breakI find it strange that on Saturday, the day I'm supposed to have all to myself, I still wake up in time to make it into the office at the appropriate week day time. Apparently I am well rested and have a good sleep schedule. Although I think I would prefer the decadence of sleeping a few hours later.
I am getting a cold. I blame my husband, he had it first.
So, embarassing confession. I have recently discovered a television show called "Prison Break" and I am now, spending my early Saturday morning obsessively prowling the internet to try and find full episodes that I can watch. I foolishly netflixed the show rather than purchasing the entire DVD package, so I was left at a loss last night when the episodes on the DVD ran out and I was desperate to find out what else happens.
I get like this with TV shows. I know its a totally lame medium, but there is something about the serialized delivery of plot that really works for me, that makes it easy to come back. I begin to care about the people in the show, intrigued with what is going to happen next and really want to see what happens for their own good. It's bizarre, they become real to me.
Prison Break is the new obsession. I am pretty hooked on the story. The show focuses on two brothers, one of which is on death row for a murder he didn't commit. So the other brother, in a dramatic show of filial loyalty, gets himself thrown into the same prison (which, consequently, he helped design because he is a structural engineer) with the plan to break them out and disappear into South America, never to be heard from again. Michael is kind of a strange mix of a total bad ass, my grandpa, and Macgyver. He is able to do things mechanically that are quite impressive, he can handle himself in a prison riot (even managing to save the day) and is a total bad ass. I would've totally fallen for him in college, mostly because he wouldn't be interested at all in anyone falling for him. Or falling for anyone himself, is probably a better way to put it.
This of course, involves a complicated back story which I won't get into here, and, of course, things get complicated once actually in the prison. The circle of escapees widen as life happens, and then a nice little twist gets thrown in when Michael and the prison Doctor, Sarah, begin to have feelings for each other.
Beyond Macgyver comparisons, Michael is an interesting character. He seems cold and distant, but then he comes up with these lines that just hit you in the stomache and make you realize that he has a lot happening emotionally that he just chooses not to share. Which is completely appealing and how I want to be. For example, with Michael and Sarah, the Doctor. He is seeing her fairly regularly because he needs insulin, because he is diabetic (he isn't, actually, but regular access to the infirmary is crucial to the plan) and flirtation develops to the point where they actually talk about their attraction to each other. And then Michael needs the key to the infirmary to finish their escape plan, the key that Sarah has in her pocket when he goes for his shot. After taking about half an hour to roll his shirt up, Michael leans in and kisses her, and you think, "Oh, he is kissing her to distract her while he lifts the keys from her," but the camera quickly deflects that allusion as it does an insert shot of her pocket with the keys still in it. He doesn't take the key, instead he asks her to wait for him, and says "there will be a time when there won't be these walls, when we won't be in this place,"in a way that makes you understand Wentworth Miller's plan in playing him so cold.
I feel fairly confident that they are going to get out of the prison, but I don't know how they are going to get out of the prison, and I doubt very much that it will go smoothly. I am pretty excited to see how it happens, but I am proud to say that I am going to wait until the DVD arrives from Netflix, rather than rush out and purchase the episodes on itunes.
Because I have more important things in my life than TV.
Right?
