Fox jumpstarts the fall season with this 2-hour premiere of the show it's hoping will be its next 24.
Lincoln Burrows is in prison, due to be executed in a month for murdering the Vice President's brother. Lincoln is, of course, innocent, having been set up as part of a high-reaching conspiracy (there are at least a few Secret Service officers involved).
His brother, Michael Scofield, robs a bank in order to get himself into the same prison, planning to break himself and his brother out before the execution. For you see, Michael is a structural engineer, and worked on the recent upgrade of some of this prison's facilities. He's had full access to the blueprints; in fact, he has them cleverly disguised in the full-torso tattoo he's wearing.
Are you laughing yet? This show doesn't require the mere suspension of disbelief; it asks you to hurl disbelief into the river and watch it drown. It's a shame, because the cast is fine, the show looks marvelous, and it tells its ludicrous story with great style and energy. I may give it another week or two, just to see if the story gets any less silly, but I'm not optimistic.
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