot was too hard, so they had to cram about five separate terror plots into the course of 24 hours, taking 24 from charmingly implausible to outright idiotic. While the real-time format of the show was certainly a unique gimmick that caught the attention of viewers in early seasons, it often became a hindrance more than a help as time went on. He is the show, yet somehow the producers and the network seem to believe that it’s what, the real-time format and one-day terrorist plot that’s the central reason the show works? I can’t even think of an appropriate comparison, because there literally is no better example to illustrate how stupid this is. Making a new season of 24 without Jack Bauer is like…making a new season of 24 without Jack Bauer. Do I really even need to say it? There is no 24 without Jack Bauer. It’s hard to picture any way this doesn’t end up being unmemorable at best, or downright bad at worst.Īnd god, 24. Even if that sounds like a bad idea, an alternative that has Michael and his gang out of prison doing god knows what is probably worse, judging by the truly terrible seasons of the show that weren’t prison-centric. What the hell is going to happen in a new season of Prison Break? Presumably they’ll be locked up in jail for a third time, and have nine episodes to execute some sort of new escape plan, sans-tattoo map, most likely. Yet no one paid attention to the resurrection, because it hadn’t changed what ailed it. The problem is that if Prison Break went steeply downhill after season one, why would a revamped season five suddenly be any better? We saw this exact same situation recently with Heroes: Reborn, another show which very clearly peaked in season one, and squandered its potential thereafter. Some kind of master plan to keep his surviving loved ones “safe” while still being able to roam around the world breaking in and out of places. Either this is going to involve some kind of serious ret-conning, simply ignoring that the death ever occurred, or, more likely, they’re going to reveal that Michael faked his tumor and his death for….reasons. The network is already talking about how they’re going to address the issue of Michael’s death, outright saying that he isn’t dead. The series ends quite abruptly with Michael dying of brain cancer, and the audience was left wondering just what the hell happened to the series. The fourth season turned the show into some kind of weird spy drama where Michael and his team’s skills were used to start breaking into places to steal things, rather than out. Season three realized it had to return to some vague semblance of its former self and incarcerated most of the main cast inside a Panamanian jail, where they had to concoct a new escape plan. Season two was spent almost entirely on the run. The problem, however, was once you escape prison in a show called “ Prison Break,” what exactly is supposed to happen?įrom there, the show quickly dissolved into utter insanity. Season one is perfect binge material.īut in this case, a good show meant great ratings, and season one was extended to a full order, indicated by a hard cut in Michael’s plan which required another eight episodes or so of reworking before the escape was finally on. Watching Michael’s master plan unfold was hypnotic and addicting, and it’s easy to see why it’s doing well in the age of Netflix. The show was not procedural, a rarity for network TV, and was pretty damn smart compared to its competition. It was tailor-made for a tight, one-season run, where Michael Scofield, tattooed with the coded layout of the prison, tried to break his innocent brother out of jail, encountering all sorts of scumbags and problems along the way. Prison Break was a show ruined by its own success.
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