Prison Break

New Fox drama provides an escape from reality | Gene Edward Veith

One of the few new shows to create buzz over the water cooler is Prison Break (Mondays, 9:00 ET, Fox).

It tells the story of a man who stages a crime that gets him sentenced to the same prison where his brother awaits execution for a crime he did not commit. That way he can break his brother out. It helps that the hero is one of the designers of the prison, whose blueprints he has tattooed on his body. Thickening the plot is a government conspiracy, headed by an evil female vice president.

With its external mystery ("What is the vice president trying to cover up?") and the internal suspense ("How are these guys going to break out of this maximum security prison?"), the show can certainly suck viewers in. If, that is, they can suspend disbelief. (This middle-class white guy takes over the prison subculture rather easily.)

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