Prison Break Season 3 is looking good

Prison Break has always the television equivalent of a popcorn movie. You know there is plot holes and things that sometimes don't make sense, but the story is told at such a rapid pace and so much is going on that you just find yourself going along for the ride. Masterpiece Theatre is most certainly isn't, but even with its flaws, I still find it royally entertaining and unlike The O.C., it has managed to keep my interest coming into its third season.

If you have Tivo'd the season premiere or you are waiting to watch the second season on DVD, I think this is a good post to skip as I will be discussing some of the plot points that got us all to moment in time.

At the close of last season Michael Scofield, the mastermind behind a daring escape from Fox River penitentiary, found himself captured in Panama and thrown inside a rather sinister institution called Sona. Along with Scofield, we also discover that Agent Mahone, the corrupt and drug-addicted FBI agent who had pursued the convicts throughout the season, and former Fox River guard turned bounty hunter Brad Bellick have also found themselves incarcerated at that very same prison. Meanwhile, Michael's brother, Lincoln Burrows, found himself a free man after his convictions for crimes he didn't commit were overturned when new evidence came to light, so in a stunning reverse of the beginning of the series, Michael is now in jail and it is up to Lincoln to get him out.

As the season opens, we get a far better taste of how bad Sona is, as the above character watch from within a crowd a fight to the death in the open courtyard of the prison in the middle of a rain-soaked night. The following day, the body of the loser still sits in the center of the courtyard, a signal that this place is light years away from the rigid discipline of the American justice system. It is later revealed that those in Sona are the worst of the worst, and that the year before Scofield had arrived, the prisoners had rioted so badly that the guards pulled out to the perimeter of the facility, allowing the prisoners to fill the power vacuum from within and establish its own disciplinary system under a single leader.

Of course, Scofield's notoriety makes him a potential rival for said leadership, so it becomes clear that Sona will likely not be kind to him. Through some twists, it becomes clear that once again he is going to have to use his talents to escape from the facility, which will be a much tougher task seeing as he hasn't had an opportunity to prepare for this particular challenge, so it will be interesting to see how he improvises.

There are still so many unanswered questions, and knowing Prison Break, I have a feeling that those answers are going to be unexpected. I am looking forward to seeing where this season is going to end up.

Tags: prison break, fox, michael scofield, season 3, panama, sona, lincoln burrows, the o.c., masterpiece theatre, mahone, wentworth miller, william fichtner, brad bellick