Prison Break Will Never Ever Ever Ever Ever Die
In 2005 Fox was having a renaissance period for intense action dramas — 24 was at its peak and Prison Break debuted its amazing first season. Michael Scofield’s brother has been wrongly convicted of murder; Scofield plans to break him out using a map of the prison grounds he tattooed all over his body. The season is full of shocking twists and turns, but by the end, the pair do succeed in breaking out. Then the show had to keep going. If Prison Break had been thought up today, it would’ve been a streaming show and the small length it was meant to be. But since this was 2000s network television, the story would only be over once Fox said it was. There was a season of the brothers running from the law, then a season where Scofield wound up locked inside a DIFFERENT prison, then a fourth season of something else (I had stopped caring by that point). The show “wrapped up” with a direct to DVD movie called