I’ve been a Prison Break apologist for awhile now. The outlandish situations, and semi-formulaic episodes have always provided for intense entertainment. They always managed to keep the intensity with each episode. But I feel that may be changing.

In the last 2 weeks, I’ve come to realize that Prison Break may be “jumping the shark”. Even though back in season 1 the creators announced the formula of ‘break out of prison’ for season 1, ‘on the run’ for season 2, and ‘back in prison’ for season 3, it seems as if this season is being made up as they go along. It’s hard to believe that Michael can have such magic ideas only spending a few weeks in a Sona, when he prepared so much for the original escape in season 1. Each week, ideas are born and defeated, and we end up where we left off.

All last season, I forgave Wentworth Miller leaving his long sleeve shirt on while sweating, and other characters were going shirtless from the heat. Putting on the tattoos is a long, laborious process, and he doesn’t want to go through that for every episode. But last week, he was in “the box”. A place where prisoners die from heat exhaustion…and he left the shirt on! That took me out of the show completely.

Is Prison Break broke?