Another blog entry about telly?
I have been off work for two days so have been sitting down, eating, growing a beard and catching up on telly shit. Today’s new show is ‘Prison Break’ which premiered in America the other night and has been bought by (Channel) Five to be shown over here in January. Basic plot: Man’s brother is allegedly framed for a big crime and gets put on death row, man decides to get himself put into the very same high security jail as brother so he can break him out, which he can somehow do because he pretends to be diabetic, had a hand in the design of the prison and has tattooed loads of blueprinty things (which I can’t actually understand) onto his body. It’s very silly, fast, action-packed and wants to be ’24′ but it is like ‘Oz’ without the bum rapes meets ‘Prisoner: Cell Block H’ mixed with all the other contemporary American dramas that don’t require much concentration. I watched the first two episodes and didn’t really like it. It’s not awful or anything but just not enough of my kind of thing to invest an hour every week for. But then I tend to need a bit more quirkiness, surreal weirdness, dark sarcasm or heavy psychological shit to keep watching new things. The show did great in America , with over 18 million viewers giving Fox Network better ratings than they had hoped for. I shall carry on with my ‘Six Feet Under’ marathon, which turned into ‘Dead Like Me’ for a bit today and alarmed me.
It’s another mean and moody ensemble cast photo opportunity!
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