Breakout Kings Season 1 DVD

Michael Scofield is long dead, but his legacy lives on. A new generation of criminals are routinely thinking up ways of breaking out of Prison. To catch these dangerous criminals, US Marshal Charlie Duchamp (formerly of the Marshal's CPA, a desk job due to a congenital heart defect) resurrects an idea put in place by disgraced former Marshal Ray Zancanelli, using cons adept at escape to catch other cons. They bring in Shea Daniels, a former gang leader and smuggler, Lloyd Lowery a former child prodigy and criminal behaviorist and Erica Reed an expert tracker who learned everything she knows from her late Bounty Hunter father. Joining the team is Julianne Simms a former student at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center who excelled until she washed out due to various psychological disorders. Two other cons were chosen (Philly a con woman and Gunderson an expert tracker) but they were sent back to Prison after attempting escapes.

Breakout Kings is set in the same continuity as Prison Break, even going so far as to feature an episode in which T-Bag (Robert Knepper) escapes from Fox River to exact revenge on people who assaulted his ailing mother.

This show is perfect for fans of shows like "Prison Break", "White Collar" and "Leverage".

In the third eoipsode of this new show Breakout Kings, we are re-introduced to T-Bag--the most notorious character from a show that ended a few seasons ago called Prison Break. He has once again escaped from prison and the Breakout Kings are called upon to bring him back home, not before he has gone on a killing spree with shades of his criminal past exacting retribution for a crime that will begin to bring light to his upbringing. Overall another very solid episode and I am hoping that they continue to bring in characters from previous complementary shows as it is quite additive and exciting. The show continued to improve and will be interesting to see what they have next for us.

When people run, they have to be caught rather quickly. If they are not, then they are not going to be caught. that is why this team is needed and why the set-up in sweet. Bascilly, you catch people and you get a month knocked off your sentence and minium security on the bid. Try to run and it is doubled. And they are not playing around.

When The Breakout Kings started, I wasn't sure whether or not it would be worth watching. There are always pros and cons to shows like this, and the commercials made this show look like something you might not want to engage. TV has this thing about respinning the same old webs and trying to trap you in them, and making one see this seemed like making you watch old ideas. That was how the commercials looked, anyhow. When the show started, it showed just how different it wanted to be. There was witty banter that went past the old shows and there was engaging portions that featured both the cons and the people working with them. I liked the fact that there was a person that seemed like the was a criminal profiler mixed with a scew-up, and I liked the fact that the other people on the team worked to balance that out. I also liked the fact that there were terms to the cons being on the street, and the people worked to make them keep to that. If the team did not have something keeping them in check, I would have constantly wondered why they did not run. Seeing things from their eyes, it was more understandable.

Another thing the show looked at way the people that were being chansed. In some shows this would be the soft underbelly of a presentation, and you might wonder why they were out. This did not go that way, however, and it let you know that rather quickly. The level of violence was beautiful and I really engaged on that, and the people chasing it sealed it all in.

If you have yet to watch this, you are only falling behind. This is 5/5 material that connects on many levels, with stuff going from on show to the next and not all things revealing themselves. Even the people are not fixed here, and that works out well. Otherwise, it is just a shuffle of personas that really has no weight behind the threat of shipping people out.