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The pilot of Prison Break aired just before I went back to school last summer. I saw the advertisements all over the internet and on Global TV. My cable package does not include Fox so Global TV was the Canadian network that aired it. To me the series trailers looked fantastic but I always thought to myself and wondered how a series can be made about people breaking out of jail. It turns out that it is possible and can also be done in a dramatic and well produced fashion. After seeing the commercials all summer I jotted a little note down which told myself to “WATCH PRISON BREAK”. It turned out that I totally forgot about the show until I heard somebody on my hockey team talking about it. I quickly remembered about the show and was eager to get home and download all of the episodes. It turned out that I only missed six. I used my bit torrent client, torrent, to download them. The second they finished I watched the series and was hooked. I watched all six in the one night. I got home the next day and found out the Prison Break was on Monday nights. I was in luck, it was Monday. After watching episode 5 I knew that I had a new addiction. I watched it every Monday until episode 13 where the series took a break. Fox thought that the show would not be a success so they only created 13 episodes. After seeing the major success they had to get in gear and crank out more to make a full season. It was announced in early 2006 that new episodes would begin airing on March 20, 2006. The unfortunate part about this was that I was in Japan from March 18 - April 2; I would have to miss the first two. I was so eager to see the new episodes in Japan that I went into a store and downloaded a copy of the first episode. The connection I was using was like 50 MB/s so it downloaded in a few minutes. I began to watch the episode but my group was about to leave and my friends didn’t really want to stay and watch Prison Break on a demo model Macbook Pro. When I finally got home from Japan I got the latest ones and I was set. I was back in the groove.

I don’t really want to ruin the series for anybody so I will just do an overview.

Michael Scofield, a structural engineer, attempts to rob a bank in order to get incarcerated at Fox River State Penitentiary, where his brother Lincoln Burrows, accused of murdering the Vice President’s brother, is scheduled to be executed. At Fox River, Michael approaches a number of inmates, all of whom play an important role in his plan to free his brother from the inside. Meanwhile, agents Kellerman and Hale are determined to make sure the execution goes through as planned.

Season one ends in a dramatic fashion and tomorrow’s episode will be extremely good. If you have not watched the first season I suggest that you purchase the DVD set.