Monday, September 17, 2007
(12:44 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Prison Break returns
After discussing one of the greatest shows ever this weekend, it seems appropriate to address Prison Break's improbable third season, which begins tonight. Hayley and I became addicted to this show during its first season, and I continued watching out of a combination of inertia and morbid fascination.The entire second half of the second season busily squandered the credibility it had gained when rogue Secret Service agent Kellerman shot rogue FBI agent Mahone, and when I saw that they were apparently going to extend it still further, I was frankly appalled. Yet now that Brad has alerted me that tonight is the season three premier, I am almost tempted to watch. After all, I have to get up early for class on Tuesdays, so it's not like I'm going to be going out on Monday nights -- and there are still so many loose threads! Will Sucre find his kidnapped wife? Will Scofield and Sarah ever see each other again? What the hell is going on with this weird conspiracy angle? What's up with the prison Scofield and Mahone are thrown into in the last episode? Will Mahone "get his life back"? Perhaps I should put it to a vote.
Since Brad also notes that I have tended to blog a lot about both Prison Break and House, I feel I should point out that apparently every member of the cast of Prison Break got their start as one of House's patients. I also saw "T-bag" on an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent last night.
Another actor who gets around a lot, without you necessarily noticing: Brian Cranston, best known as Hal of TV's Malcolm in the Middle. Watch for him, and suddenly he turns up everywhere. For example, in Little Miss Sunshine, he was the agent who failed to sell Greg Kinear's motivational program, and he was also the dentist with porn in the waiting room on an episode of Seinfeld.
