I finally was able to watch The Final Break. The movie to end this series was as many have already said much better than the series finale. This had so many twists and turns that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Only the first season tops this movie.

I finally was able to watch The Final Break. The movie to end this series was as many have already said much better than the series finale. This had so many twists and turns that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Only the first season tops this movie.

Agreed...

I never thought they could equal the awesomeness of the first season, but WOW, I was very surprised. It had all the ingredients that made the first season so great.

I'm so happy that some of my favorite shows this past year have had some great series finale like e.g. The Shield (best ending EVER). Hopefully the Lost series finale ends on a good note.

I have put The Final Break in my Blockbuster queue, although it won't be released until July 21. So far it's shown as only being available on DVD but I hope they will add a BD version before the release date.

FOX is a fool for not showing this here.

$$$$$

I know I know, but do commercials pay the bills for TV series?

I'm a little late here but we finally finished PB a couple nights ago.

My mother really hated the ending regarding Michael. Like a lot of us, we hated that whole tumor story line and sure I wish they didn't do that. What was the need? They're giving us everyone else being ok. Why not Michael? They just didn't want to give the audience everything. It was cool seeing Alex and his old partner there.

I too kept expecting Gretchen popping in surprising us somehow. What could have filled Christina Scofield with so much hatred for Lincoln? Was that the brainwashing? Man.

It was a very entertaining finale.

However this season as whole got too silly after Self turned on them. The scylla story was also just too weak to begin with.

It was a very entertaining series.

^Locate and watch The Final Break and you will determine that it wasn't the tumor that actually killed Michael and you will also be provided with another dose of Gretchen.:D

Boy, could I make a good joke out of the end part of the sentence in that spoiler.

From Fredfa's "Hot Off The Press" thread at the top of the 'HDTV Programming' page:

TV Notes
'Heroes' casts new villain
Robert Knepper joins NBC drama in fourth season
By Nellie Andreeva, The Hollywood Reporter - June 3rd, 2009

Robert Knepper continues his villainous streak.

Coming off a role as bad guy Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell on Fox's "Prison Break," Knepper has been tapped as the new lead villain on NBC's "Heroes" next season.

In at least six episodes of the series' fourth season, Knepper will play Samuel, a Jim Jones type -- charismatic but evil, with a twisted sense of humor -- who will veer into the lives of all heroes. The character had been referred to as "Carnival Barker" in the series breakdown released last month.

"Heroes" is slated to return in the fall for a "Lost"-style all-original run in a new time slot at 8 p.m. on Mondays. The sci-fi drama -- which enjoys a strong online following -- will share its time period with another fan favorite, "Chuck," which will take over in midseason.

Production on the UMS-produced "Heroes" is scheduled to begin later this week.

Knepper is perhaps best known for playing a character on "Prison Break" that viewers loved to hate -- T-Bag, a murderer, rapist and supremacist. On the bigscreen, he was most recently seen in "Transporter 3" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

Knepper is repped by Fortitude, D/F Management and attorney Todd Rubenstein.

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/will-ferrell-man-vs-wild-record-ratings.html

Hmmm.... do I watch Heroes just to see T-bag?

Boy, could I make a good joke out of the end part of the sentence in that spoiler.

:)

I never expected to see T-Bag again. But here we are ... :D

TV Review
'Breakout Kings' (A&E)
Another escapist show from 'Prison Break' guys
By Ellen Gray, Philadelphia Daily Newsl - March 3rd, 2011

In four seasons on Fox, you'd think "Prison Break" had exhausted the possibilities of escapist entertainment.

I don't care how gorgeous Wentworth Miller is: How many times can the same characters break out (or into) well-fortified facilities using only items found around your average Big House before viewers' eyes start to roll back in their heads?

Turns out, though, that there are still stories to be told about too-early paroles - and former "Break" writers Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora figured out a way to tell them. All they needed was to be a little less original.

Like "It Takes a Thief" and USA's "White Collar," "Breakout Kings," which premieres Sunday on A&E, is about convicts who work with law enforcement in exchange for a break on their sentences.

The hook? At some point, all have demonstrated enough ability as escape artists that the U.S. marshals have decided they might be useful in tracking fugitives.

If you can make that leap, then you may not be bothered by the disappearance of one of the convicts after the pilot. (Originally made for Fox, which passed on the project, it was ordered to series by A&E.)

Serinda Swan joins the "Kings" in later episodes, and though she and Nicole Steinwedell, the actress in the pilot, look a lot alike, they're playing different characters with entirely different back stories.

Which is too bad, because Steinwedell's character was nicknamed Philly.

A&E assures me all will be explained in the March 13 episode, which wasn't ready in time for screening.

Staying on after tonight: Jimmi Simpson ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") as an imprisoned behavioral expert with a gambling problem and Malcolm Goodwin as Shea Daniels, a high-level gang-banger.

On the supposedly law-abiding side, we have the odd-couple pairing of veteran U.S. marshals Charles Duchamp (Laz Alonso) and Ray Zancanelli ("The Wire's" Domenick Lombardozzi), who are meant to be keeping a close eye on their new partners, lest they, too, escape.

Rounding out the cast: Julianne Simms (Brooke Nevin), who fills the now practically mandatory role of Girl Who Knows How to Work the Laptop.

Your tax dollars at work, folks.

Little of this stands up to close scrutiny, but there's a nice twist at the end of the pilot, and it looks as if every episode will begin with a fiendishly clever prison break by someone viewers might actually hope to see caught.

"You have to have really bad, bad guys or there's just not stakes from the beginning of the episode. At the same time, each week it can't be, you know, the Son of Sam who is breaking out of prison. It will get repetitive," Santora told reporters in January.

After four years of trying to keep Michael Scofield and his not-so-merry band on the run, Olmstead said he'd been attracted to a format that allowed for closed-ended episodes.

Plus, he and Santora "love law-breaking. So we just wanted to kind of have fun on the show and keep on working together."

Prison breaks offer something most traditional procedurals don't, he said, starting with "the momentum of storytelling that you get when you have a fugitive on the run, as opposed to a dead body where there's a little bit more time to find that person because that dead body is not going anywhere."

In "Breakout Kings," "everybody is running from something," he said.

Best reason for "Prison Break" fans to stick with "Kings" for a few weeks, at least?

T-Bag.

Robert Knepper, who played the most terrifyingly twisted of Michael Scofield's accomplices (and who recently popped up on Showtime's "Shameless"), will reprise the role of Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the March 20 episode.

"T-Bag breaks out of Fox River Prison, and our guys chase him," Santora said.

Now that makes sense.

BREAKOUT KINGS
10 p.m. Sunday, A&E.

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ellen_gray/20110303_Ellen_Gray__Another_escapist_show_from__quot_Prison _Break_quot__guys.html

Great episode. Love how they kept the the string on Prison Break in tact with TeaBag.