Why do you like Prison Break? Why is it so famous?

Question

as an English teacher, I'd like to work on Prison Break with my students who are fascinated by the show, so give me your opinion and do not hesitate to write why you like or don't like this tv drama...Thank you

Answer 1

The show is total crap, per real inmates and real cops. But like Miami Vice in my era, it was entertainment.

My husband has been in federal prison for 26 years, so I know what real prison is like. My problem with the show is that it glamourizes prison to young people, making prison trendy, whereas prison is really hell on earth.

The show gets a lot of press, and I'm dismayed to see youthful commentary like "Oh wow, Brittany, he is like so cool, ya know?" "Ohmigod, Tiff, he is hot. Should I get a tatto like that, I mean, really, it would be so cool to have barb wire around my arm!" During a recent shopping expedition, I saw that Old Navy now carries a line of women's shirts that have prisoner's numbers on them. By all means, let's wear numbers and pretend we are prisoners, because prison is so cool...

I saw a young man on a 4-year drug charge die after being gang-raped at a prison that had one doctor for 2000 inmates. I knew an elderly diabetic man who died in his wheelchair outside the medical unit waiting for assistance. If you have a heart attack in a federal prison, you are dead. You get up when they tell you, you eat when they tell you, you go outside if they let you, you go to bed when they tell you, you travel between units only when or if they let you.

They might hold your mail for two weeks before releasing it, making you miss an important court deadline. They held a man's parole hearing in a storage room in their medical unit. During visitation, sometimes your wife has to drag your screaming daughter or son out of your arms when it's time to say goodbye. In my husband's case, I was not able to go tell him in person that our oldest son had died. I had to tell him via a phone call. Despite raising the money for a federal marshall's escort, he was still not allowed to attend the funeral.

THAT is reality in prison. And along with millions of families of prisoners who live like this, THAT is why I can't stand the show.

Answer 2

In 1756 Italian author Giacomo Casanova famously controlled to flee from one of the vital comfortable prisons of his time: the Doge's Palace. The Great Escape, seventy six Allied POWs (exceptionally Commonwealth airmen) escaped from Stalag Luft III in the course of World War Two. 50 of the escaped POWs had been rounded up and shot by way of the Gestapo, whilst most effective three succeeded in attaining impartial territories. In 1984, six dying row inmates escaped Mecklenburg Correctional Center, making it the most important mass dying row break out in American historical past. All had been recaptured inside 18 days, and all six guys might finally be achieved. The last executon took situation in 1996. Claude Dallas escaped from a jail in Idaho in 1986 and spent a 12 months at the run. Danny Ray Horning escaped from the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona on May 12, 1992, and a fifty five-day manhunt ensued as Horning fled the professionals. The pursuit ended on July five, 1992, close Sedona, Arizona. Horning led professionals 1000s of miles via the Arizona wasteland, and dedicated countless kidnappings in the course of the manhunt. 1996, August. Englishman David McMillan escapes from Thailand’s Klong Prem jail – frequently referred to as the Bangkok Hilton – whilst looking forward to trial on drug expenditures. McMillan reduce the bars of his shared telephone, scaled 4 partitions earlier than shedding over the electrified outer wall making use of a bamboo ladder, after which skirted the moat whilst hiding his face below an umbrella from the jail manufacturing unit. The holiday-out defined in ESCAPE (released 2007).

Answer 3

. i have been intrigued by prison shows for YEARS ,, I don't know why but as a teenager many years ago i liked the "bad boys" thankfully i out grew that faze,,... I like to think the reason we like the show is that all the guys to escape isn't that isn't bad and we are hoping that they will get away ,,,except for that rotten T-Bag,,If you haven't seen it from the beginning rent the DVD and catch up on whats been going on,,, your students will love the idea that they have a cool teacher,,, P.S sorry professor about my bad grammar and punctuation.! graduated 30 years ago and too much time on PC lingo

Answer 4

What is not to like? all the non stop action and twists and turns and the governmental corruption ? I love this show it shows how really crooked our government can be . I hope all or most of them get away from this because now I wonder how many of them really did what the court said they did ? It is so cool. good luck and god bless. Happy Thanksgiving.

Answer 5

I like the show so much, because it has many twists. Every episode has a lot to offer. What makes it so intrigung is that it covers alot of secrets which keeps you hanging till the end.

Answer 6

Besides the nonstop action it is almost like an adrenaline rush to see what happens next. Its been as addictive as 24. Plus Lincoln and his brother Michael aren't bad to look at.