Story flaws compensated by superb acting and masterful suspense
I must confess. In order to get inside the Fox River Penitentiary I had to steal Season 1 on blu-ray from Amazon.com (at $40+"smuggling" I think it was a steal). The jury was anonymous: I was sentenced to 22 episodes of one of the best TV shows I have ever seen. During most of the sentence I was chained to my TV, deprived of sleep and frantically planned the escape for the crime I didn't commit.

Now, with two more terms behind me, including the equally gripping, "edge-of-my-sofa", Season 2 (rented on DVD) I can reflect on Season 3 as being a tad weaker then the first two. But fear not, the acting and plot is still superb!

The Season 3 is probably the bloodiest of all and you will be greeted with an ample amount of dead bodies. The action revolves around yet another escape from the "con-operated", "you fight or you die" prison SONA. From the onset and up to the very end the viewers are thrown into the cruel and merciless "every man (and woman) for himself" zone, which even creates a few cracks between Michael and Linc.

Unlike Season 1, where more often then not the prisoners had to stick together to complete the mission, in Season 3 all hell breaks loose and it serves the show beautifully, elevating it to another level. Some may not like this change but I found it quite appropriate and fresh. Unfortunately, there are quite a few weak spots in the story (I trust you will discover these by yourself), which make it somewhat less believable than Season 1 and 2.

The Season 3 starts kind of slow (the first 4 episodes or so) but then kicks into another gear and keeps you jumping out of your seat and begging for more. Needless to say, I want my Season 2 and 4 on blu-ray and I want it now!

Dragged out too long, but still suspenseful

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Many of the episodes in this season seemed to drag on and on with many foiled plans, rain delays, and other obvious procrastination devices. It made Michael's breakout plan for Sona take a lot longer than it should have.
That said, there are still many suspenseful moments in this season, mostly involving the hostages and of course including the various prisoners and their would-be helpers on the outside. Former guard Bellick had a very rough time of it, while the cunning Teabag found ways to work the system from the inside. Scofield and Link put their collective heads together to formulate constantly-changing maneuvers, while Luchero made things tough for those inside Sona. And then there was the mysterious Whistler, a prisoner who was so valuable to a certain company that they would stop at nothing to get him out alive.
And did Sarah really die? Link thinks so, but what was really in that box? LJ says he heard her die, but he never saw it. This, of course, leaves Michael to go on a mission of his own at the end of the season, trying to get revenge or find out what really happened.

Nowhere near as good.
First off there are only 13 episodes in this pack which I did'nt realise until I had purchased and yet the price does not reflect this.

The show is still good although I would have expected it to be more gritty with the characters imprisoned in Panama.

3 stars overall.

Prison Break
I'm a Prison Break fan. I can't go without missing an episode. I have to see them all.

Not at all what I expected.
I'll start by saying that Prison Break Season 1 is near perfect, one of my all time favorite Tv Series. Season 2 was really good, not as good as Season 1 but really good

Then came Season 3...
I couldn't wait to watch season 3, then as I began to watch the episodes my heart was broken and it was a complete let down.

Why you ask?, Well it seems that the writers ran out of ideas so they put MichaeL again in prison ( which is not that bad, hence the title Prison Break ). But this time you don't care about the other prisoners,as you did in Season 1 and 2, there's not chemistry between them.

His brother, Link, on the other hand is outside the prison and is too stupid to do anything right to try to solve the problem( let's call it that so I don't give much away), and when he almost solves the problem he does not have the b#$% to do it!!

On top of that,we never see some characters that we were hoping to see, and then learn that they were "removed" from the series.

My advice buy Season 1 and 2, they are just great!, and in the last chapter of season 2 change the end a little bit and you'll have the perfect series.